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Associate Professor of CS @ University of Maryland. Proud Rust advocate! I ♥ science & compiled, statically-typed programming languages! Views are my own.
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Truth nuke ~13:40; “C++ sucks”. I’m reserving judgement on Mojo, but this is an opinion about which I unabashedly agree. Sing it from the mountains, Chris! youtu.be/04_gN-C9IAo?...

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🖥️🧬We're thrilled to announce that one of our keynote speakers at #WABI2025 will be the inimitable @benlangmead.bsky.social! wabiconf.github.io/2025/talks/t... Ben's keynote is titled "We are what we index; a primer for the Wheeler Graph era", & it's sure to be a whirlwind tour of full-text indexing!

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

A decade of fatherhood so far. It's by far the hardest job of all of those I hold or have held, but without a doubt, it's the best and most rewarding. Happy father's day to all the dads out there doing good dadding!

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🖥️🧬 Thanks to the dedicated & focused effort of the entire PC, the WABI '25 decisions are out. We have a great program this year! Unfortunately, there was more solid work than we are able to accommodate, & we thank all of the authors for their submission. Congratulations to the proceedings authors!

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Wow, it's really "done" --- the jemalloc post-mortem : jasone.github.io/2025/06/12/j...

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Spending a few days with intramural researcher at NIH has me thinking about the old Bell Labs, the storied research institute where major breakthroughs in physics, chemistry and mat sci (and associated @nobelprize.bsky.social awards) were made in the 70s-80s 1/n

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New preprint! Deacon is a versatile tool for filtering FASTA/FASTQ files and streams at hundreds of megabases per second using minimizers, built with rapid metagenomic host depletion in mind, but equally useful for search. github.com/bede/deacon

submitted 3 days ago • 5 comments

The every 30 second multifactor authentication craze is, in fact, just a giant pain in the ass security theater. I'm shocked; shocked, I say!

submitted 3 days ago • 1 comment

A unanimous Supreme Court rules that a family whose house was wrongly raided by law enforcement can sue.

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This seems like an awesome course! jshun.csail.mit.edu/6506-s24/! If there were more hours in the day, I'd want to put something like this together at UMD.

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1/4 Hash functions in genomic sequence analysis (tinyurl.com/4kk9ccmt) : a new survey written together with Ke Chen, Xiang Li, Qian Shi, and Mingfu Shao. Before submitting it, we are posting it online to get feedback from the community.

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

With Rob's team, we are working to help users track data provenance during long read RNA-seq workflows, for both annotated (e.g. GENCODE) and novel transcripts (assembled during sequencing). Part of this involves formally designating the two sets, so they can be properly handled downstream.

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🧬🖥️ User survey (cc @mikelove.bsky.social)! In the next oarfish ver., we are going to track separate provenance of existing annotated transcripts & novel / assembled transcripts. The user can provide 2 files as input, (1 for existing txps, 1 for novel). What should the cmd line option names be?

submitted 5 days ago • 3 comments

Davide Cenzato, Francisco Olivares, Nicola Prezza Testing Suffixient Sets https://arxiv.org/abs/2506.08225

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Look; democrats are going to keep running longtime would-be reitrees if people keep voting for them! Especially when the stakes are like this, send a message. It's time to pass the baton to the next generation (who in a normal world would already be near the end of their service)!

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How much of this is a manufactured media narrative? Personally, I think a 7 year console lifecycle is completely reasonable. How is this "far too soon"? Now the bigger question is, can the console manufacturers make something actually worth upgrading to? www.gamingbible.com/news/platfor...

submitted 5 days ago • 4 comments

I want to learn more about “Suffixient sets” for indexing, but am finding the (clever) term very difficult to Google!

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

A monumental collaborative effort with many incredible people ☺️ Proud to be part of this!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

The panel should convene and continue to publicly announce their recommendations for the record, so that we can document in detail how many preventable deaths RFK Jr.'s anti-evidence-based policies kill.

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

Bioconda PRs right now 😅

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Monday morning hot take. 8GB gaming GPUs are dumb and shouldn't exist anymore in 2025. Convince the vendors of this by refusing to by immediately antiquated hardware!

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ish is a grep-like CLI tool that uses optimal alignment instead of exact matching. It’s record-type aware, supporting line, FASTA, and FASTQ records. Built in Mojo as a proof of concept for bioinformatics. 🧵1/5

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Qualified immunity is complete and utter nonsense. The idea is fundamentally flawed and it should be repealed!

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