blackbirdbiryani

joined 2 years ago
[โ€“] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Maybe a lukewarm take now, but you can no longer expect to succeed well in biology if you don't have at least an intermediate understanding of programming and statistics.

Without the former, you are going to be wasting a lot of time doing manual work (I kid you not but I see my co-workers waste literal hours gazing at matrices in Excel like they're gonna land on a significant gene by accident).

Without the latter, you are going to be wasting thousands of dollars in reagents and working time running experiments that never had the hope of succeeding (what do you mean I need more than one replicate?).

Yes you can stick to lab work but don't expect to get paid more than the average janitor, because you're competing against literal thousands of graduates who can use a pipette but not R. Maybe if you were a specialist in an expensive niche equipment like flow cytometry or mass spectrometry, but surprise surprise, these kind of equipment require an even more advance understanding of statistics to understand/process the results.

If you're a biologist who thinks you hate math, I promise you programming is more approachable than high school math, there's so many tutorials available these days for free that are leagues better than any material from your professor.

Try to get as many opportunities that involve command line work on clusters, analyses with R, and maybe python as well, and you'd be a candidate that would stick above the rest. Programming and statistics is rapidly becoming a common competency, and if you don't have those skills you won't be able to compete with people who do.

[โ€“] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I typically hate the force mumbo jumbo aspect of star wars but I thought the force healer bit was way more nuanced take about the force than other examples in recent films. My interpretation is that he saw his own death, and still chose it anyway. So he still had a lot of agency rather than just being a pawn of fate.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 1 month ago

It's significantly more accessible than trying to sync bookmarks with an Ereader's shitty browser

[โ€“] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Are nutrient belts reliable? I ended up belting bioflux since that lasts two hours, and just putting a biochamber for nutrients at each factory (with spoilage backup that doesn't require nutrients).

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Agree, I've used both top/side loaders and side loaders are perfectly fine despite their lower water usage.

[โ€“] [email protected] 14 points 2 months ago (7 children)

It's all great until they eventually revoke your lifetime pass too and make it a subscription. If you think corporations won't do something scummy like that I have a bridge to sell to you.

[โ€“] [email protected] 2 points 2 months ago

Ggplot syntax (and tidyverse syntax in general) is incredibly clear when you compare it to the alternatives. Just try to use plotly to do anything simple and it'll take 6x the time.

[โ€“] [email protected] 3 points 3 months ago (1 children)

The water in Melbourne is some of the best water I've had, next to Tasmanian bore water. Adelaide hands down has the worst though.

[โ€“] [email protected] 4 points 3 months ago

The Moon is a Harsh Mistress is also my favourite book!

[โ€“] [email protected] 7 points 3 months ago

Lmao mate you're on lemmy

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