Nicola Romanò @nicolaromano@qoto.org

Hey! An update. I've actually made such a Bioinformatics-centered server (see the message I'm replying to!). You can join here: https://discord.com/invite/arPBahn8N6

Boosts are very welcome, even if you're not interested. Thank you!

I'm going to re-tag this: #bioinformatics #discord #algorithm #datascience #tools #r #python #genomics #transcriptomics #multiomics #lab #collaboration #academia #computerscience #biology #science

Hey are you an #RStats user on Windows? Have you ever been frustrated you can't copy and paste the path to files and folders into an R string without getting an error about escaped characters?

THE ANSWER:

Put the letter r right before the opening quote for the string to disable "character constants" and turn it into a "string literal". Like this

myPath = r"c:\MyDir"

See the letter r chilling there, OUTSIDE the quote? That's the magic trick.

@rstats

Perfectly put, from @mrianleslie@twitter.com
https://ianleslie.substack.com/p/mutually-assured-engagement

@krita wow, it's almost like Stallman was right all along, when he warned decades ago, that proprietary software can and will spy on its users.
And everyone were saying "that's crazy talk, why would anyone want to spy on MY stuff???".

Artificial Incompetence
http://smbc-comics.com/comic/artificial-incompetence

If you work with #scRNAseq, you should have a look at tidyseurat https://github.com/stemangiola/tidyseurat

It creates an invisible layer that enables viewing the Seurat object as a tidyverse tibble, and provides Seurat-compatible dplyr, tidyr, ggplot & plotly functions

#rstats #Genomics

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Compromised PyTorch-nightly dependency chain between December 25th and December 30th, 2022.

Steals all your SSH keys!

"If you installed PyTorch-nightly on Linux via pip between December 25, 2022 and December 30, 2022, please uninstall it and torchtriton immediately, and use the latest nightly binaries (newer than Dec 30th 2022)."

#infosec #machinelearning #deeplearning

https://pytorch.org/blog/compromised-nightly-dependency/

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34202836

It’s done! 365 days of recording the local temperature and weather in a knitted scarf.

I cannot keep this to myself. There is a website (radio.garden) where you can listen to radio stations all over the world for free. No log in. No email address. Nothing.

When the site loads, you are looking at the globe. Slide the little white circle over the green dots (each green dot is a radio station) until you find one you like.

I have been listening to this station in the Netherlands and it absolutely slaps. I have no idea what they're saying but the music is fantastic.

Use Mastodon 🐘 on desktop? I made a Chrome extension (works in Edge, Safari & Firefox coming soon!) to make following people, favoriting, bookmarking & boosting toots on remote instances easy as your home instance! (1-click)!

🙌 Appreciate the boosts! 🙌

🌐 Install Graze For Mastodon — https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/graze/epocinhmkcnjfjobnglchpbncndobblj

🗨️ Suggestions or issues — https://graze.canny.io/

❓ Frequently Asked Questions — https://faqabout.me/iam/graze

#Mastodon #GrazeForMastodon #fediverse #programming #MastodonTips

Sister Mary Kenneth Keller was born #OTD in 1913. She worked with John G. Kemeny and Thomas E. Kurtz on the design and implementation of Beginner’s All Purpose Symbolic Instruction Code — BASIC — and was the first woman in the US to earn a PhD in Computer Science.

10 PRINT “HAPPY BIRTHDAY”
20 GOTO 10

How did I miss this conference?

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#NormConf is the tech conference about all the stuff that matters in data and machine learning, but doesn't get the spotlight.
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Topics include:

- How small can I get that Docker container?
- What's the simplest possible thing that might work, and why didn't you try that first?
- Data ethics: the non-sexy parts

The good thing: all videos are available 🤓

#NormIPS

https://normconf.com/

The thing about #depression is it can take away all joy in life.
Things you once loved, whether it's art, projects, cooking/food, etc. It can sap you of motivation, take the fun out of activities, and really make things generally more difficult.

These can also be indicators that you're depressed.

If you like the idea of using #RStats {targets} 📦 for reproducible data analysis, updating only things that need to be updated, and keeping yourself organized; but have struggled how to use it within a data analysis, I have a blog post that might help you.

In the post, I show how I work through an example lipidomics analysis using {targets}, that should be generally applicable to many, many data analyses, even non-omics.

Creating an Analysis With a targets Workflow

http://rmflight.github.io/posts/2022-09-27-creating-an-analysis-using-targets/