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This fucking sucks and is terrible for America
Unless I'm reading this badly wrong and the administration puts out contrary implementation, it would appear that starting tonight, anyone with an H-1B who doesn't write a $100,000 check to the US government is banned from reentering the country if they're currently outside the US.
September 20, 2025 at 12:47 AM
This fucking sucks and is terrible for America
Big day for Vortex!
I have about 100,000 variants of the 1kG+HGDP dataset loaded into Vortex and have been working on a statistical & population genetics benchmark.
I think the open source infa is finally ready for a new generation of analytical tools for genetics!
I have about 100,000 variants of the 1kG+HGDP dataset loaded into Vortex and have been working on a statistical & population genetics benchmark.
I think the open source infa is finally ready for a new generation of analytical tools for genetics!
Vortex is incredibly exciting, we’ve already made plans months ago to make it the primary format we will be storing our data in on object storage! www.linuxfoundation.org/press/lf-ai-...
LF AI & Data Foundation Hosts Vortex Project to Power High Performance Data Access for AI and Analytics
Contributed by SpiralDB, Vortex is an extensible, next-generation columnar storage format designed for building high-performance, future-proof data systems
www.linuxfoundation.org
August 6, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Big day for Vortex!
I have about 100,000 variants of the 1kG+HGDP dataset loaded into Vortex and have been working on a statistical & population genetics benchmark.
I think the open source infa is finally ready for a new generation of analytical tools for genetics!
I have about 100,000 variants of the 1kG+HGDP dataset loaded into Vortex and have been working on a statistical & population genetics benchmark.
I think the open source infa is finally ready for a new generation of analytical tools for genetics!
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100,000 Participants scanned ✅
We are delighted to have completed the world's largest whole body imaging project, scanning the brains, hearts, abdomens, blood vessels, bones and joints of 100,000 volunteers.
We are delighted to have completed the world's largest whole body imaging project, scanning the brains, hearts, abdomens, blood vessels, bones and joints of 100,000 volunteers.
July 15, 2025 at 7:46 AM
100,000 Participants scanned ✅
We are delighted to have completed the world's largest whole body imaging project, scanning the brains, hearts, abdomens, blood vessels, bones and joints of 100,000 volunteers.
We are delighted to have completed the world's largest whole body imaging project, scanning the brains, hearts, abdomens, blood vessels, bones and joints of 100,000 volunteers.
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I so enjoyed talking to my colleague Carlos Lozada about migration. It was a rich conversation drawing on our writing, reporting and personal experience. You can read (or even better, listen!) at the his gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
Opinion | The World’s Best and Brightest Are Moving, but Not to America
www.nytimes.com
July 9, 2025 at 5:36 PM
I so enjoyed talking to my colleague Carlos Lozada about migration. It was a rich conversation drawing on our writing, reporting and personal experience. You can read (or even better, listen!) at the his gift link. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/09/o...
@polgreen.bsky.social fantastic to hear you and Carlos Lozada together again discussing our now.
I find this rootlessness or out of placeness can also arise among so-called native born Americans who travel from rural hometowns to urban centers in search of acceptance and opportunity.
I find this rootlessness or out of placeness can also arise among so-called native born Americans who travel from rural hometowns to urban centers in search of acceptance and opportunity.
July 10, 2025 at 9:13 PM
@polgreen.bsky.social fantastic to hear you and Carlos Lozada together again discussing our now.
I find this rootlessness or out of placeness can also arise among so-called native born Americans who travel from rural hometowns to urban centers in search of acceptance and opportunity.
I find this rootlessness or out of placeness can also arise among so-called native born Americans who travel from rural hometowns to urban centers in search of acceptance and opportunity.
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W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
June 11, 2025 at 12:42 PM
W.E.B. Du Bois on Robert E. Lee:
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
“Either he knew what slavery meant when he helped maim and murder thousands in its defense, or he did not. If he did not he was a fool. If he did, Robert Lee was a traitor and a rebel–not indeed to his country, but to humanity and humanity’s God.”
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looks like an objective assessment to me
Breaking: ABC News says senior national correspondent Terry Moran "has been suspended pending further evaluation." This since-deleted tweet is the reason for the suspension:
June 8, 2025 at 4:37 PM
looks like an objective assessment to me
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“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
June 8, 2025 at 4:40 AM
“Tasted a little tear gas— tasted like fascism”
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I think this is a strategic mistake, and it is buying into a model of political communication that is incompatible at core with Democratic political goals
NEWS:
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democratic mega-donors are debating plans to spend tens of millions of dollars on a range of influencer plans to "find the liberal Rogan."
