Yes, we can now draw graphs in the shape of starfleet insignia. More on the method later.
Daniel Probst
@skepteis.bsky.social
Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.
New postdoc opportunity in our team! Topic is computational analysis of (meta)genomic data to study evolution of plant-microbiome interactions. Part of the AEGIS consortium (aegisearth.bio/en). Apply here: www.wur.nl/en/vacancy/p... Please RT!
Postdoc on computational (meta)genomic analysis
Climate change is one of the greatest challenges for global food security, requiring new approaches to understand and harness the natural diversity that enables plants and their associated microbiomes...
wur.nl
The kids are alright! :-D Schade um die 530, aber immerhin... Verteidigungsministerium [zieht] eine erste Bilanz: 298.200 Briefe wurden verschickt an alle jungen Männer und Frauen, die dieses Jahr volljährig werden. Aus diesem Pool konnten bisher etwa 530 rekrutiert werden.
Wehrdienst: Fragebogenaktion bringt Bundeswehr etwa 530 Rekruten
Seit Januar lässt Boris Pistorius die 18-Jährigen anschreiben: Kommst Du freiwillig zum Bund? Die ersten Rücklaufzahlen wirken ernüchternd.
zdfheute.de
All fine, but it is the burning of research funding on AI shit that is really worrying. £60m on two AI centres that will deliver manure of the lowest quality only.
Christopher Smith@christophersmith.bsky.social · 5d agoI no longer use X/Twitter, so here I am to support @stianwestlake.bsky.social who has written well on @ukri.org 's strategy I believe his argument is correct: a science funder must fund both curiosity driven and applied research, and that will demand difficult choices 🧵 x.com/stianwestlak...
Here's Europe. 57 dead so far (not that any politician would care): - President of the European Council welcomes Spain's 'firm response' - France sends police reinforcements to Spanish border - Italy suspends Schengen Agreement with Spain - Finland, Austria join call for Schengen border closures
"Spain will send troops to Ceuta to help with border security" And this is exactly what an (even more) militarised Europe will do more with increasing brutality: Use it to keep the "wretched of the earth", which it has exploited for centuries, out.
"Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data center" Reminds me of this urban legend about Marilyn Manson...
Nvidia in talks with OpenAI to guarantee $250 billion financing for data center, WSJ reports
Nvidia is in talks to provide roughly $250 billion in financing guarantees for OpenAI as part of a massive data center project, the Wall Street Journal reported on Sunday.
reuters.com
Now with a background to make the Studio Ghibli influence a bit more obvious ;-). It's a shader that does all the work, no models except for the, well, 3D model of the protein that is read from a PDB file.
Daniel Probst@skepteis.bsky.social · last wk.I'm cleaning out old weekend projects that I've worked on over the years. Here's one: A python package wrapping a shader that renders proteins in a certain, well-known style, or at least my interpretation of it (the hint is in the name). Have fun. github.com/daenuprobst/...
Here's one for the chemists: The Schneider50k reaction data set coloured by reaction type.
Daniel Probst@skepteis.bsky.social · 6d agoFloDR: An invertible dimensionality reduction method based on a normalising flow ... combining the advantages of PCA with those of UMAP. We also show what the map "hides" in the remaining dimensions and how wrong it is when two points with different labels are close. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26278
FloDR: An invertible dimensionality reduction method based on a normalising flow ... combining the advantages of PCA with those of UMAP. We also show what the map "hides" in the remaining dimensions and how wrong it is when two points with different labels are close. arxiv.org/pdf/2607.26278
Razan, 11 years old: "[She] lost her parents and three brothers in the [still] ongoing ["war"] and an explosion led to her left leg being amputated."
Daniel Probst@skepteis.bsky.social · 3mo agoDana, 12 years old: "To communicate with 12-year-old Dana, who has become deaf, her desperate parents have resorted to shouting. Only Alina, her 4-year-old little sister, has managed to connect with her by speaking directly into her ear." Source: Le Monde
#OtD 29 Jul 1996 four women anti-war activists were acquitted in Liverpool, UK of all charges related to extensively damaging a fighter jet. They were found not guilty on the basis of preventing a greater crime: the genocidal occupation of East Timor stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1010...
This is wild. More than 50% of US Americans believe that unicorns (socialist US politicians) exist.
Which politicians Americans say are socialists
Bernie Sanders is the politician Americans are most likely to identify as a socialist (55% do), followed closely by Zohran Mamdani at 51% and Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez at 45%
yougov.com
"Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set." What a twist. Muskies AI slop version (which will likely never happen) is probably the more ethical one.
Christopher Nolan’s Odyssey used occupied land as a film set. That feels like a betrayal | Mohamed Sleiman Labat
The decision to shoot in Moroccan-occupied Western Sahara, where the Indigenous people can’t tell their stories without fear of imprisonment, helps erase our own brutal journey
theguardian.com
It will be interesting to see what will happen in a certain country that has been managing a permanent crisis of low profitability for 40 years by borrowing from itself...
You couldn't come up with this... except if you know how capitalism works, that is
World Cup: Uefa furious at reports Fifa plan to sell stakes in tournament
European football's governing body Uefa reacts furiously to proposals from Fifa to seek private investment in its competitions, including the World Cup.
bbc.com
For no particular reason, I looked up what the (time) record for losing two wars against the same opponent was. I couldn't find one but I'm pretty sure it either involves France and the UK, of European settlers in Australia and a native animal.
In case you wonder how a really bad writer like Orwell became a (pop) culture and scifi mainstay...
Orwell and the CIA | George Orwell
How George Orwell's writings were used by the CIA
orwellinstitute.com
And here's the LinkedIn version: I'm thrilled to be cleaning out old weekend projects that past weekends have enabled me to create. During this time, I've learned a lot and became an enthusiastic and, most importantly, productive member of society. #proudweekendprojectdoer
Daniel Probst@skepteis.bsky.social · last wk.I'm cleaning out old weekend projects that I've worked on over the years. Here's one: A python package wrapping a shader that renders proteins in a certain, well-known style, or at least my interpretation of it (the hint is in the name). Have fun. github.com/daenuprobst/...
I'm cleaning out old weekend projects that I've worked on over the years. Here's one: A python package wrapping a shader that renders proteins in a certain, well-known style, or at least my interpretation of it (the hint is in the name). Have fun. github.com/daenuprobst/...
It's interesting how the so-called "digitalisation" is largely a tool to move public resources into private pockets with, IMO, doubtful use for the public.
It's interesting how political energy is always converted into harmless cultural debate, away from anything that could actually affect the material base...
The country that named the weapons they use to terrorise people around the world "Tomahawk" and "Apache" did what!?
Merci Gemini et Google pour cela: Quand tu demandes à Google "how many days of the week have poop in it?" La réponse. On est très très bien...
