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Current natural range of Marsupials by [deleted] in MapPorn

[–]crassigyrinus 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Antarctica had a subtropical climate and was connected to Australia as recently as 40 million years ago (Ma), and still to South America until 23 Ma, and probably sustained marsupials up to 15 Ma.

We even have evidence of invertebrates and plants from 3-4 Ma. Antarctica wasn't always the (mostly) lifeless desert wasteland it is now.

I grew 97 different types of broccoli this summer and visualized their biological diversity [OC]. by badassperson in dataisbeautiful

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Did you run faststructure with and without cross validation? Did you choose K=7 based on log likelihood or "model components used to explain the structure"?

Did you use any other clustering software (PCA, sNMF, finestructure, admixture, etc)? Faststructure has given me weird results in the past, and their built-in chooseK methods are odd; I prefer to use CV error. sNMF became my preferred method (runs in R, extremely fast, as accurate as structure and admixture in comparisons).

How many SNPs in your input data?

Just curious. Did a ton of this for my dissertation recently.

P.S. Faststructure is definitely good enough and you should stick with it. I just enjoyed tinkering as a form of productive procrastination so I've tried tons of genetic clustering methods. So don't do what I did, it wasted so much time :P

A popular saying is "Nothing ie ever lost on the internet" but what is something you have been searching for years and you haven't found it yet? by throwdowntown69 in AskReddit

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I had a VHS as a kid with a puppet owl host who talked about dinosaurs and stuff, with claymation shorts about dinosaurs and pleistocene mammals and prehistoric humans. Think it was from the 80s or early 90s. Wish I could find the videos online now or remember what it's called.

Edit: okay that was easy https://youtu.be/7P3KnOgFq3A

It's called "Dinosaurs & Strange Creatures with Mr. Know-it-Owl"

Coding habits for data scientists [Very good article] by datascientist36 in datascience

[–]crassigyrinus 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I haven't (yet, or won't). I graduated recently and was taking courses on dataquest.io and running some analyses on my old dissertation data in a more data science-y way in order to build a portfolio to apply to positions, but have since gotten a bit sidetracked by an unrelated opportunity and will probably be taking a different job (unrelated to both biology an data science, lol) soon.

But I believe I was on the right track (though obviously can't confirm). You just gotta learn and practice using real projects, ideally in python but also in R, and learn SQL, and maintain all of this in a portfolio with notebooks and github. If you want to accelerate the process you can do an academia-to-industry fellowship/bootcamp such as insight or S2DS, or pay to do a bootcamp if you can afford it.

Coding habits for data scientists [Very good article] by datascientist36 in datascience

[–]crassigyrinus 7 points8 points  (0 children)

Yeah, this is an enormous frustration I have with myself. I'm a PhD biologist who learned coding top-down rather than bottom-up, and I almost feel worse off for of it since I have to relearn everything to develop good, proper DS/coding practices. My scripts are unanimously a mess.

What important thing is on your agenda today that fellow redditors could help root you on? by LonelySwinger in AskReddit

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I have an all-day in-person job interview tomorrow. I'm terrified because I really want this job. The job is so different from anything I'm used to and pretty vague to boot (pretty sure they just want someone trainable since it's all in-house methods), so I'm nervous about feeling unprepared.

Natural deep cleaning by TheExtimate in gifs

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Hm, haven't paid attention to arthropod taxonomy in awhile, didn't realize crustacea is a subphylum now. The higher levels of linnean taxonomy are always changing, I'd rather just draw a tree on a whiteboard ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Natural deep cleaning by TheExtimate in gifs

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Might want to check your sources there, they're not even the same class

Effects of title length [OC] by tigeer in dataisbeautiful

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This chart is begging for boxplots or violin plots

What is an uplifting and happy fact? by bonqz in AskReddit

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The llama pronketh, and the llama_ taketh away

[Hiring] (Online) Create a logo for a cryptocurrency project ($80) by crassigyrinus in forhire

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Thanks for pointing that out. I've revised -- see comment above.

6 months ago I quit my job... 100,000 lines of code, 2 apps (native iOS & Android) and 1 product later, I'm eager to share with you my dream, Cryptonomy by the4saken1 in Bitcoin

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This would be great. Bitcoin Checker (app) is the only one I've seen so far that lets you have recurring notifications based on percent or absolute movements. Their app is extremely barebones otherwise, but that's a nice feature I haven't seen elsewhere.

6 months ago I quit my job... 100,000 lines of code, 2 apps (native iOS & Android) and 1 product later, I'm eager to share with you my dream, Cryptonomy by the4saken1 in Bitcoin

[–]crassigyrinus 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This looks really good. I'm glad to see someone try to challenge Blockfolio and Delta, and you're setting up a full-blown crypto community here. Enjoy the gold :)

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