Nachiket Vartak

Group Leader - Bioimaging: intravital imaging , cell biology, and always with imaging. Views personal.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@asherrkiinee 29

[Dr. Thomas Ichim @exosome]

Today we all lost our jobs.....

Three Nature papers showing that scientists in the conventional sense are obsolete

At least read the first one.... the AI replaced all things that the scientist does ....

https://t.co/zMsRLaaRDU

[Ali Max Erturk @erturklab]

Today in @Nature, we report MouseMapper: foundation-model AI to map disease perturbations across the entire mouse body cell-by-cell.
In obesity, it revealed body-wide inflammation & unexpected facial nerve damage. 🧵👇🔉
https://t.co/BERf5GQ10Z led by @Dorie00 & @yingchen733

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@794Shinpei This is not surprising at all. DMSO has a wide range of effects that have been known for years. https://t.co/FhtECPuuDp

https://t.co/Ha01fGspJK

And so on...

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@TheEricEkberg @Schuldensuehner No. Because in order to encourage solar, the government has provided price guarantees to the producers. The producers know they are going to get paid. This means Germans are paying for electricity they cannot/do not use as if there is a shortage. It's beyond ridiculous.

[ksa 🏴‍☠️ @kosa12m]

Best paper I've read so far this month:

All elementary functions (sin, cos, tan, exp, log, powers, roots, hyperbolic functions, π, e, and even basic arithmetic) can be generated from just one binary operator:
eml(x, y) = exp(x) − ln(y)
…plus the constant 1.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@EterRadioApp Thanks, I revoked Mic access from Eter, which fixes the issue. Really, there should be a Setting within Eter that disables Shazam completely.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@EterRadioApp Eter on macOS keeps trying to grab the microphone when connected to Bluetooth headphones. This causes repeated interruptions. I don't even know why it needs Mic access. There seems to be no option to turn this off.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

It seems the ensh*tification of @Affinity has begun..
https://t.co/REAuos4uAG

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

I found PyFasma: an extremely useful package by @nkourkou @KrgUoi integrating Raman spectral preprocessing and classification. Congratulations ! https://t.co/haF5LyGUbH

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

Just informing people that would want to know. @mpimoph @SantosLaB8

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

It is with great sadness that I learn Prof. Philippe Bastiaens passed away today. Philippe was deep thinker, passionate scientist and my mentor. I feel this loss acutely.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@renu3m @dnjoshispeaks It is embarassingly elitists that you are embarrassed by how people use cutlery. I eat with the fork in my right hand, and knife in the left. In 18 years of living in Europe, people only have asked if I was left-handed and no one was bothered about it.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@NikoMcCarty However, I have always felt skeptical about Mendel reporting 7 traits - all of them monogenic, when we know today that most phenotypic characteristics are polygenic. He must have undoubtedly seen polygenic inheritance. Did he cherry-pick?

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@CoderUday There is a different between writing text and writing a book. The vast majority of ‘software programming’ is about skill set. But acquiring the skills to paint does not necessarily give to the creativity to think of *what to paint* to make art.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@bhav_paaji @sanjana_writer Don’t do that. Ever. It doesn’t work for any serious workflow because the iPadOS apps are all handicapped. Better off with a MacBook Air.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@ShwetaKukreja_ IPhones are not expensive compared to other flagship phones for eg from Samsung. The difference is that Apple only makes flagship phones, while other manufacturers make a range of budget phone too. Can you imagine the anti-trust lawsuit Apple will have if Apple Music was free?

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@vegasmike @PhysInHistory And one of them has supporting evidence.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

@HaoYin20 @JanBroderEngler In general R has horrible syntax due to the way packages are written. Python is the future.

[Nachiket Vartak @nashv]

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