We've got pitch decks, investor meetings, and internal docs.
One Democrat has a spreadsheet of 26 different proposals.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/20/u...
Democrats Throw Money at a Problem: Countering G.O.P. Clout Online
www.nytimes.com
May 20, 2025 at 10:21 PM
I think this is a strategic mistake, and it is buying into a model of political communication that is incompatible at core with Democratic political goals
Vortex has joined the Linux Foundation! github.com/vortex-data
Vortex
Vortex is an extensible, state-of-the-art columnar format meant to replace Apache Parquet. Formerly at @spiraldb, now part of the Linux Foundation. - Vortex
github.com
May 16, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Vortex has joined the Linux Foundation! github.com/vortex-data
I find the migration patterns of ancient humans endlessly fascinating
A large-scale genomic study in Science of over 1500 individuals from 139 underrepresented Indigenous groups across northern Eurasia and the Americas sheds new light on the ancient migrations that shaped the genetic landscape of North and South America.
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
Learn more: scim.ag/4mi1yUf
From North Asia to South America: Tracing the longest human migration through genomic sequencing
Genome sequencing of 1537 individuals from 139 ethnic groups reveals the genetic characteristics of understudied populations in North Asia and South America. Our analysis demonstrates that West Siberi...
scim.ag
May 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
I find the migration patterns of ancient humans endlessly fascinating
I had a lot of fun with Twisted Metal
If you could only play one PS1 game for the rest of your life, what would it be?
May 16, 2025 at 2:23 AM
I had a lot of fun with Twisted Metal
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I really don’t get this crisis of masculinity. I just don’t.
You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things.
Just don’t be a dick.
You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things.
Just don’t be a dick.
May 2, 2025 at 8:54 PM
I really don’t get this crisis of masculinity. I just don’t.
You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things.
Just don’t be a dick.
You can join the Army or become a paramedic or live in the woods. You can wear camo. You can go hunting or fishing. You can be a little rowdy. I’ve done all these things.
Just don’t be a dick.
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This genuine rage is the only rational response from anyone who is bearing witness right now, and this man is my anger translator. It is so easy to go numb, to sublimate the molten anger into dark humor and try to endure. But someone has got to yell it out so a whole theater can feel it together
April 21, 2025 at 12:31 AM
This genuine rage is the only rational response from anyone who is bearing witness right now, and this man is my anger translator. It is so easy to go numb, to sublimate the molten anger into dark humor and try to endure. But someone has got to yell it out so a whole theater can feel it together
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If you're at #IcebergSummit, be sure to come see our CEO and Founder @will-manning.bsky.social
present on Turbocharging Apache Iceberg scans with Vortex!
present on Turbocharging Apache Iceberg scans with Vortex!
April 8, 2025 at 3:10 PM
If you're at #IcebergSummit, be sure to come see our CEO and Founder @will-manning.bsky.social
present on Turbocharging Apache Iceberg scans with Vortex!
present on Turbocharging Apache Iceberg scans with Vortex!
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Sympathy for every cool company suddenly seeing their parts get way more expensive for no reason
32% tariff on Taiwan? Good thing there's not a major semiconductor manufacturing company located there
April 2, 2025 at 10:09 PM
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📃 I am excited to share our @naturegenet.bsky.social review paper on the state of psychiatric genetics in Latin America, put forth by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC)! 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Psychiatric genetics in the diverse landscape of Latin American populations - Nature Genetics
Latin America and the Caribbean remain largely underrepresented in psychiatric genetics research. This Review highlights the need for more research in these populations to advance genetic insights and...
www.nature.com
April 2, 2025 at 3:24 PM
📃 I am excited to share our @naturegenet.bsky.social review paper on the state of psychiatric genetics in Latin America, put forth by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC)! 🎉
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange, recently pledged to give away half his family's wealth to charity. He's speaking at Cooper Union in NYC this Thurs with Alexander Vindman on the question of how to rebuild economic mobility in an age of widening income inequality
cooper.edu/events-and-e...
cooper.edu/events-and-e...
March 17, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Jeff Atwood, co-founder of Stack Exchange, recently pledged to give away half his family's wealth to charity. He's speaking at Cooper Union in NYC this Thurs with Alexander Vindman on the question of how to rebuild economic mobility in an age of widening income inequality
cooper.edu/events-and-e...
cooper.edu/events-and-e...
I mean, yeah, this was my immediate reaction too, but I think that's unfair.
