Gethsemane (u/Gethsemane)

Gethsemane commented on Do I not like Ruby anymore? (2024) sgt.hootr.club/molten-mat... · Posted by u/Vedor

maleldil · 6 days ago

Typer is very convenient. I don't believe anyone manually parses arguments manually in Python where we have argparse in the standard library, and Typer is a step forward from that.

Gethsemane · 6 days ago

I really want to like typer, and frequently go down the rabbit hole of rewriting all my argparse into typer, but I keep getting put off by it's high import cost and that development seems to be a bit up in the air (see https://github.com/fastapi/typer/issues/678#issuecomment-319...). A shame because otherwise it's a really nice library!

Gethsemane commented on AlphaGenome: AI for better understanding the genome deepmind.google/discover/... · Posted by u/i_love_limes

331c8c71 · 2 months ago

This one seems like well done research but in no way revolutionary. People have been doing similar stuff for a while...

Gethsemane · 2 months ago

Agreed, there’s been some interesting developments in this space recently (e.g. AgroNT). Very excited for it, particularly as genome sequencing gets cheaper and cheaper!

I’d pitch this paper as a very solid demonstration of the approach, and im sure it will lead to some pretty rapid developments (similar to what Rosettafold/alphafold did)

Gethsemane commented on Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs imaginarytext.ca/posts/20... · Posted by u/bribri

binarycoffee · 9 months ago

I can see why someone would prefer Typst over LaTeX when the source is written in Typst or LaTeX, but what are the advantages if your source document is in Markdown? Is there anything else beyond the (presumably) smaller install size of Typst?

Gethsemane · 9 months ago

Something I found useful is that you can create a much more minimal pandoc template for typst than for latex. Obviously if familiar with latex it probably won't be an issue, but when I tried to make my own barebones pandoc template (i.e., stripping out beamer) I gave up.

Gethsemane commented on Using Pandoc and Typst to Produce PDFs imaginarytext.ca/posts/20... · Posted by u/bribri

Gethsemane · 9 months ago

I've similarly found the combination of pandoc + typst to be quite exciting. I've found it particularly useful for typesetting academic papers - I'm quite averse to word in general, don't require extensive mathematical typesetting support, and find latex to generally be quite unapproachable (just look at the size of the default pandoc template!), and so it gives me a method of making a decent pdf whilst simultaneously producing a .docx for my collaborators. Being able to track changes with git is also a huge advantage, although never had the chance to work with someone who is comfortable using git :(

The recently added support for PDF/A is also quite exciting, as I've never found a satisfactory solution to this with latex. Now I just wish journals would support markdown submissions...

Gethsemane commented on Chemists Create World's Thinnest Spaghetti phys.org/news/2024-11-che... · Posted by u/pseudolus

Gethsemane · 9 months ago

I am a fan of the colour scheme they selected in figure 2 - very relevant. https://pubs.rsc.org/image/article/2024/na/d4na00601a/d4na00...

Gethsemane commented on Hoodmaps: Publicly Annotated City Maps hoodmaps.com... · Posted by u/surprisetalk

Gethsemane · a year ago

As an example of a more informative map of income/deprivation, I recently encountered the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation website (https://simd.scot). Only applicable to Scotland (obviously), but it is interesting to see how each city is a mosaic of social status. From personal experience, it is extremely accurate down to the street level!

Gethsemane commented on How I Built My Blog joshwcomeau.com/blog/how-... · Posted by u/soheilpro

pxtail · a year ago

For homepage I got frozen page and: page is not responsive / page is slowing down browser message from both Firefox and Chrome - I guess all that cutting-edge tech for displaying the blog really loves giving my CPU a workout.

Gethsemane · a year ago

50% CPU usage on the home page, and the firefox inspect tool crashes before it can open! The content itself doesn't load either - just a large blue box

Gethsemane commented on LinkedIn is now using everyone's content to train their AI tool twitter.com/RachelTobac/s... · Posted by u/lopkeny12ko

lordnacho · a year ago

LinkedIn is an business card / CV storage site, where you can find a job.

If it was just a bunch of linked profiles with a job matching function, it would still be LinkedIn.

But of course, you can't work at a place that does something that mundane without suggesting something that makes you look like Facebook or Twitter. You have to at least give people some sort of reason to see what their old colleagues are up to.

Nobody really wants to read the LinkedIn feed, so it's perfectly acceptable that it gets flooded with AI generated content. In effect, the content on LinkedIn is that picture of a happy family on your insurance brochure. You can't not have a photo of something on that kind of marketing document, and you can't be a social network without some sort of doom-scrollable content.

This is just a cheap way to generate some wallpaper.

Gethsemane · a year ago

It is a shame. Twitter used to be quite a popular platform for (useful and interesting) networking in academia, but after it began to fall apart everyone started looking for alternatives. I felt that LinkedIn should be a decent alternative as it could strike that balance between professional and personal content, but there is just no way for a genuine community to develop on LinkenIn in its current form.

Even now LinkedIn is possibly the worst platform for being polluted with "AI slop", I cannot understand why they are looking to advance this further. Hell, when you go to write a post now there is a big flashing button saying "USE AI TO WRITE THIS POST"...?!?!

Gethsemane commented on Why wordfreq will not be updated github.com/rspeer/wordfre... · Posted by u/tomthe

0xbadcafebee · a year ago

I'm going to call it: The Web is dead. Thanks to "AI" I spend more time now digging through searches trying to find something useful than I did back in 2005. And the sites you do find are largely garbage.

As a random example: just trying to find a particular popular set of wireless earbuds takes me at least 10 minutes, when I already know the company, the company's website, other vendors that sell the company's goods, etc. It's just buried under tons of dreck. And my laptop is "old" (an 8-core i7 processor with 16GB of RAM) so it struggles to push through graphics-intense "modern" websites like the vendor's. Their old website was plain and worked great, letting me quickly search through their products and quickly purchase them. Last night I literally struggled to add things to cart and check out; it was actually harrowing.

Fuck the web, fuck web browsers, web design, SEO, searching, advertising, and all the schlock that comes with it. I'm done. If I can in any way purchase something without the web, I'mma do that. I don't hate technology (entirely...) but the web is just a rotten egg now.

Gethsemane · a year ago

Sounds like your laptop is wholly out of date, you need to buy the next generation of laptops on Amazon that can handle the modern SEO load. I recommend the:

LEEZWOO 15.6" Laptop - 16GB RAM 512GB SSD PC Laptop, Quad-Core N95 Processor Up to 3.1GHz, Laptop Computers with Touch ID, WiFi, BT4.2, for Students/Business

Name rolls off the tongue doesn’t it

Gethsemane commented on React for R github.com/react-R/reactR... · Posted by u/rrr_oh_man

jsmith99 · a year ago

I wouldn’t want to deploy a Shjny app externally (although loads of people seem to do so with no problems) but for internal tools it’s incredible. You can make reactive dashboards and analysis tools with no plumbing - just refer to an input when specifying your charts/outputs and they will be automatically plumbed and update automatically.

Gethsemane · a year ago

I agree that it's perhaps not the most robust choice, but at least for my field (bioinformatics) it's a good balance between accessibility and performance. That being said, in most cases when I come across a paper >1 year old presenting the latest-and-greatest Shiny web app, it is wholey broken when I try to use it :|