This little-known trick lets you use Signal without giving out your phone number — Tech Learning Collective
July 17, 2021metabrain QTL
July 17, 2021Brain expression quantitative trait locus and network analysis reveals downstream effects and putative drivers for brain-related diseases by N. de Klein et al., bioRxiv, 2021.
Google Colab Resources
July 17, 2021here are some nice resources on how to use Google Colab
(https://colab.research.google.com/notebooks/).
Tutorials:
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/how-to-use-google-colab/
https://www.tutorialspoint.com/google_colab/index.htm
https://medium.com/swlh/the-best-place-to-get-started-with-ai-google-colab-tutorial-for-beginners-715e64bb603b (this website will ask you to log in and encourage you to pay to access their articles after a few visits, but just open the website in incognito mode so they can’t track your information)
Cool examples:
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/generative/autoencoder.ipynb
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/docs/blob/master/site/en/tutorials/generative/deepdream.ipynb
https://colab.research.google.com/github/tensorflow/lucid/blob/master/notebooks/differentiable-parameterizations/style_transfer_2d.ipynb https://colab.research.google.com/drive/1VLG8e7YSEwypxU-noRNhsv5dW4NfTGce
Cauliflower and Chaos, Fractals in Every Floret – The New York Times
July 16, 2021Caused by 2 genes
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/08/science/cauliflower-fractals.html
Ask a Techspert: What’s a neural network?
July 16, 2021Biology begins to tangle with quantum computing | Nature Methods
July 16, 2021Technology Feature
Published: 23 June 2021
Biology begins to tangle with quantum computing
Vivien Marx
Nature Methods volume 18, pages715–719 (2021)
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“There’s a lot of buzz about quantum computing,” says Yale University researcher Mark Gerstein, whose projects traverse biology and informatics. Enthusiasm among his colleagues about the prospects of quantum computing is especially high in the physical sciences, and interest is growing in computational biology and biology more generally.
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Gerstein co-authored a paper4 that grew from a series of discussions at the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), part of the US National Institutes of Health (NIH). It’s part of the NIH’s way of exploring how to support biologists interested and involved in quantum computing, he says. The wider neuroscience community, for example, is interested in how quantum approaches can be applied to deep learning and machine learning.
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Digital secrets of successful lab management
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“Ironically, a lot of these tools are about not having people sit in front of a screen all the time,” says computational biologist Mark Gerstein at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut. “I don’t think that helps people think.” Instead, he says, researchers spawn creativity when talking and scribbling down ideas together, be that on a phone, tablet, laptop or in person.
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Like Brown, Gerstein prizes face-to-face conversation and
collaboration in his group, which works on large-scale analyses of biosensor and wearable data. As such, it attracts “hard-core computer geeks”, he says, so he’s thought deeply about how to entice them out from behind their screens.
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“Computers now let us dictate, write and draw with our hands in much more relaxing and natural ways,” he says. Gerstein sets his phone on a nearby table, then uses Google Recorder to capture discussions, and the app (which is available only on Pixel phones) transcribes it in real time. The transcript is coupled to the audio and can be searched by keyword. Another dictation app, known as Rev, offers
quick-turnaround manual transcriptions for $1.25 per minute of recording. Gerstein also uses the app Grammarly to “take the yucky voice-to-text transcript and fix the language up quickly”.
Gerstein describes his group’s use of these tools together as a “stack” to go from conversation to a rough draft of a manuscript in just a few clicks, he says. He estimates that the tools cut the time they spent on that task in half.
Gerstein has also investigated tools that digitally recreate the experience of scientists gathered around a whiteboard. Zoom’s Annotate feature is one option, which he has deployed during remote meetings both before and during the pandemic. Another is Rocketbook, a reusable physical notebook ($16–45) that has whiteboard-like paper paired with a mobile-phone app that converts photos of notebook scribbles, cartoons and diagrams into digital files. Both Rocketbook and Google Lens use optical character recognition to interpret handwriting and translate it into searchable text. “I’ve saved thousands of sheets of paper this way,” says Gerstein.
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