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Thomas Lumley
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Biostatistician. Baritone. He/Him.

Product of more than one country.
May contain nuts.
Famous NZ comedian John Clarke had an extremely well-known farmer character called Fred Dagg,
(from en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dag_(sl...
Dag (slang) - Wikipedia
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 AM
I would suggest calling it Fred, but that's a very local joke
November 11, 2025 at 2:10 AM
In my field, LLMs are quite useful because there are tasks that are slow to do by hand, easier to check, and not worth learning -- eg "give me the 18-25 populations from these StatsNZ spreadsheets".

The problem, generally, is the many tasks that satisfy the first two conditions but not the third.
November 9, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Along these lines, Houston Rockets player Steven Adams has a famous sister with a bunch of Olympic shotput medals
November 9, 2025 at 6:04 PM
I think we've managed to do that to attach()
November 8, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Reposted by Thomas Lumley
“But Kartik, how do we know the genotypes are wrong?”

Trios! Both cohorts have ~1k parent-offspring trios that were recruited incidentally.

Applying genotype-level QC reduces Mendelian errors by ~60-80% (even in All of Us where they already did genotype-level QC on hom-refs!)
November 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Animals
November 8, 2025 at 5:11 AM
"Italian": fior di latte or lemon or artichoke?
November 8, 2025 at 1:31 AM
Noether's got to be the *best known* woman mathematician from history, even so

(at least if you don't classify Ada Lovelace as a mathematician)
November 7, 2025 at 8:44 PM
I'd do stir fry, but hash (cf colcannon) is another option
November 7, 2025 at 6:56 AM