Helena Reyes Gopar
hamarillo.bsky.social
Helena Reyes Gopar
@hamarillo.bsky.social
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Researching human endogenous retroviruses using sc sequencing data 🏊🏼‍♀️ 👩🏻‍💻 🇲🇽 LCG UNAM alumna 🧬
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There's been endless talk about an AI bubble, but less about exactly how, why, and how much it's a bubble. So I turned to the framework put forward by scholars Brent Goldfarb and David A. Kirsch, authors of "Bubbles and Crashes," for assessing tech bubbles.

Spoiler: On a scale of 1 to 8, AI is an 8
AI Is the Bubble to Burst Them All
I talked to the scholars who literally wrote the book on tech bubbles—and applied their test.
www.wired.com
Why aren’t language models acting/interacting like a graph? (Or are they? Idk). It seems so obvious that while human conversations are iterative, they’re nonlinear and that’s how you get to the point/good stuff
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The strongest argument I keep hearing for AI is that it makes many admin tasks and paperwork easy. This basically rephrases what many have been saying for decades - there is a vast and unnecessary administrative bloat mandated by “business best practice” that needs to vanish.
Doesnt it have to do with memory instead?
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Yesterday I attended Harin’s excellent defense where he talked about this study, which is a great reason to give it another shoutout.

Does population size affect the diversity of the music that people listen to? Really nice example how to make use of a DAG in practice!
Are housekeeping genes now the ones we see expressed in every single single-cell cell?
🫠😂😭
That’d be because it’s the people haha not the projects
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We just launched Foursquare Spatial Desktop – a geospatial analysis tool powered by embedded DuckDB and built on sqlrooms.org. Everything runs locally: your data stays on your machine, no cloud needed. A modern reimagining of Kepler.gl. Mac only for now. More coming.
foursquare.com/products/spa...
Thrilled to share this work! I am honored to learn from @mlbendall.bsky.social and so grateful for his guidance and mentorship.

Stellarscope is just the beginning!

There is so much to learn about TEs and now we can all explore the uncharted territory of single cell retro-genomics 🧬🔭
Thank you for sharing. This is so important as it takes one single generation to lose sometimes as fundamental as a 'native' language, this has been the case for a lot of people in Mexico who migrate seeking education and irreversibly exchange precious things for it ❤️‍🩹
e.ga
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do you ever stare at the ceiling and think about how the worldwide scientific establishment did the impossible and created a COVID vaccine in under a year and the response of the general public has been to go on an unstoppable rampage to destroy science and scientists
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Sad news:

The dataset behind this famous chart on the decline in costs of genome sequencing has had its NIH funding cut.

I loved this chart because it was the first that made me appreciate the impact of dataviz. But it also tracked progress towards an ambitious goal ($1000 genome) that succeeded.
Unhinged 🚪 channel? 😋
Like, ls() and the output can be -ltr

I am just a simple girl with big dreams
(and adhd lol)
All ask for is the equivalent of ls -ltr
Do you know if it has it?
One old fish needed to sense its environment and now I have to floss every night

(Isn’t evolution the coolest thing ever?! 👹🌀🧬🤗)
I wonder if easy-to-remember memories that are accompanied by ‘negative’ strong emotion (i.e. the opposite of insight?) follow the same or a different pathway in the brain activity
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Been horrifying teammates by referring to undocumented information that's held only in people's heads as "locked in meat storage".

Please use this with your teams/projects and report back on how they like it?