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QR decomposition isn’t in BLAS, you’re probably thinking of LAPACK.


No. OTOF is the gene symbol. Referring to the gene as otoferlin is perfectly legitimate


Exactly. Also, even if the gene and protein names were different, real scientists wouldn't get hung up on minor technical slip-ups like this, because everyone knows what is meant. (Former cell biologist)


That’s certainly not true in scientific computing. For us, dynamic is very much the exception rather than the rule.


How might one go about making the nuclear family a universal?


Anecdotally it feels that there are growing subsets of people in this country who view the traditional nuclear family as something that must be dismantled as part of the "old system". I imagine it'd be quite difficult to push that notion nowadays.


Arranged marriages.


That’s absolutely not true about Microsoft. They’re very clear about how they use your data. If they’re mining data in secret against their own terms that’s felonious criminal behavior.


> They’re very clear about how they use your data

You lost me there. Every day there seem to be new terms in new places about what they do. I have absolutely no idea if I've managed to find and turn off all the spying that they want to do, and even if I have I assume they still have terms that let them do what they want that they've opted me in to.


I remember when their server visited urls people posted in skype conversations. That was creepy as well.


I think what it comes down to is that it's very difficult to divorce modeling from inference.


It's absolutely not "on the way out". Lots of very slow moving, very deep pocketed organizations working on very long time horizons are heavily invested in HDF5. The same can't be said for any of the flavor-of-the-week ML "cloud-native" file formats.


Does pigz offer any advantages over bgzip?


I spend most of my time in the parallel universe that is scientific computing/HPC. In this alternate reality SQL (not to mention databases) never really took off. Instead of scalable, performant databases, we have only the parallel filesystem. I'm convinced the reason contemporary scientific computing don't involve much SQL is sociological/path-dependency, but there are also very good technical reasons. Optimizing software in scientific computing involves two steps: 1) Think hard about your problem until you can frame it as one or more matrix multiplications 2) Plug that into a numerical linear algebra library The SQL abstraction (in my experience) takes you very much in the opposite direction.


For sure. Anything done in SQL is running on top of a million lines or more of extremely complicated non-SQL code. If that works for a given use case, great, but if not, optimizing can get very challenging. I'd much rather deal with something closer to the metal.


How often do you have markup in the middle of a phrase you're searching for? It seems to me like if that's really important to you, then just don't use a lot of markup?


What's your universal eternally valid rule on judging the importance of a phrase I could use to decide that bold/italic is too much?


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