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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 3h

Maybe time to rewatch The Wire

Juno Rylee Schultz @junoryleejournalism.com · 1d

David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)

SHAPIRO: OK, so you've spent your career creating television without Al, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had had that tool to solve those thorny problems...
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: ...Or saying...
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: ...Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don't think Al can remotely challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you're trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you're stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an Al and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I'd rather put a gun in my mouth.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 6h

look, I don't want people going to jail for weed, but is there some compromise position that makes it so I don't have to smell weed 100% of the time in any populated part of the country?

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 6h

The number one thing I miss about being 20 is the ability to sleep like the dead for 12 straight hours.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 1d

we started using Starfish to look at data on our HPC. it's pretty amazing. getting a high level view of storage and being able to immediately see problems like, say, 60TB of old nextflow work directories floating around is fantastic.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 1d

"Oceans are a spectrum" is an assault on western civilization.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 4d

S: well just don't guess if there's a red storm trooper in it.
Me: stop, you're telling me too much! You just told me there's a red storm trooper!
S: I told you not to guess that! ....<sad voice> oh no, I spoiled it.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 4d

S: I'll never tell you what kind of Lego set it is.
Me: ...
S: I'll never tell you what kind of guys are in the star wars Lego set we got you.
Me: kid, you're not supposed to tell me this!

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 4d

Reminds me of 2020, with then 4yo:

S: we got you a present for your birthday, daddy!
Me: great! I can't wait to see what it is.
S: I'm never going to tell you what it is.
Me: very good. Keep it a surprise.

Philipp Bayer @philippbayer.bsky.social · 4d

I was wondering whether ChatGPT could identify species from drawings, but it said 'no for safety reasons, you can absolutely tell me context (for example: “this jellyfish is small, transparent, and causes Irukandji syndrome”)' -
guess what, I uploaded an Irukandji image

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 6d

I hear what you're probably saying and I could totally re-record the video and either not lie or just make it shorter and one day I probably will.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 6d

My worst trait as an instructor of online courses is my tendency to start demo videos with "this will be a short video about X" and then the demonstration is absolutely not short.

I console myself with the fact that students can see the progress bar and know that I am lying.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 6d

Can someone explain to me what is happening here

Buffalo Bills @buffalobillsnfl.bsky.social · 7d

Ornithology is all about the process.

#GoBills | #BillsMafia

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Ana Ignatieva @anaignatieva.bsky.social · 6d

Delighted that our paper about the distribution of genomic spans of clades/edges in genealogies (ARGs), and using this for detecting inversions and other SVs (and other phenomena that cause local disruption of recombination) is out in MBE academic.oup.com/mbe/article/... (1/n)

The Length of Haplotype Blocks and Signals of Structural Variation in Reconstructed Genealogies

Abstract. Recent breakthroughs have enabled the accurate inference of large-scale genealogies. Through modelling the impact of recombination on the correla

academic.oup.com

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 7d

I see nobody answered this question in 2023! Do we know now? I was able to download data from SRA last night, but will access continue?

Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 7d

RE NCBI and the shutdown: I was able to grab some SRA data I needed last night. Is there any reason to think that NCBI databases might become inaccessible?

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Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · 10d

Okay this one is actually good.

@TheDemocrats responds to a post about Trump's plan to impose a 100% tariff on foreign movies (whatever the hell that means) with a meme showing Totoro from Our Neighbor Totoro above text saying "Come and take it."

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 10d

UConn's CBC is offering a virtual workshop on ChIP and ATAC seq at the end of October.

UConn Computational Biology Core @cbcuconn.bsky.social · 14d

Join us Oct. 28–30 for a Virtual ChIP-Seq / ATAC-Seq Workshop! 🧬

📅 10 AM – 2 PM EST
💻 Live on Zoom + recordings
💰 $500 ($400 UConn affiliates)

Register: bioinformatics.uconn.edu/cbc-workshops/

#ChIPSeq #ATACSeq #Bioinformatics #Workshop

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 15d

I'm confused because I genuinely thought the types of christians who fret about the antichrist see end of the world as a good thing.

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Yun S. Song @yun-s-song.bsky.social · 18d

We are excited to share GPN-Star, a cost-effective, biologically grounded genomic language modeling framework that achieves state-of-the-art performance across a wide range of variant effect prediction tasks relevant to human genetics.
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 20d

yeah, I guess it's not digging or trying to move it, just poking at it repeatedly. super weird and interesting and very cool looking! thanks for sharing!

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 20d

that's amazing. I wonder if to a ghost crab an object or mound of sand right next to the burrow is viewed as a threat because it obscures their view of possible predators.

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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 20d

I wanted to get a video of this ghost crab but every time I got close to their hole they scuttled back in, so I tried getting clever with it. I made a little sandcastle and shoved my phone into it, hit record, and walked away. Crab was VERY suspicious of this addition to their environment.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 21d

real basic bioinfo q:

bioawk has a function `meanqual` that takes the arithmetic mean of phred-scaled base qualities. this is the geometric mean of the actual base error probabilities. why would anyone actually want that vs the arithmetic mean which can be interpreted as expected # errors?

Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 21d

I'm not a big boycotter, but we canceled Hulu/Disney+ over the Kimmel thing. This is straightforward authoritarianism.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 21d

In my fantasy world, the late night hosts are planning to get together on one of their shows and just do an hour long MAGA themed "aristocrats" riff.

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Noah Reid @noahreid.bsky.social · 22d

for me it's R in a terminal window.

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