Maybe a lukewarm take now, but you can no longer expect to succeed well in biology if you don’t have at least an intermediate understanding of programming and statistics.

Without the former, you are going to be wasting a lot of time doing manual work (I kid you not but I see my co-workers waste literal hours gazing at matrices in Excel like they’re gonna land on a significant gene by accident).

Without the latter, you are going to be wasting thousands of dollars in reagents and working time running experiments that never had the hope of succeeding (what do you mean I need more than one replicate?).

Yes you can stick to lab work but don’t expect to get paid more than the average janitor, because you’re competing against literal thousands of graduates who can use a pipette but not R. Maybe if you were a specialist in an expensive niche equipment like flow cytometry or mass spectrometry, but surprise surprise, these kind of equipment require an even more advance understanding of statistics to understand/process the results.

If you’re a biologist who thinks you hate math, I promise you programming is more approachable than high school math, there’s so many tutorials available these days for free that are leagues better than any material from your professor.

Try to get as many opportunities that involve command line work on clusters, analyses with R, and maybe python as well, and you’d be a candidate that would stick above the rest. Programming and statistics is rapidly becoming a common competency, and if you don’t have those skills you won’t be able to compete with people who do.

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It’s significantly more accessible than trying to sync bookmarks with an Ereader’s shitty browser

Ggplot syntax (and tidyverse syntax in general) is incredibly clear when you compare it to the alternatives. Just try to use plotly to do anything simple and it’ll take 6x the time.

But… bash snippet extensions already exist. The only difference is maybe it doesn’t auto name your variables for you. I’d take that over non-deterministic LLM outputs.

Could you import the column in as text to preserve it?

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My theory is that there’s a tonne of push back online about people coding without understanding due to llms, and that’s getting absorbed back into their models. So these lines of response are starting to percolate back out the llms which is interesting.

Lmao, when have age checks worked on any site ever

Tea has theanine which sort of counteracts the effect of caffeine, which is why tea generally has a milder effect. In theory if you switch to decaf coffee long enough you shouldn’t get withdrawals (which is dependent on the concentration/frequency of caffeine use).

2024 lol. Maybe senior dev is an overstatement, he was just more senior than me. He also left a database where the main table had one varchar, freetext column that users wrote multiple fields into because it was a ‘simpler user experience’ . Was a pain to extract all those fields with regex…

Lmao. I once had a senior dev put database passwords into documentation, and then was about to email those out to interview candidates with the passwords ‘blacked’ out. I caught it quick enough before it could be sent thankfully.

plummets

They probably eventually plan to bring back forced labour. They ‘deport’ people, and when that’s too arduous, they’ll round them up in camps and make them work their ‘sentence’.

I don’t think they actually stupid enough to deport their low wage vulnerable workforce when they can just further exploit them.

Jesus christ it must be painful working for such a massive moron.

I love insulated bottles but I can’t find one that’s 1L that isn’t massive…

Don’t forget the death penalty for that Vietnamese robber baron.

Fantastic video, thanks for the recommendation.

I’m quite willing to bet that 70% of the population has no clue that percentages, fractions, and decimals are the same thing.

R and tidyverse is really amazing, the syntax is so natural I rarely need to check the docs on anything to quickly do basic data transformation/plotting. Definitely more intuitive than pandas (and I learnt that first).