Daan de Groot
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dhdegroot.bsky.social
Daan de Groot
@dhdegroot.bsky.social
Postdoc at Biozentrum in Basel. How do single cells decide what to become? What to do? When? Where? In fact, how do humans?
Let us know what you think after reading everything!
May 15, 2025 at 8:46 AM
I'm surprised you're the first to make this joke. Congrats
May 15, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Represent the data by a tree structure! That’s the idea that @erikvannimwegen.bsky.social‬ proposed 3 years ago, and what we’ve been working on ever since. It came with many theoretical and computational challenges, but now I’m confident that we’ve created something truly worthwhile.
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
and UMAP are so popular, even though everyone agrees they severely mess up your data? It's because there was nothing better, and some data, just demand a visual tool for exploration. Indeed, it’s hard to beat UMAP in the low-dimensional embedding game, unless you just change the game:
May 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM