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One pipeline to run it all,
one pipeline to find them.
One pipeline to collate the tables,
and in the cloud bind them.

Did you know that `xargs echo` can't print out a line with 2^17 characters? Seems to wrap with a newline at that point. Bad way to munge file to line 😅 whups

#alwaysBeFuckingUpInNewWays
#bioinformatics

Reminded* recently of this idea: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.02.007
You want a sgRNA library? just transform the target genome into bacteria, it's what they do!

Strangely seems cute to me 😅 I dunno, just feels that way. Clever maybe

*(going to Tavazoie's site to download FIRE again, and it's in `docker://darachm/fire:fire` if anyone wants to use it)

The concept of pervasive financialization, as desired by libertarians and evangelized by #web3-types, is getting an interesting test in Twitter subscriptions

The expectation that content-creators owe Twitter 8 bucks is an example of how this financialized worldview is too brittle to capture the nuance of reality

Curious!

Gonna start referring to lab leak theories as

COVID Creationism

Capitalism has convinced you RSS is antiquated. The real reason it's fading is because it doesn't have ads and tracking. You going to tell me the news article is truly better on a browser with ads than on a little program you can open any time, on or offline?
Gonna start a biomed science pun website, call it PunMed

Great! This reports that Go players can take advantage of new tactics that are dumbly obvious against humans, but since state-of-the-art "Al" is just memorizing then it works to defeat them.

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2023/02/man-beats-machine-at-go-in-human-victory-over-ai/

Similar to how I heard on TWiML that GPT3 accuracy with maths scales with the log abundance in the training days

Weird defeats the Squares and computer Als as well !

Man beats machine at Go in human victory over AI

Amateur exploited weakness in systems that have otherwise dominated grandmasters.

Ars Technica
Glad to get the virologists to weigh in on spotting a fake virologist
woooot - got my sassy letter read on TWiV 😆 but maybe shoulda added a </sarcasm> tag...