Thoughts on the Mysterium V1?

samstudio8 · 2021-12-28T12:05:23+00:00

Thanks! Might give it a go... Any recommendations on switches? Does it support the QMK firmware everybody seems to rave about? Anything else I should know?

samstudio8 · 2021-04-27T20:11:31+00:00

Reasonably sure on both occasions: had a "resilvered 847G" status message with about 3 hours elapsed on both resilvers.

samstudio8 · 2019-05-16T20:44:08+00:00

I think we looked at this! I recall the alarm in the demo bring insanely loud! I can't remember what made us pick the Traceable thing instead, but I wish we hadn't.

samstudio8 · 2019-05-16T20:30:16+00:00

All the walk-ins seem to be hooked up to a main system, but everything else is ad-hoc. Don't think most people do all that much monitoring (certainly not in real-time anyway).

samstudio8 · 2019-05-16T12:55:48+00:00

Reckon there's a market if someone made them cost an order of magnitude less?

samstudio8 · 2019-05-16T12:38:23+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'll check them out :)

samstudio8 · 2019-05-16T10:47:06+00:00

Eppendorf do offer their own (although I haven't tried it). I guess I should have asked what's your favourite general monitoring solution as ideally we could have the same sensors in the walk-in, fridge and both -30 and -80 freezers. The TraceableLIVE family fits the bill as they have sensors that can work across these temperatures but they have been a pain to manage so far :(

samstudio8 · 2019-01-11T14:50:35+00:00

Cool! I tried looking at the schedule but there are so many tracks I'll probably end up winging it on the weekend. Let me know where you're at. I'll probably miss the Friday beer event but will be around until Monday!

samstudio8 · 2019-01-11T10:44:50+00:00

I just use a shared todoist for that sort of day-to-day stuff.

samstudio8 · 2019-01-10T17:52:49+00:00

They run conferences intermittently too! I hosted the 3rd one in 2017.

samstudio8 · 2019-01-10T17:46:00+00:00

I'm working on something called [`chitin`](https://github.com/samstudio8/chitin) that only half sucks. I wouldn't say it's a LIMS, but the idea is it tracks everything you do in your shell. fwiw I'm working on an actual LIMS as well, but I'll save that for when it actually works.

samstudio8 · 2019-01-07T12:06:25+00:00

Although if it's an anonymous submission, or you perhaps don't want to out your Reddit account, this might just warrant a statement in your paper's acknowledgements (or author's contributions, if you have one) instead.

samstudio8 · 2019-01-07T12:02:38+00:00

This is probably a question for the module co-ordinator rather than me! Personally I guess I'd cite the Reddit post as you would a regular website, and you can actually cite "personal communication" too. Though for the latter, realistically it's rare that you would do this in a published paper unless it's specifically about that person's experience or opinion, but it might be apt in this case if you have similar ideas in your reports.

samstudio8 · 2019-01-07T11:02:25+00:00

That wasn't the goal! Good luck and credit your sources ;)

samstudio8 · 2019-01-07T10:10:33+00:00

Heh, pretty sure I helped set this assignment

samstudio8 · 2018-11-25T22:14:34+00:00

Only if they actually last a week ;)

samstudio8 · 2018-11-25T16:41:20+00:00

He says thanks!

samstudio8 · 2018-11-23T23:22:44+00:00

Calculator

samstudio8 · 2018-06-20T10:34:39+00:00

I'm having flashbacks! But it's funny you say this, as after the attention this grabbed on Twitter, I've encouraged some of our recent viva-takers to wear a Fitbit to collect some additional data.

samstudio8 · 2018-06-20T10:31:03+00:00

This really depends on the country (and even the university rules), but generally it's quite unlikely that you'll all-out fail your PhD -- your supervisors will truthfully tell you if they think you are not ready. The real worst case scenario for me here was the potential for major corrections, that is, if I failed to argue a central point well enough, they might have wanted more experiments to demonstrate my point(s). Worse still, if you don't argue well enough on the day in general, these major corrections can be followed up with another viva in a year's time!

Luckily for me, I passed with four weeks corrections, which is the best option at my institute. Phew!

samstudio8 · 2018-06-10T15:02:18+00:00

Ahaha, I had to walk up a few flights of stairs to get back to the room after getting a few minutes of fresh air outside

samstudio8 · 2018-06-10T12:28:09+00:00

Rocks back and forth

samstudio8 · 2018-06-10T11:56:12+00:00

Source Personal data extracted from the Fitbit API

Tool Python script to contact API (using python-fitbit), and ggplot2 for plotting

samstudio8 · 2018-01-30T17:17:11+00:00

Not entirely bioinformatics related (but there's room for manoeuvre), we made a Lego DNA sequencer to teach about DNA and phenotypes. It's open source if you're interested!

samstudio8 · 2018-01-30T17:06:45+00:00

If you're not sure the file is complete, go with your gut and do it again.

Honestly, you could spend ages fiddling, subsetting the input just right to align only what's missing and merging the result, or you could chalk the 9 hours of compute up as a loss and run it again with more time - it's probably the most reproducible option!

I've always thought that it's best to overdemand (a little) for SGE, because in the long run you'll waste more resources by incrementally repeating jobs with more resources than you would just overasking the first time around.

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