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marcosfelt··on FDA approves new kind of cholesterol pill
There's a nice writeup by Derek Lowe on the synthesis of this molecule: https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/futuristic-synthes...

It's quite a beast!

marcosfelt··on Some graphene firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling
More the people!
marcosfelt··on Some graphene firms have reaped its potential but others are struggling
It's also worth noting how insular and toxic some parts of the graphene world can be.
marcosfelt··on Penn to reduce graduate admissions, rescind acceptances amid research cuts
This blog post gives some good context on why indirect rates exist and some more reasonable ideas for reforming the current system: https://goodscience.substack.com/p/indirect-costs-at-nih?utm...
marcosfelt··on RLHF Book
This is a great summary!
marcosfelt··on Show HN: PlatePlanner – Design Beautiful Platemaps
Does this generate worklists for liquid handlers? Also recommend posting in https://labautomation.io/
marcosfelt··on A simple AI copilot for people facing teams
Nice landing page!
marcosfelt··on Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair
There's a company called VeriSIM life trying to make the physiological models mentioned in the post more accessible [1]. They apparently fit their models across a bunch of publicly available and proprietary data. I found some peer-reviewed publications (e.g. [2]), but I am not sure how widely they are used.

[1] https://www.verisimlife.com/our-platform [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/DDDT.S253064?ro...

marcosfelt··on EXGBoost: Gradient Boosting in Elixir
For the uninitiated, what is the advantage of using Elixir for machine learning?
marcosfelt··on Is Wikipedia Down?
Yes, English wikipedia - getting 503s
marcosfelt··on Stanford president resigns over manipulated research, will retract 3 papers
He was interviewed by one of the local TV stations today: https://abc7news.com/stanford-theo-baker-university-presiden...
marcosfelt··on Boston mayor announces residential conversion program for office buildings
Thanks for sharing this!
marcosfelt··on Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content
Right now, it sends the first five rows of the dataframe: https://github.com/approximatelabs/sketch/blob/9d567ec161015...
marcosfelt··on Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content
Just played around with this and I think I'll be using it on some research projects!

One cool feature would be some sort of chaining, where you could anchor a new query to a previous one.

For example, on the sales data demo, I started with the howto query "Plot the sales per month in a bar chart using plotly."

However, I got a bug since "Order Date" wasn't a datetime, so I added "Make sure to make 'Order Date' a date column." The new code worked, but gave months as integers 1-12.

When I added "Include month name on x-axis (e.g., Jan, Feb, ...).", the model sort of gave up and spit out some buggy code that didn't make a bar plot.

In this example, it would be great to be able to chain the howto commands, so the previous result is used as context for the new one.

marcosfelt··on Graduate students question career options
I left the US to do a UK PhD for this reason. No teaching responsibilities and you can just do the PhD. And they really try to kick you out after four years (at least in Cambridge).
marcosfelt··on Graduate students question career options
What field were you in? I feel like PhDs in fields with a strong job market for R&D (e.g., machine learning, biomedical or chemical engineering) can be worth it. I think, otherwise, it can be really difficult.
marcosfelt··on Graduate students question career options
Wow, this is a lot.
marcosfelt··on Graduate students question career options
I agree with the whisper net comment. You learn about who's good and bad pretty quickly once you get into a department, but everyone is hush-hush otherwise. We need a glassdoor for academia.
marcosfelt··on Make Python Run Faster
For visualizing profiles, I really like tuna: https://github.com/nschloe/tuna
marcosfelt··on Logseq: Privacy-First, Joyful Platform for Knowledge Management
I just switched over to LogSeq from Roam Research, and I'm using Github for syncing and backup. I wrote a short blog post about it: https://kobifelton.com/notes/freeing-myself-from-roam-resear...
marcosfelt··on 10x cheaper lab automation with opentrons
The folks over at Retro bio used an Opentrons (longevity research) to make a version of the 10x genomics robot 10x cheaper.
marcosfelt··on Paperspace partners with Graphcore to launch IPU cloud service
How much better are the graphcore IPU's than the nvidia gpus?
marcosfelt··on Update about the October 4th outage
If they have such a rigorous release process, what could have caused all of the dns records to get wiped?