blackbirdbiryani

@blackbirdbiryani@lemmy.world

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨So if we're just good with careening into fascism 2.0 what does the future look like?⁩ ⁨⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago⁩:

  Except y’all have nuclear weapons and the rest of us mostly don’t. When you’re done with your local genocides the US will inevitably turn outwards for a scapegoat.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨🐇 🐇 🐇⁩ ⁨⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago⁩:

  Maybe a lukewarm take now, but you can no longer expect to succeed well in biology if you don’t have at least an intermediate understanding of programming and statistics.

  Without the former, you are going to be wasting a lot of time doing manual work (I kid you not but I see my co-workers waste literal hours gazing at matrices in Excel like they’re gonna land on a significant gene by accident).

  Without the latter, you are going to be wasting thousands of dollars in reagents and working time running experiments that never had the hope of succeeding (what do you mean I need more than one replicate?).

  Yes you can stick to lab work but don’t expect to get paid more than the average janitor, because you’re competing against literal thousands of graduates who can use a pipette but not R. Maybe if you were a specialist in an expensive niche equipment like flow cytometry or mass spectrometry, but surprise surprise, these kind of equipment require an even more advance understanding of statistics to understand/process the results.

  If you’re a biologist who thinks you hate math, I promise you programming is more approachable than high school math, there’s so many tutorials available these days for free that are leagues better than any material from your professor.

  Try to get as many opportunities that involve command line work on clusters, analyses with R, and maybe python as well, and you’d be a candidate that would stick above the rest. Programming and statistics is rapidly becoming a common competency, and if you don’t have those skills you won’t be able to compete with people who do.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Mozilla is shutting down Pocket, their read-it-later and content discovery app, and Fakespot, their browser extension that analyzes the authenticity of online product reviews.⁩ ⁨⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago⁩:

  It’s significantly more accessible than trying to sync bookmarks with an Ereader’s shitty browser

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨the lifestyle⁩ ⁨⁨7⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Plotly has the most pain-in-the-ass syntax compared to ggplot2 IMHO. And that’s from a guy who uses a tonne of plotly.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨Why do residential skyscrapers always seem to include balconies that never get used?⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  There are a tonne of apartment balconies that are just afterthoughts by the developer though. I see plenty that are narrow to the point of being useless, or 30 floors up with no enclosed overhang which just generally feels kinda terrifying.

• ⁨Comment⁩ on ⁨I dk lol⁩ ⁨⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago⁩:

  Jesus this community has some of the worst jokes, I can’t believe someone wasted time illustrating this.