Rob Patro
@robp.bsky.social
Associate Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own. Tech stack: https://github.com/rob-p/tech-stack.
Hey @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social; what's up with the dupes today?
January 8, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Hey @biorxivpreprint.bsky.social; what's up with the dupes today?
QCatch is a comprehensive, @scverse.bsky.social-integrated quality control tool that is easy to use downstream of alevin-fry and simpleaf. It augments the simpleaf output with useful QC info (empty droplet probability, mito content, etc.) and provides the USA count matrix as an anndata object. 2/x
January 3, 2026 at 6:18 PM
QCatch is a comprehensive, @scverse.bsky.social-integrated quality control tool that is easy to use downstream of alevin-fry and simpleaf. It augments the simpleaf output with useful QC info (empty droplet probability, mito content, etc.) and provides the USA count matrix as an anndata object. 2/x
Picture of M31 taken with our new telescope. This is so much better than any space photography I've ever done in the past it's not even funny. Interested to really learn to use this thing!
December 26, 2025 at 12:53 AM
Picture of M31 taken with our new telescope. This is so much better than any space photography I've ever done in the past it's not even funny. Interested to really learn to use this thing!
Peter Theil knows about the antichrist!
December 19, 2025 at 4:16 PM
Peter Theil knows about the antichrist!
Brown to Panda Nano conversion #2 now underway!
December 9, 2025 at 3:29 PM
Brown to Panda Nano conversion #2 now underway!
It warms your heart to see one if your favorite devs start to star a bunch of dev-related Rust crates.
December 4, 2025 at 10:46 AM
It warms your heart to see one if your favorite devs start to star a bunch of dev-related Rust crates.
The MCPS school decision today was so bad they needed to apologize. Thanks for the apology, but it's meaningless without real change. You consistently fail MC parents & students with these poor decisions. Please, do better! If you have to subdivide the county into several districts, then do it!
December 3, 2025 at 3:21 AM
The MCPS school decision today was so bad they needed to apologize. Thanks for the apology, but it's meaningless without real change. You consistently fail MC parents & students with these poor decisions. Please, do better! If you have to subdivide the county into several districts, then do it!
The Montgomery County, MD school district should be at least 4 separate school districts. Does anyone know the proper people to contact to propose such an initiative?
December 2, 2025 at 2:11 PM
The Montgomery County, MD school district should be at least 4 separate school districts. Does anyone know the proper people to contact to propose such an initiative?
Typst makes nice tables!
November 21, 2025 at 8:13 PM
Typst makes nice tables!
The code and API still need a little love, but it works now with single & paired-end reads (and is trivially extendable to any "arity" of synced files), and the speedups are quite nice!
2/2
2/2
November 19, 2025 at 3:01 AM
The code and API still need a little love, but it works now with single & paired-end reads (and is trivially extendable to any "arity" of synced files), and the speedups are quite nice!
2/2
2/2
They're laying it on thick, huh?
November 3, 2025 at 6:27 PM
They're laying it on thick, huh?
Hodge decomp is easy though. It breaks up 1 forms into disjoint components. In this case, perhaps a vector field into a divergence free component, a curl free component, and a harmonic component (pic from Keenan’s course)?
October 24, 2025 at 11:28 AM
Hodge decomp is easy though. It breaks up 1 forms into disjoint components. In this case, perhaps a vector field into a divergence free component, a curl free component, and a harmonic component (pic from Keenan’s course)?
San Diego is pretty nice 🙂!
October 21, 2025 at 2:15 PM
San Diego is pretty nice 🙂!
I'm low-key excited for the term "DNS resolution" to enter the broader public vernacular. I just wish it had a more positive association...
October 20, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I'm low-key excited for the term "DNS resolution" to enter the broader public vernacular. I just wish it had a more positive association...
I find this conference where both the submissions and reviews are AI generated at least a bit distressing. Also, it would seem state of the art generative models still can’t solve the LaTeX formatting problem 😜 agents4science.stanford.edu
October 20, 2025 at 2:30 PM
I find this conference where both the submissions and reviews are AI generated at least a bit distressing. Also, it would seem state of the art generative models still can’t solve the LaTeX formatting problem 😜 agents4science.stanford.edu
Getting ready to watch the BSO play along with Jurassic Park (the OG)! Should be good!
October 5, 2025 at 6:58 PM
Getting ready to watch the BSO play along with Jurassic Park (the OG)! Should be good!
Yes; that's what they believe. But I disagree that publicizing this is a bad use of time. I'm the polarized online world, we often forget how many people are not terminally online or who are not hardline one one "side" or the other. Pointing out rank and obvious hypocrisy is good, actually.
September 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Yes; that's what they believe. But I disagree that publicizing this is a bad use of time. I'm the polarized online world, we often forget how many people are not terminally online or who are not hardline one one "side" or the other. Pointing out rank and obvious hypocrisy is good, actually.
We've had a preprint about 80% ready for like 10 months.... That last 20% is killing me as I don't have a student with dedicated time for this project...
September 17, 2025 at 2:26 PM
We've had a preprint about 80% ready for like 10 months.... That last 20% is killing me as I don't have a student with dedicated time for this project...
Oh noes, the AI is getting smarter and coming for us!
The AI that is coming for us:
The AI that is coming for us:
September 7, 2025 at 11:59 PM
Oh noes, the AI is getting smarter and coming for us!
The AI that is coming for us:
The AI that is coming for us:
I have a bunch of examples!
September 6, 2025 at 2:50 PM
I have a bunch of examples!
Certainly not bioinformatics (De Bruijn graph "example" from Claude):
September 5, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Certainly not bioinformatics (De Bruijn graph "example" from Claude):