Professor @hi.is in CS, head of rna seq data analysis at decode genetics (views are mine). Bioinformatician, epistemic trespasser, &c. ps. I hate GTF files
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Here’s a thought experiment. If I were to prompt an LLM to build a website or backend without specifying the framework, just pure vibe coding, what are the odds we would wind up at php
50%50%
33%25%
0%5%
17%.5%
6 votes • Final results
Pall Melsted retweeted
🎓 Laust starf lektors í tölvunarfræði eða hugbúnaðarverkfræði við Háskóla Íslands. Umsóknarfrestur 2. október.
🎓 Open position: Assistant Professor in Computer Science or Software Engineering at the University of Iceland. Deadline 2 October.
hi.is/lausstorf
Every time I open my mouth to talk about AI and the where things are heading and how to navigate the future, I feel like this guy
I visited the US for the first time in 1993 as a teenager. I had no idea until recently how special Crystal Pepsi was for Americans, for me it was novel but then again so was everything else.
It's hard to capture just how surreal the total eclipse was, even though it was cloudy. Darkness came instantly
The clearest signal that a paper is not AI generated is 1. The presence of “the the” and 2. The hyperlinks in the references are to paperpile rather than the original source
Walking home after a grant writing session at work. It’s midnight and the birds are singing, apparently they didn’t get the memo
Pall Melsted retweeted
We are recruiting a PhD student!!! Deadline for applications is June 16th 2026. Please share with your network and feel free to reach out with questions ([email protected])
PhD position in human genetics euraxess.ec.europa.eu/jobs/4…
Did anyone else get 100+ emails from CSHL citation alert? The unsubscribe link seems to leak info about other users. Looks like someone forgot an inner join or a filter
Excited to share this preprint that describes my latest work on using GPUs to accelerate processing of RNA-seq data.
The title says it all: "RNA-seq analysis in seconds using GPUs" now on biorxiv biorxiv.org/content/10.64898…
Figure 1 shows they key result
The only downside to this work is that now I feel frustrated having to wait minutes for classical kallisto to finish
