I have a hypothesis that if you want your kids to be good at math, let them do this.
1) play an instrument → pattern recognition??
2) go KUMON → calculation practice
3) LEGO block → geometry (space recognition)
4) Discuss → Asking why let them think logically
American science is at extraordinary risk.
NIH has awarded less than half as many grants as it has compared to the past five fiscal years averaged together.
'I thought we were at rock bottom', the official said. 'We are below rock bottom now.'"
@yuki4bioinfo Trinity is cited 19, 000 times meaning it is widely used in scientific community.
Trinity shows even de facto standard tools are at the risk of abandoned.
We need to let the world know how fragile science is but it has HUGE impact for future.
-Not just hyping up AI for Biology
We also need funds to maintain bioinformatics tools.
They are kept updated by individual scientists.
For example, Trinity, one of the most widely used tools for de novo assembly, stopped being updated in 2024 due to a lack of funds.
Elon Musk is an engineer.
Jeff Bezos is an engineer.
Larry Elison is an engineer.
Larry Page is an engineer.
Sergey Brin is an engineer.
Jensen Huang is an engineer.
Turns out capitalism does reward skills and intelligence, and the richest people are indeed engineers.
I sequenced my genome at home, on my kitchen table.
I wrote up exactly how I did it - the equipment, protocol, theory, and cost:
https://t.co/Nkjqaho2zm
something i love about engineering/physics/CS culture is that almost every intellectual resource is available for free. there's a real presumption of non-gatekeeping that is, in my experience, not present in other fields
See, Tech companies are getting into bioinformatics
Biology students, learn Python, Stats and Transformer.
Be prepared for 2030.
https://t.co/8vFrIWM6C8