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Learning in Public

A short essay on writing about what you're learning

Two new chapters from my open-access textbook in human population genetics are now online: - Population structure: I. Ancestry estimation - Population structure: II. More about admixture web.stanford.edu/group/pritch...

Diffusion and flow matching generative models implemented with XGBoost instead of neural networks! arxiv.org/abs/2309.09968

I’m shocked, shocked to see similar results to those from MSFT research ( www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... ) suggesting that we have nowhere near enough high quality data to train large nonlinear models

Assessing the limits of zero-shot foundation models in single-cell biology

bioRxiv - the preprint server for biology, operated by Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, a research and educational institution

🧹 TidierData.jl v0.14.2 for Julia brings new features: - `where()` is now supported everywhere that uses tidy selection 👇 - `slice()` has been fully rewritten to support interpolation and use of functions inside it - `is_number()` is newly supported github.com/TidierOrg/Ti...

Just discovered the root of a #rstats bug emerging only every 100,000 iterations 👇... (coercing is always dangerous, but I had not seen that one coming)

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Reminder that the Big Ten Academic Alliance Fee Waiver program gives waivers for 15 schools' PhD programs (including OSU astro and OSU physics) for US citizen students w/ 3.0+ GPAs and diverse backgrounds! Easy form to complete due by Nov 15. btaa.org/resources-fo...

Hey, Leon. I have a recount3 question and DMed you on Twitter :) figured that you may not use it that often and find you here