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Stanford scientists discover new Ozempic alternative with RegEx (twitter.com/lauriewired)
28 points by haxiomic 1 day ago | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments






Regex in Python on FASTA files.

This takes me back to when I was a student!

I'm feeling nostalgic now.


Would be good on a T-Shirt

My favorite is lines 32 and 64.

You didn't believe it then, but you better believe it now: RegEx is the final boss of both code and science.

"Everybody stand back! I know regular expressions!" https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/208:_Regular_Expr...

Everyone knows that to understand metabolism you should use a parser.

I have used regex for chart analysis for stock trading. I mapped chart states to characters, then matched character patterns using a regex. It was a very sensible thing to do that gave me tremendous flexibility with very little code.



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