Bojing Blair Jia
bojingjia.bsky.social
Bojing Blair Jia
@bojingjia.bsky.social
MD/PhD student @ UCSD
Quant Bio @ McGill
Third culture misfit
I study the DNA as a data structure
I just love Prof Pevzner's 'style' and creativity for problem solving. But in his class he once lauded the Burrows-Wheeler transform as a stroke of genius, and wished 'in [his] life he could ever come up with something as ingenious'. Iconic humility!
June 8, 2025 at 1:36 AM
Yeah the kmer Bloom filter is a classic! I feel reviewers are entitled to voice opinions on tool names. Although, my stance has always been not to use nicknames because they rarely inform anything about its function
February 26, 2025 at 9:49 PM