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South City. Formerly biogeochemistry/microbial bioinformatics; now software and bikes/urbanism/random plants.
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Had fun at the San Mateo County Fair today. Some changes from last year: they have a kid rollercoaster called the "Orient Express" and there were no birds in the livestock barn (only a chick incubator).

how big are those famous space images anyway?

Cloudy day at the beach. Lots of Velella washing up in Pacifica.

🚀 Pushed some updates to taxonomy.onecodex.com - Example queries to help you get started - Summary section for easier interpretation - Perf. improvements

It might be useful to know what percentage of pre-LLM code was just accepted auto-complete?

Pretty happy with my developing CAD skills that I managed to match (down to the threading that fits) this broken piece of a toy.

it's god's job to kill me it's my job to scurry around, steal food and hide under things

Ed is the standard unix text editor. It's also strange. This is a video about ed, why it is the way it is, and an alternative vision of computing in the world that may just be coming back. youtu.be/GoyNMFccbow

It definitely feels weird that we're closer to the January 19, 2038 issues than we are from the January 1, 2000 ones.

I don’t know what’s going on with my job yet but I’m an NIH funded scientist and I’ve been waiting for the other shoe to drop. Here’s my LinkedIn. I’m a human geneticist and computational biologist. I very much want to stay in Seattle for family reasons. Please repost www.linkedin.com/in/nparmalee

Spending my evening at the SSF Special City Council meeting about the future of the MSB (to support building housing there).

If this was disinformation, how would you tell?

We're entering the Butthole Logo era velvetshark.com/ai-company-l...

It's the 100th anniversary of The Great Gatsby. I did this jigsaw over the solstice break and it was pretty good: us.laurenceking.com/products/the...

It's going to be painful to see this progress erased as the economy tanks and WFH is clawed back. 🙁

chromConverter 0.7.5 is finally available on CRAN! Major changes since v0.2.1 include support for 10+ new file formats (Shimadzu LCD/QGD, Agilent D, Varian SMS, Allotrope ASM, ANDI MS/CHROM, mzML), parallel processing, and better metadata extraction. #rstats #CRAN #chromatography #opendata

Our local NIMBYs set up a YouTube channel and their latest is just a 12 year old council comment that's a conspiracy theorist ad-lib: m.youtube.com/watch?v=GbF0...

now lissen har yung uns. the las somer befur the worl gut dark, it wus a brat girl somer.

If you are a scientist (in the field of microbiology/immunology) in the USA and are looking for opportunities in Europe, ping me a DM, as I am happy to talk to you and informally discuss what to expect of academia in Europe and what will work best for you.

Hyvää Urhon Päivää! Happy Saint Urho's Day! 💜💚🦗🍇🦗🍇🦗💚💜

Once again loving this interpretation of Caesar’s last words #IdesofMarch 🗡️

It's Oakland and SF.