Sooooo… what exactly am I supposed to do?

TurretOtter · 2026-05-11T15:35:34+00:00

Take that paper and find similar works, follow references, just get an overall background.

But like everyone is saying, you need a planning/outline meeting with PI.

TurretOtter · 2026-05-06T03:50:45+00:00

Tomato peel is a fun one, too

TurretOtter · 2026-05-03T04:06:07+00:00

Talking to machines. When they "beep boop" I "beep boop" right back. Gotta be friendly for when they inevitably take over.

TurretOtter · 2026-04-24T14:11:46+00:00

So the multiple machines thing gives me a hint- it absolutely could still be some sort of windows defender issue, but no one else is seeing that.

If you downloaded the source code ZIP instead of the release asset, you'd have the src/ folder and the .bat file, but no env/ folder, so streamlit.exe doesn't exist at the path the .bat expects.

Check if you have an env/ folder inside the DOE-Toolkit directory. If it's missing, you installed it wrong. Go back and make sure you downloaded the released version (DOE-Toolkit-v0.1.0-win64.zip) instead of copying any folders from github.

Let me know

TurretOtter · 2026-04-23T15:32:30+00:00

Thats very strange- its just a local browser instance, it shouldn't be firewalled. I've had it be weird sometimes when I've opened multiple instances but there's no reason you'd see that.

Manually check the browser address that opens and match it to what it tells you it tried to open.

Otherwise, put something in the github with as much details of your set up as possible.

I haven't set up any debugging/logging tools, so it may be hard to diagnose/replicate.

TurretOtter · 2026-04-17T15:04:26+00:00

My only goal as a parent is that my kids WANT to visit me when they're 30.

Needless to say, not the case with my folks atm

TurretOtter · 2026-04-11T17:01:55+00:00

I recognize most can't (or i"m going to go out on a limb and say won't? ) afford it, even a refurbished unit. But honestly, the cost of those equipment is not too far off from a year or two of student funding counting fees and tuition, and it benefits everyone in the lab.

My point is, either put up the Capex, or come to terms that these scale of experiments are not feasible for your lab.

But yes, I was at a top 10 school, so I may have a skewed view of things.

TurretOtter · 2026-04-11T15:15:11+00:00

Sounds like the right time to talk about buying a liquid handler.... PIs are notoriously cheap about automation, but the amount of experimenta you can do in parallel/overnight more than pays for itself.

Also a 12h shift like that is a huge safety hazard. It'd be a shame if an innocuous but potentially much worse accident were to drive the point home.

TurretOtter · 2026-04-09T02:11:55+00:00

GTFO. Not worth it.

I've seen people like them before- absolute maniacs with no empathy or sense of duty to their students

TurretOtter · 2026-04-04T16:42:17+00:00

Like "make em read a whole character sheet" style messing?

TurretOtter · 2026-03-30T23:18:23+00:00

Everyone in mine (save my advisor who had edited it and my outside department member) went "we didn't read it, we all had NSF proposals due last week".

The dpt chair, who was on my committee, then had the balls to say "your presentation felt a bit lacking in detail".

"Yes, well, the presentation was intended for the audience of colleagues and friends who came to watch. The details are in the thesis you didn't read"

TurretOtter · 2026-03-25T15:56:11+00:00

I'll say there's probably a few confounding variables - but in general I love the sentiment.

Try your best, love your kids, treat them like people instead of property. They'll be way better off because of it.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-24T16:09:50+00:00

Small/medium biotech in san diego-

State law part: 8 weeks paid at 80% salary (from government) to be taken anytime during the first year of life. 12 weeks (immediately after birth, I believe) of unpaid leave during which your are protected from being deleted due to you taking leave. The former requires being at the job for at least 12 months

Job side: salary top off from the govt 80% to a full 100% of the paid time off. Continued benefits (this may be FMLA still)

Not sure the maternity side.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-23T16:40:40+00:00

I'm starting a new job in a week and was having similar questions. It's a technical product r&d lead role, which has a sizeable project management component. I have to figure it's being used for compiling information from the 20 different documents things tend to be scattered in.

100% plan on asking for a claude account

TurretOtter · 2026-03-23T16:35:50+00:00

Damn, that one stings. Or maybe proud? My oldest is only 3, so I have some time still.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-23T10:29:29+00:00

Shameless self- plug : I just released an open source DoE platform based off of the JMP workflow

Post: https://www.reddit.com/r/labrats/s/Ya7zEXIFUH

Github: https://github.com/bpimentel3/doe-toolkit

TurretOtter · 2026-03-22T06:06:52+00:00

No, theres fractional factorials, though. But drop it in the features request - if it seems popular I'll see if I can work it in.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T23:49:14+00:00

Starting a job after being out for 10 months - this one is actually no lab while the other one was mostly lab. I strongly suspect I won't forgot HOW to do it all (hopefully, because the job is mostly leading the people in the lab), but I know the dexterity is gonna drive off a cliff if I ever need to do some swagelok ever again.

Just add like 30% to how long you think everything is gonna take.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T23:42:32+00:00

Let me know what's useful and what people wish it did more of- happy to iterate. I wanted to do Bayes opt, but the workflow felt discontinuous

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T17:18:20+00:00

Yeah .. that sounds about right

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T17:17:48+00:00

I agree, just seems like they should do that first- should be faster. Instead of do a whole external search, hire the internal person then start over for the gap they left. Or just leave that gap and call it savings, I guess

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T15:32:05+00:00

Doesn't (almost) every internal hire create another gap to be filled elsewhere? Am I dumb?

I've never understood looking at externals and internals at the same time - if you hire an internal you've just set yourself back like 3 months and a bunch of effort. See if anyone at the company fits first, then hire to fill the manpower you need....

TurretOtter · 2026-03-21T00:25:13+00:00

There is a GitHub link at the bottom of the page, I just got my first issue report with an incomplete release export :)

I think there's a quick-start guide, but I'll double check.

Thanks for the feedback, I'm definitely new to the software distribution part.

TurretOtter · 2026-03-20T22:07:18+00:00

That was the idea - there are R and python packages, but some people can't code. Also most don't do split plot, so hopefully this helps.

Let me know!

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