Sean Kross
@seankross.com
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Staff Scientist at the Fred Hutch Cancer Center. seankross.com
Ten years of pizza rat
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This is a cognitive science joke
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Shiny for Python for Humans for America
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10 days ago
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True terror is to wake up one morning and realize that ChatGPT is running the country.
20 days ago
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Love Island is the inverse of the Gulag Archipelago.
28 days ago
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The good news is your Jekyll site is now building successfully. The bad news is every time you built it, your computer requires a tiny little drop of blood.
28 days ago
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Many years later, as he faced the firing squad, Gregor Samsa was to remember that distant afternoon when his father found himself transformed in his bed into a monstrous vermin.
about 1 month ago
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I know not with what genres TS12 will be crafted, but TS13 will be a country album.
about 1 month ago
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As a lover of Bayesian modeling software I’m a Stan stan.
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500 prompts per month with Zed feels like when cell phone plans only included 200 SMS messages per month. I think 30 MMS messages were included too!
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You Don’t Mess with the Zofran
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Seen in Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA, USA
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I don’t care about what anything was designed to do, I care about what it can do.
about 2 months ago
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Perl and Jeb! have the same vibe.
about 2 months ago
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y, for lack of a better model, equals mx plus b
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Chesterton’s pothole
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about 2 months ago
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The first thing I did when I turned on my company-issued laptop at Microsoft Research was type “Satya Nadella” into the Teams chat search bar and his picture and profile popped up! Of course I didn’t message him but I got a kick out of the fact that it was theoretically possible.
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about 2 months ago
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We're going to get GTA VI and AGI before we get real-time collaboration on drafts of emails in Outlook.
about 2 months ago
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Hyperscalars
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“A movie star.” “A pro quarterback.” “I want to be a computational fluid dynamics engineer.”
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about 2 months ago
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You have a dopamine addiction. You have a serotonin addiction. You have an acetylcholine addiction. You have a glutamate addiction. You have a norepinephrine addiction. You have a histamine addiction. You’re definitely addicted to GABA. And we all know you’re an adrenaline junkie.
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2038 is sooner than we think
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about 2 months ago
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His work is so timeless. This year alone I’ve been sending so many of his songs to friends. Like like in May when JDV claimed the Apollo program was “built by American citizens.”
youtu.be/QEJ9HrZq7Ro?...
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If it quacks like a milkshake duck
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American crutches should be illegal.
2 months ago
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Doctors vibe-prescribing. Surgeons doing vibe-surgery. Nurses vibe-nursing.
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Sean Kross
Openscapes
3 months ago
✍🏼 "Taking stock" to support infrastructure and people at the Fred Hutch. Wrap-up post for our 2025 Fred Hutch Openscapes Champions Cohort. Thank you to Mentors Sitapriya Moorthi,
@tladeras.bsky.social
, Chris Lo,
@seankross.com
openscapes.org/blog/2025-07...
#OpenScience
#KinderScience
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Placename, one word, with 3 a’s, 3 b’s, and 2 t’s 😵
3 months ago
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We should study what happens to the brains of people who read the ChatGPT is Bad for Your Brain paper.
3 months ago
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Sykes-PCOS Agreement
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“They got a get.” “They got got.”
3 months ago
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California sober and Maryland kosher are conceptually congruent.
3 months ago
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I’m looking for very specific response to: I cannot live another day without air conditioning.
3 months ago
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4 months ago
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This is a real screenshot.
4 months ago
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Thank you NSSD for accompanying me across three cross-country trips, not to mention countless bus, plane, and train hours.
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4 months ago
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Looking to meet somebody this summer, does anyone have a mundane, rectangular, angsty, and controversial friend?
5 months ago
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Part of my hiring process is we play a middle-difficulty level of Overcooked until we get three stars. Ideally two overlapping but unrelated entrees like pizza and burgers.
5 months ago
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Written by professor Sally Bowles.
www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/o...
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Opinion | I Teach Computer Science, and That Is All (Gift Article)
Politics has no place at universities or in the classroom.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/02/opinion/work-school-classroom-politics-harvard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.EU8.DsiE.Ntl5t9RpSz2N&smid=url-share
5 months ago
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Mr. Miyamoto, can you please explain to the jury the difference between the national dex and the Hoenn dex?
5 months ago
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reposted by
Sean Kross
Monica Gerber
5 months ago
"rOpenSci and Openscapes are lucky to have as members many U.S. federal employees who enrich our work and community. In a time of great uncertainty for so many government workers, we want to support our members who are considering their next career steps."
ropensci.org/events/datas...
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Non-Government Career Paths for U.S. Federal Data Scientists
A community support and networking event hosted by rOpenSci and Openscapes
https://ropensci.org/events/datasci-careers-feds/
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Sean Kross
Jeff Leek
5 months ago
The Cancer AI Alliance (
www.canceralliance.ai
) is hiring for a full time Director of Operations role
careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29460/c...
This role will drive execution across legal, financial, research compliance, philanthropy, and business development.
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Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center
Fred Hutch is dedicated to the elimination of cancer and related diseases as causes of human suffering and death.
https://careers-fhcrc.icims.com/jobs/29460/cancer-ai-alliance-%28caia%29-operations-director/job?mode=view&mobile=false&width=719&height=500&bga=true&needsRedirect=false&jan1offset=-480&jun1offset=-420
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I always end up in these situations where I need to access a Bitcoin ATM and I can’t find one anywhere!
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Sean Kross
David Rothschild
5 months ago
Do you have strong programming skills but need research experience doing meaningful & exciting CSS projects before head off to a top graduate school for a computational social science PhD? Apply now to predoc
www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...
with me,
@dggoldst.bsky.social
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@jakehofman.bsky.social
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Predoctoral Research Assistant (Contract) – Computational Social Science - Microsoft Research
Are you a recent college graduate wishing to gain research experience prior to pursuing a Ph.D. in fields related to computational social science (CSS)? Do you have a deep love of “playing with data”—...
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/opportunity/predoctoral-research-assistant-contract-computational-social-science/
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The Last Fat Man in San Francisco: Changing Beauty Standards for MSM in the Age of GLP-1 Agonists
6 months ago
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This Dire Wolf story is a perfect non-partisan encapsulation of why public trust in legacy media is at an all-time low.
6 months ago
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If I was going to get a first tattoo I would get a tattoo of Data Organization in Spreadsheets.
6 months ago
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Sean Kross
Scott
6 months ago
Digital biomedical infrastructure is built on AWS. Simply getting data in/out of AWS, and managing access can be difficult to navigate. This friction motivated us to build sixtyfour, an AWS interface that will feel familiar to
#rstats
folks. Let us know what you think!
recology.info/2025/04/sixt...
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sixtyfour: writing robust code against AWS
Introduction At work (Fred Hutch Cancer Center) we’ve been working on an R package (sixtyfour) over the last ~1.5 years. This post is a quick intro to the package with some learnings about working wit...
https://recology.info/2025/04/sixtyfour/
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Sean Kross
Jeff Leek
6 months ago
Public health biostatistics has always been incredibly important; but in this moment even more so! Consider nominating an early career biostatistician for our field's most prestigious award:
www.spiegelmanaward.org
by May 1! This is an opportunity to highlight how biostatistics helps so many people
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Mortimer Spiegelman Award
https://www.spiegelmanaward.org/
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We will have AGI before we have a single bench in Moynihan.
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