Turns out all this time you were writing for AI to read!

good thing i've been writing for myself all along

Does it not being an English philology paper mean they are free to spell “fish” as “ghoti”?

Definitely an applied maths paper given that it has been published under CS/ML and been accepted at ICML.

Its not even applied math

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away

technology should be silent

bioinformaticians have been making these useless bioinformatic-toolkit-in-my-favorite-programming-language repos for years

Well, what else are we going to do while waiting for the bench scientists to finish collecting data?

Dissertationware is common in a lot of fields, honestly.

Hate to agree, but it is true. For a while, I think, the main sequencing framework was in perl (Bioperl). Not sure what was best for structures - possibly Biojava?

It is very tempting, though - 'just' make a nice, clean API in your favourite language (eg Haskell, Ruby, ...) and everyone will flock to use it! Maybe.

Why don't you mention Biopython? Bioperl is already too old and not much up-to-date with newest data.

He’s talking about the past (“For a while, …”). Up to early 2010s, I would say.

academic clickbait

where did you get a 5090 I will buy it from you

same! how do you deal with cloudtop latency though? sometimes my neovim is very slow and laggy because of the remote connection / network file system

Cloudtop to run builds, g4 commands, etc., and srcfs / srcfsn to actually write code. (caveat: I have never used neovim, so I don't know if that is different).

I use a workstation specifically to improve latency. Needed to get approval at some point to get a refresh though.

like a workstation under your desk? is the latency bad when you remote access it not in the office?

Yeah, under my desk. I rarely remote which is a good excuse for me to disconnect from work anyways.

Spin up one in the US central region instead of an instance near your satellite office. The bottleneck is usually not your shell connection to the instance but the connections from the instance to all the infrastructure that's mainly based in the US.

Mosh instead of ssh. Works well enough for as long as it works.

Road warrior even supports it.

But i keep going back to regular ssh or shpool with roadwarrior.

Ever tried SSH'ing via "Mosh"? https://mosh.org

I have a (Google-issued) desktop in the same city I live in, so the latency is not so bad.

I will say that the latency of the filesystem is a different problem. Most of the google filesystem tooling is not built for command line tools that expect to index large subsets of the filesystem at once.

as a child I found puppet exposure disturbing and semi traumatic

I have an old puppet of animal from the Muppets. He's wearing a skateboard shop shirt and has a little skateboard. Just the sort of thing you could picture sitting in a window in the late 70's.

My oldest was FUCKING TERRIFIED of the puppet out of nowhere when he was like 5. He wouldn't sleep unless we could prove that it was no longer in the house.

You just never know what's going to make a formative memory until it's far too late.

I'm on the opposite end of this spectrum. Puppets are absurd, hysterical, and it used to be a family thing to get together and make puppets every Christmas. I'd try to make the goofiest looking puppet possible. The last one I made has a wide brimmed hat, blond hair, glasses, and the weirdest looking braided mustache. Oh, and ping pong balls for eyes.

It makes me chuckle every time I see it.