Ben Cardoen

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Computational scientist designing novel weakly supervised reconstruction and detection algorithms in superresolution microscopy
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https://bioinformatics.ca/workshops-all/2025-pathogen-genomic-epidemiology-online/
#bioinformatics
(2025) Pathogen Genomic Epidemiology: Online - Bioinformatics.ca

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A recurring pattern (for me) are integers mapped to integers, e.g. k->v, and v->k, and I often need random lookup of one to the other and back.
Usually solved in diy mode with paired dictionaries, or dedicated multimap datastructures. In Julia, there's a neat library called Bijections.jl which does exactly that, it captures a 1-1 mapping between two sets. https://juliacollections.github.io/Bijections.jl/stable/ #julia #JuliaComputing #scientificcomputing
Getting Started · Bijections.jl

Documentation for Bijections.jl.

StaticArrays.jl is quite powerful in integrating stack allocated fixed size (const if needed) arrays/matrices, in the right spot it can be a big performance improvement over Vector/Array. #scientificcomputing

https://juliaarrays.github.io/StaticArrays.jl/v1.9/api/

#JuliaComputing

API · StaticArrays.jl

Documentation for StaticArrays.jl.

@duckz @Natanox Was going to say the same thing, the detailed breakdown of what the app does/doesn't do in terms of privacy/openness makes F-droid quite excellent for apps
@thisismyglasgow Reminds me a bit of the flood defences in the Netherlands, there's a subtle effect on the ecosystem as salt water intake is changed due to the gates that can be maximized to encourage specific species of plants/fishes.
@Jgbird This is a great shot, whenever I see them it's often too dark to really bring out their blue hues.

Inspired by Google's move to remove @organicmaps from the Playstore without warning, I finally decided to move my > 3,000 Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps. To facilitate doing this for others' benefit, I made a quick webpage to convert your Google Maps GeoJSON data to GPX and KMZ files that render well in Organic Maps.

https://rudokemper.github.io/google-maps-places-to-organic-maps/

Convert Google Maps saved places to Organic Maps

@Research_FTW Steam works quite well on Linux across distributions, but check individual games and which distros support graphics drivers better. CachyOS is reportedly excellent for squeezing out every last bit of performance (Arch based).

For Nvivo, you'd have three options: apart from Vm you can try Wine.
The Wine db ratings are not promising though. https://appdb.winehq.org/objectManager.php?sClass=application&iId=2389

Before switching, I usually recommend trying out a few distros using a live image on USB

Making sure you're not a bot!

Blue tit in my garden last week. #photography

One of those 'nice to have' things in Julia bridging the distance between code and mathematics: support for unicode mathematical operators as functions:

a = Set([1,2,3])
a = a ∪ [4]
a == Set([1,2,3,4]) # true

#JuliaComputing #mathematics #computerscience