I've had to explain the difference between a GPU and a CPU and how to use multiple cores effectively so many times without a nice graphic. I'm glad this exists!
I mean sure, maybe I'd rather this didn't say "AI".
I've had to explain the difference between a GPU and a CPU and how to use multiple cores effectively so many times without a nice graphic. I'm glad this exists!
I mean sure, maybe I'd rather this didn't say "AI".
March 17, 2025 at 6:26 PM
I mean, yeah, this was my immediate reaction too, but I think that's unfair.
I've had to explain the difference between a GPU and a CPU and how to use multiple cores effectively so many times without a nice graphic. I'm glad this exists!
I mean sure, maybe I'd rather this didn't say "AI".
I've had to explain the difference between a GPU and a CPU and how to use multiple cores effectively so many times without a nice graphic. I'm glad this exists!
I mean sure, maybe I'd rather this didn't say "AI".
ChatGPT is shockingly effective at explaining assembly. I think it made a couple tiny mistakes about exactly what the cmovbe was doing, but it gives enough useful context that I, a very-non-expert at reading x86 assembly, can understand what is happening in this code.
chatgpt.com/share/67d867...
chatgpt.com/share/67d867...
ChatGPT - Assembly Code Explanation
Shared via ChatGPT
chatgpt.com
March 17, 2025 at 6:21 PM
ChatGPT is shockingly effective at explaining assembly. I think it made a couple tiny mistakes about exactly what the cmovbe was doing, but it gives enough useful context that I, a very-non-expert at reading x86 assembly, can understand what is happening in this code.
chatgpt.com/share/67d867...
chatgpt.com/share/67d867...
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since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
March 15, 2025 at 12:10 AM
since she was 8 months old
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
www.jsonline.com/story/news/l...
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One of the things I love about Paris is the amount of great cinemas. However, it’s sometimes difficult to follow what’s playing at any given time.
This weekend I built a site to show all the movies on one page: seance.paris
It’s still a work in progress, but go give it an early spin!
This weekend I built a site to show all the movies on one page: seance.paris
It’s still a work in progress, but go give it an early spin!
Cinéma Parisien - Séances de Cinéma à Paris
Trouvez les séances de cinéma à Paris et les horaires des films dans les salles parisiennes
seance.paris
March 7, 2025 at 7:16 AM
One of the things I love about Paris is the amount of great cinemas. However, it’s sometimes difficult to follow what’s playing at any given time.
This weekend I built a site to show all the movies on one page: seance.paris
It’s still a work in progress, but go give it an early spin!
This weekend I built a site to show all the movies on one page: seance.paris
It’s still a work in progress, but go give it an early spin!
Unsure if you're doing #bioinformatics? Are there two columns with seemingly the same meaning but not equal? Is one of them a technical artifact that probably shouldn't be in this file anyway?
If yes, then, congratulations: you are indeed a capital-B Bioinformatician. Welcome and/or I'm sorry.
If yes, then, congratulations: you are indeed a capital-B Bioinformatician. Welcome and/or I'm sorry.
February 27, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Unsure if you're doing #bioinformatics? Are there two columns with seemingly the same meaning but not equal? Is one of them a technical artifact that probably shouldn't be in this file anyway?
If yes, then, congratulations: you are indeed a capital-B Bioinformatician. Welcome and/or I'm sorry.
If yes, then, congratulations: you are indeed a capital-B Bioinformatician. Welcome and/or I'm sorry.
I wrote a little about using zone maps to save time by avoiding I/O when reading data in a query engine.
There's really a lot of subtlety in zone maps and metadata! I think I'm still parsing all the insights I found in "Big Metadata" by Edara & Pasumansky.
blog.spiraldb.com/zone-maps-or...
There's really a lot of subtlety in zone maps and metadata! I think I'm still parsing all the insights I found in "Big Metadata" by Edara & Pasumansky.
blog.spiraldb.com/zone-maps-or...
Zone maps, or “queries go brrr”
Waiting sucks. Let's use zone maps to move fast and read less.
blog.spiraldb.com
February 25, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I wrote a little about using zone maps to save time by avoiding I/O when reading data in a query engine.
There's really a lot of subtlety in zone maps and metadata! I think I'm still parsing all the insights I found in "Big Metadata" by Edara & Pasumansky.
blog.spiraldb.com/zone-maps-or...
There's really a lot of subtlety in zone maps and metadata! I think I'm still parsing all the insights I found in "Big Metadata" by Edara & Pasumansky.
blog.spiraldb.com/zone-maps-or...