Eli Roberson (he/him)
thatdnaguy@genomic.social
<p>Using human genetics and genomics with applied bioinformatics to understand human disease. Just enough stats and server to make me dangerous with data. Well-marbled.</p><p>Lifetime achievement: Making an SRO tell me I might want to remove a grant review budget comment that a specific institutional charge rate was mob level extortion.</p><p><a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Genetics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genetics</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/Genomics" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Genomics</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/RareVariants" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RareVariants</span></a> <a href="https://genomic.social/tags/DNASeq" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DNASeq</span></a> <a href="https://ge
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#Networking #HomeNetwork #Router #OpenWRT I am again at the point where I&#39;m not sure if it&#39;s worth updating the router. It&#39;s *fine*. It runs #DDWRT and is stable. But traveling, especially now that we have fiber, it would be super handy to have built-in #Wireguard. Then when I travel I could bridge a travel router to the host WiFi and Wireguard back to home. Anyone know if there are magical times of the year that #GliNet runs sales? The Flint3 would be a good upgra...
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#DIY #HomeDIY This is your reminder to flush your water heater if you have the storage tank type, and especially if you have a well or hard water. I realized it had probably been 2-3 years since I last remembered to do it, so I did it today. There was much sediment. Much much sediment. 😬
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#Academia #AcademicChatter Watching an symposia on #AI use in #Genetics and #Genomics. At least one person is using corporate LLMs to power their platform to understand SNP-disease associations. I asked if the corporate model use is ethical or do we need ethical models for research use (I mean I don't want them anyway, but that's another thing). Person's answer sums to: I wouldn't say that LLMs are from intellectual theft. It was scraped from the open web so it's ethical...
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Mother forking #Debian. 🤬🤬🤬 "The winners are: Option 5 "Responsible Use of Generative AI" https://lists.debian.org/debian-vote/2026/08/msg00360.html I had hoped this ONE #Linux distro would keep its head.
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You know what floats to the top of my thoughts pretty often? Globally, how much better #Bioinformatics, #ComputationalBiology, and #FOSS #OpenSource software would be with universal basic income. So many people would be happy to keep making their products better for the greater good if they didn't have to worry about shelter, food security, and healthcare.
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I was checking a faculty candidate what the #HPC is offering on its newest iteration of the cluster (that is fee per CPU second use). The high mem instance? 64 GB of RAM. Which is what my &lt;checks notes&gt; decade+ ancient server. Within the last two weeks I was running a relatively simple random forest that needed 80+ GB on version 1 of the cluster. Well I guess I&#39;m not doing that after it&#39;s decomissioned. Which sent me down the rabbit hole. What would it take for me...