karmel

Right? The good news is companies are getting there; the bad news is it will still take some time to get to us. If I were Queen of the World, I would have made more liberal use of the governmental ability to centralize efforts towards testing and PPE production ... last January.

This is fantastic! I will check it out, and potentially add it to my list of other fun things can I do with a PCR.

Thanks! (Not the poster here but I wrote the blog post.)

Guilty as charged. And though I haven’t had a chance to read the Ed Yong article yet, I agree with the general stance that it’s surprising we understand anything at all about immunology, and what we do understand is incredibly surface level. As someone who has worked with both software/tech and science, I encourage you all to learn more about immunology— it’s a giant, multi-agent network that is incredibly complex, but the limitations of tooling mean we study it one parameter at a time, mostly using rudimentary classification frameworks (eg, cell types as determined by particular cell markers), rather than large data-driven approaches.

While many companies still use Python 2.X, they are sufficiently similar that I would recommend learning 3 and retrofitting your knowledge set if necessary later on.

Berkeley has a tool-lending library which is useful for the once-in-three-years that you need a ladder or a belt sander: https://www.berkeleypubliclibrary.org/locations/tool-lending...

Can we all agree that choosing a photo of Kevin Spacey when talking about bad bosses is in really bad taste at this point in time? I get the House of Cards reference, but...