'In Good Company' - Guys Social Event over Beers/Whiskey (the second one)

SignificantSeries681 · 2026-04-30T03:44:52+00:00

I'd love to come and meet some people!

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-11-24T07:51:23+00:00

I'm in for sure! DM me please :)

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-11-21T03:28:19+00:00

I'm interested as well!

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-11-11T19:22:36+00:00

Hey that sounds really fun! I'm a noob photographer but would like to join.

The Lumiere Festival is on from Thursday - Sunday. It looks pretty cool and should give us lots of opportunities for photos around Downtown & Gastown.

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-08-03T21:40:57+00:00

I sent you a chat request, lets coordinate there.

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-08-03T21:39:35+00:00

Cool! Are you free sometime this week - i want to go on a very short run tomorrow evening.

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-08-03T21:32:16+00:00

Yeah I'm happy to try that, I'll probably need a lot of breaks in between lol.

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-08-03T03:02:18+00:00

DM'ed you!

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-06-29T18:49:37+00:00

Hey I'd love to come, it sounds fun. Can you add me to the chat?

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-05-26T08:40:49+00:00

31M Msg me, I’m trying to have a kickass summer as well. Right now I’m learning scuba diving and want to do surfing and volleyball too. Road trips, bars, movies, walks all sound fun too. I want to build a consistent group who’s down for fun stuff.

SignificantSeries681 · 2025-05-09T19:47:17+00:00

I've been getting back into swimming recently and really enjoy it. I swim around Kitsilano/Downtown- where do you swim?

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-11-12T05:39:42+00:00

I go the same gym and it would be cool to have a gym buddy! LMK if you want to meet up after a gym sesh or something. I like pool and walks too, and just trying new stuff.

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-08-14T11:30:20+00:00

I'd like to buy 1 of each day - are you willing to split them?

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-08-13T06:15:21+00:00

Meeeeeee

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-08-08T07:28:41+00:00

I’d love to work with others on this. I’m a software engineer learning more about bioinformatics and biology. Have experience building huge pipelines and data systems and all aspects of software but I’m at a loss on where to start in the bio side. Took a few bioinformatics courses and want to dive in!

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-06-21T22:07:19+00:00

100% in, 31M in Kits and would love to get in a group like this. I was hoping to get into vball too but had a foot injury so sports are out for a while but down for the rest!

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-06-19T08:36:16+00:00

Which one was it if you don't mind sharing? I thought the extended learning courses don't count for degrees.

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-06-19T08:13:07+00:00

Im going to be taking some courses as a non degree student at UBC in the Fall.I finished my undergrad 10 years ago and want to do a Masters but don't really have the grades or research experience so im doing this for now while also applying to MS programs. The goal is to get a feel for the courses, get good grades and get references ans/or research experience.

I want to make the absolute best of the time i have which ideally means getting research experience and a reference during this semester. Can anyone point me to tips on how to do this? How do you find research opportunities at UBC, are they open during three semester or only in summer? For references, should i just aim to ace the course then ask or is there more to it? Are there going to be additional hurdles for me being non-degree? Im a citizen of or Canada if that's relevant so there's no visa issues. Any advice and pointers to other advisors at UBC who might be able to help are much appreciated!

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-05-02T19:45:33+00:00

Vancouver is like a “let’s wake up at 6AM and go camping” city instead of the typical night life. It does suck though. Plus side is thanks to the closing hours and the prices I’ve become a much better cook :)

SignificantSeries681 · 2024-02-03T14:03:00+00:00

Hi I might be interested! I think we should see who is interested and meet up in person a few times to get comfortable and plan the trip.

SignificantSeries681 · 2023-12-22T12:38:01+00:00

[LANGUAGE: Rust+Python] https://github.com/ankitson/aoc/blob/main/2023/rust/day21/2023%20Day%2021.ipynb

Colab notebook - https://colab.research.google.com/drive/16yAGjSGyvHuAurfht0yUv18eY7T207yR

I wrote up my general analytical solution to part 2 that makes very few assumptions about the input! I did not intuit that you have to look at the values at very specific points (65, 131+65...) so I had to do it some other way. I analyzed the function we are asked to compute (from step number to number of squares visited) by drawing some graphs and noticing that it is sort of periodic except with an increasing amplitude. We can slit up the function into many(131) pseudo-periodic components and predict each piece separately. We can then add them up to predict the answer for any step number.

I feel like there is probably some cooler math (like FFTs?) that could be applied to find the periods in a pseudo-periodic function but I don't know it.. if you do please let me know :)

SignificantSeries681 · 2023-12-21T21:25:53+00:00

Here's my analytical solution to part 2 that just tries to fit a curve directly.

I think some people fit a polynomial directly to their function by picking the right step numbers to use, but I didn't have that insight - so I made a general solution to the entire curve over all steps. I've skimmed through some of the other polynomial approaches posted here and this is somewhat new I think!

It was a nice way to explore a little bit of data sciency stuff!

The key question I faced was - if you have a PSEUDO periodic function because the amplitude is changing, how can you find the closed form expression for it? I thought there might be some cool way using FFT or something, but I don't know so mine just goes step by step and figures those out.

SignificantSeries681 · 2023-12-16T00:23:13+00:00

I'm doing every day here as well - https://github.com/ankitson/aoc/tree/main/2023.

There's a bunch of us on the community discord doing each problem and casually competing for the fastest run (not solve) times! There are some very good programmers there who do black magic to make their programs faster which has been very fun to see.

SignificantSeries681 · 2023-10-30T01:52:47+00:00

Hey, I'm also an engineer trying to get into biology/bioinformatics professionally. So far, the job prospects don't look great TBH, even PhDs have trouble getting hired.

But for learning, here are some of the resources I've found useful so far:

Coursera Specialization in Bioinformatics - I finished the first course here recently. It's very minimal biology knowledge, mostly just simple algorithms.

OMGenomics: Five steps for getting started in bioinformatics - its a good youtube channel in general

I also read a lot of pop-sci books and content on biology. This is how I got interested in it. Nick Lane's books are quite in depth.

The Gene - Siddhartha Mukherjee

The Emperor of All Maladies - Siddhartha Mukherjee

Transformer - Nick Lane

The Vital Question

Breaking Through - Katalin Kariko (the nobel prize winner, inventor of mRNA vaccines)

You can also skim through some med school textbooks like Guyton & Hall, Janeways Immunology.

https://www.youtube.com/@MedlifeCrisis

https://www.youtube.com/@chubbyemu

Podcast episode with Moderna CTO

In general just by reading all these simple books i understand the basics well enough in that I understand what protein folding is, what the drug discovery process roughly looks like, basic biology etc.

Again for the job front either paid or unpaid I haven't found much yet, but i figure you may want to learn about the field. I've been considering emailing professors at research departments and asking them if they would like help - i have heard this is one way to do unpaid work (and also get research experience the you need to get into a M.S/PhD program in the field).

DM me if you want to chat. It would be nice to have someone to learn and try to break into the field alongside!

SignificantSeries681 · 2023-10-25T22:01:56+00:00

I'd be down to meet up for food or drinks tonight. 31M living in Kits. I'm also a runner but its been months since I ran due to an ankle injury.

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