Titus Brown

I am not a deep man, but I have many shallows. I aspire to be a pro-community culture hacker. mastodon: @[email protected]. He/him.

[Andreas Baumler @abaumler]

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at UC Davis School of Medicine invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in MICROBIOME SCIENCES: https://t.co/UYTrFzJoa8

Apply by Oct 1, 2023

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[UC Davis Health Medical Microbiology & Immunology @UCD_MMI]

The Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology at UC Davis School of Medicine invites applications for a full-time faculty position at the Assistant/Associate/Full Professor in MICROBIOME SCIENCES: https://t.co/UjJx6kCOot

Apply by Oct 1, 2023

[George O'Toole (he/him/his) @GeiselBiofilm]

Microbiology and Molecular Genetics at the University of California, Davis, is recruiting new faculty members in the area Microbial Biology. Pls share.
https://t.co/zrG6OheDHk

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

@dhyasui @ucdavis @genomecenter @BMCDB There's only been one set of comments submitted so far. I don't know if you submitted those, and if you didn't, I would encourage you to submit some. :)

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

@dhyasui @ucdavis @genomecenter @BMCDB enhanced support is definitely in the plan ;)

[bioRxiv Bioinfo @biorxiv_bioinfo]

Indexing and searching petabyte-scale nucleotide resources https://t.co/PoxCju5vYs #biorxiv_bioinfo

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

@nomad421 I use emacs and vim equally - emacs for coding, vim for e-mail. I'm eyeing VSCode tho.

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

😬

[Phil @philofsurprises]

Thank you to my professor @ctitusbrown for urging me learn vim in 2009!

https://t.co/acXqwEpW9B

[Abeba Birhane @Abebab]

New paper!📢
On Hate Scaling Laws for Data-Swamps with @vinayprabhu, Sang Han & @VishnuBoddeti
Paper: https://t.co/cOSdEhU0bR
Code: https://t.co/rfK541SIql

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I received notice that I would be promoted with tenure months ago, but it’s technically not official until 7-1-23. However, I’m not waiting until tomorrow for this.

On July 1, 2023, my tenure and promotion @ucdavis @ucdavisvetmed are official! #tenure #promotion #DevBio 🎉💪🏽❤️

[Cristian Farias @cristianafarias]

Recalling, for no particular reason, when the Supreme Court turned away a group of environmentalists and border communities that couldn’t challenge Donald Trump’s border wall — a sweeping and unprecedented diversion of billions of dollars for a purpose Congress didn’t authorize.

[Penny Walker @Auntpeso]

This dedication page in @m_older’s “The Mimicking of Known Successes.” Yes!

[Malfoy @BQPMalfoy]

Overall we are able to perform large scale comparisons using a fraction of Sourmash ressource (that is already pretty efficient) for the same amount of indexed kmers.

[Malfoy @BQPMalfoy]

And since we pack our superkmers in buckets associated to a given minimizer, we can also optimize the comparisons of dissimilar sketches and globally ensure cache coherency

[Malfoy @BQPMalfoy]

Our latest preprint is out!
We present our take on scalable sketches
"à la Sourmash"
https://t.co/FsxfaLKTk4
A "lightweight" thread:

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

Really nice work by @DavidKoslicki and @saltyscientist et al.: "Deriving confidence intervals for mutation rates across a wide range of evolutionary distances using FracMinHash " https://t.co/odSgd0WwkY - k-mers <=> sketching <=> ANI #bioinformatics

[NYTPitchbot @DougJBalloon]

Naval experts say that the Titan sub likely suffered a catastrophic implosion. But Twitter user @qanoncryptoguy has a very different theory.

[Titus Brown @ctitusbrown]

@taylorpriest2 @AdriAuladell actually: a clumsy trick that sometimes has led to enlightenment:

instead of struggling with checkpoints, write two snakefiles, with one that runs after the first one is complete.

I've found once I get that code working, I can sometimes get checkpoints working more easily.