John Humphreys @johnpharmd@qoto.org

To this extent I'm really interested to know how the age breakdown of people on the #Fediverse. On one hand it would seem to make sense to me that most people here remember the "old internet" before the centralization and they're here to rekindle that flame of independence. On the other hand the youths are generally pretty up on this whole technology thing. I grew up on the internet and since then smartphones have become even more ubiquitous.

(Please boost for reach)

The amount of #genomic data is just nuts. Just the #mysql dumps of the human and a few mouse genomes from #Ensembl are ~400GB compressed (have no idea what they uncompress to). Will definitely be experimenting with both ColumnStore #MariaDB (solid #Perl API) and #Spark (no nice api , but perhaps one can use pure #SQL to query stuff).
#BioinfoTools #bioinfotmatics #bigdata #genomics

The R-Weekly project is now on Mastodon! The latest issue 2022-W46 is available now at https://rweekly.org/2022-W46.html

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Another design consideration re: Mastodon is that it works well for ephemeral asynchronous communications, but for many reasons should not be counted on as an archival resource. Media attachments are periodically purged and may not be available after a week, or a month, etc. While some servers may try to preserve content forever, this may be costly and unsustainable. Creators, researchers should treat this as an ephemeral resource and make provisions for self-archiving anything important.

Open positions in security community - 2022 layoffs information sheet https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1P33psKhW_n81HugJ0_72B2v5kiEqL18qTxnCIH5a_0g/edit#gid=856656213 #jobs

Another flabbergasting Mastodon fact: if you're using your browser (not an app on your phone), you don't *have* to use the web-interface on your Mastodon instance. You can use another if you wish. Here's a screenshot of the Pinafore frontend, running directly on https://pinafore.social/ - a static website that simply does the API calls for you, and presents them to you. If you prefer, grab the source code on GitHub and host it yourself via Docker or running it directly with node.js ... amazing freedom of choice to suddenly have #mastodon #opensource #fediverse #pinafore