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Andrew Whitwham

@whitwham.bsky.social

Archer, gamer, coder.

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Reactor Magazine@reactorsff.bsky.social · last wk.

Last week, we shared an American edition of Katharine Kerr's Daggerspell. Today, we're showing off the UK edition! This version came from the now-defunct publisher Grafton, and has a gorgeous cover by artist Geoff Taylor

Daggerspell by Katharine Kerr
Robert Aboukhalil@robert.bio · 2w ago

grep is a fantastic tool, but it doesn't really work on sequencing data: it breaks when the pattern is in the read name, and doesn't support paired-end FASTQs. Thanks to @nilshomer.com, we have a new interactive guide on using fqgrep to find patterns in FASTQ files: ➡️ sandbox.bio/tutorials/fq...

Interactive bioinformatics tutorials

Learn bioinformatics from your browser, no setup required. Everything runs in a sandbox, so you can experiment all you want.

sandbox.bio

James Bonfield@jbonfield.bsky.social · 4w ago

Note with the new release (1.24) of samtools / bcftools / htslib, we took the decision to drop CRAM 4.0 support. This is because htslib was the only thing that implemented it AFAIK, it was an experimental prerelease and not an adopted standard, and sadly it wasn't as well engineered as it should be

Michael Baym@baym.lol · 4mo ago

I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name OAI: say no more

OpenAI {bot}@openaibot.bsky.social · 4mo ago

Introducing GPT-Rosalind, our frontier reasoning model built to support research across biology, drug discovery, and translational medicine. Video: https://twitter.com/openai/status/2044861690911850863

John Bull@garius.bsky.social · 2y ago

Something I try to explain to tech peeps/investors is the danger of seeing yourself as the outcome, rather than the enabler. It leads to creating 'value' that isn't valuable to the user. It just complicates their journey to the outcome you are meant to deliver. Facebook is speed-running that. /1

Daily Dot@dailydot.com · 2y ago

“Big influencers need to start looking at Meta sideways after this. They making these fake AI accounts so they don’t have to pay y’all for content." "They are manufacturing the human experience ... This is a threat to all of us.” READ MORE: www.dailydot.com/debug/meta-a...

Pulp Librarian@pulplibrarian.bsky.social · 2y ago

DATELINE: MARCH 1981. Shakin' Stevens is top of the charts, Tom Baker is leaving Doctor Who and Clive Sinclair is bringing computers to the masses. Britain is finally moving into a new age, and one object above all heralds its arrival. This is the story of the ZX81...

ZX81 computer setup instructions
rogueclassicist ~ david meadows@rogueclassicist.bsky.social · 2y ago

Pallantium, the Legendary Greek City the Romans Believed Existed Where Rome Was Later Founded - www.labrujulaverde.com/en/2024/09/p...

Pallantium, the Legendary Greek City the Romans Believed Existed Where Rome Was Later Founded

One of the most fascinating and perhaps lesser-known stories of Rome's history is that of Pallantium (in ancient Greek Παλλάντιον), a legendary city that, according to various ancient sources, stood o...

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