I've been working an a small Julia library for working with raw nanopore sequencing signals. It's still under development and not very mature, but maybe someone may find it useful and want to experiment with it. It provides functionality for signal-to-sequence alignments, basic signal scaling […]

Настане вечер, слънцето не залезе. звезди се не виждат по свода небесен. Кестен зашуми, вятър повее. В Норвегия е лете.

My new favourite genre: clueless rich folks trying to use commencement speeches to preach their AI religion getting booed.

Horrific stories of systematic rape and sexual torture of Palestinians perpetrated by the Israeli state and settlers in the occupied West Bank. Nothing new, but it's good that this NYT article has caused some outroar […]

❤️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_mzYS-ET8o

Quite beautiful sunset in Oslo today:

Old man yells at Claude✨

Three times hurrah for the Brussels bureaucrats! https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2026/04/20/eu-to-force-replaceable-batteries-in-phones-and-tablets-from-2027/

I’m preparing some slides for our lab meeting and I just looked back at the slide titles and they wonderfully illustrate how good I am at science: “False results”, “More confusion”.

This morning I woke up to this piece of news in The Economist: “The share price of Allbirds more than quintupled after it announced it would stop making comfy shoes and become an AI and cloud-computing firm. Having sold its footwear brand last month, Allbirds will use a $50m finance facility to […]

If you are a European Union citizen, there is a concrete way you can support a peaceful resolution in Iran and Gaza: you can demand the full suspension of the EU-Israel Association Agreement in view of Israel’s violations of human rights. #peace #palestine #Iran THREAD 1/

Iceland Air is running a search for the worst photographers in the world so they can fly them to Iceland to take photos of Iceland. https://reallybadphotographer.com

More and more of the basic functionality of the internet doesn't really work for me, as it seems websites rely on one or another tracking or ad bullshit that is blocked by my browser extensions. Very often the Cloudflare captcha protection wouldn't accept that I'm not a bot, blocking my access […]

Dear Nanopore folks, could you give an advice about an issue that my lab has with direct RNA sequencing on MinION. We're doing RNA004 sequencing of various samples and again and again, there's a staggering amount of reads with just repetitive AAG triplet. This happens for weird IVT RNA and […]

RE: https://mastodon.bsd.cafe/@stefano/116351332975013254 I'm all for electric cars, but if I had to buy a car today, I'd probably still have to go with an old petrol one from the time before all manufacturers decided that cars should be wheeled motorized smartphones.

* Claude code source "leaks" in a mapfile * people immediately use the code laundering machines to code launder the code laundering frontend * now open source knockoff in python and rust What's anthropic going to do, sue them? Insist in court that LLM recreating copyrighted code is a […]

The european mind cannot comprehend how americans need a three month campaign to organize a one day protest.

Lord, please give me the perseverance and tenacity of a pundit writing learned articles day after day, analysing the policy of Donald Trump, as if the guy is not actually just three manic toddlers in a trenchcoat playing a word leader and winging it.

A rare moment where you root for regime change in all three countries involved

Am I doing this capitalism thing right?

Does anyone know if an NVidia RTX 4060 can handle an Mk1D MinION with runtime basecalling? ONT's documentation says that the minimum requirement is an RTX 5060, but this sounds a bit crazy. And the difference between the two GPUs is not that big I think. Also, this will mostly be for dRNA-seq […]

I remember when the FIFA Peace Prize used to mean something

@kevinbonham.com (I hope that bluesky picks up the handle) @Kbonham . Yes I used BinaryBuilder and there's a jll package in Yggdrasil https://github.com/JuliaPackaging/Yggdrasil/tree/master/S/slow5lib

I made a small wrapper library for reading slow5/blow5 files in #julialang based on the C slow5lib. If anyone working with #Nanopore sequencing is interested, you can find it here: https://codeberg.org/mzdravkov/Slow5.jl

Today I took advantage of an almost sunny day in Oslo (a rare occurrence in these lands) and had a nice walk in Lillomarka by lake Maridal.

Geology museums are neat because they're just an institutionalized version of "come check out this neat rock I found."

TIL: In KDE's Dolphin file manager, you can just click on the path entry box and enter "fish://username@hostname" and have access to a host's file system over SSH. How cool is that.

"If our kidnapping business line is not popular, then why do we have so many monthly active users" - Boko Haram spokeperson says after getting an inspiration from tech companies' AI strategy.

I was asked by a 20 year younger friend how my internet was back then. I needed a moment but then I told her the story of an IRC channel and how we made the day for a young girl who happened to be on our IRC channel. Because this is what my internet was like back then and I wish sometimes it […]

Holy fucking shit! The EU commission is showing teeth! ❤️ https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_25_1085

I love Canada for a lot of reasons but petty, passive aggressive moves like this make me proud. #canada #uspol

W00T In #DuckDB 1.2.1 you can just do: ```bash $ duckdb -ui ``` to get this !

Fabulous, more of this, please: https://www.404media.co/french-university-to-fund-american-scientists-who-fear-trump-censorship/

European security as a LOTR meme: Ukraine: I'll fight Mordor. Baltic countries: You have my sword. Nordic countries: And my bow. Netherlands and Poland: And my axe. France, Germany, US, etc as the great elven kings: Here's some bread, clothes and nice trinkets for your journey. Good luck!

I've written a small Python library for parallel fitting of multiple Gaussian Mixture Models instances. It supports both CPU and GPU and it's significantly faster than scikit-learn. Here's the code repo if you're interested: https://codeberg.org/mzdravkov/gmm_gpu #gmm #statistics #ml #bioinformatics

ChatGPT both sides the vim vs. emacs debate, when we all know vim is clearly superior.

The countries of the West seem to be in race to completely hollow out all their talk about international rules-based order. Poland announced that they'll disregard the ICC's arrest warrant for Netanyahu and now Switzerland signals that they're ready to host Putin for a meeting with Trump. Both […]

So I've deactivated my facebook profile a few times in the last couple of months and every time, after I while, I'm told that it has been reactivated again. Apparently, you have to select "This will be temporary, I'll be back" and then you're asked how soon your profile should be reactivated […]

I'm considering using some form of license that forbids AI training on the source code for any open source projects that I release. I'm not sure I'm opposed to the idea generally (it's okay if the models are truly open source, for non-commercial purposes, etc). But I guess it's always easier to […]

I finally spent the time today to do something I've postponed for maybe couple of years now and moved from Spotify to Tidal. In case anyone has been putting such a transition off because they're afraid of the tedious process of migrating all their playlists, this tool worked very well for me […]

Frankly, it's embarrassing to look how all the big shots from Silicon Valley are tripping over themselves to lick Trump's ass. To have more money than the GDP of most countries in the world (including midsized developed countries) and yet to be unable to keep even a shred of basic dignity is […]

Ah, the magic of proper database indexing and query composition! A select query with a join on an SQLite table with 260M rows that used to take 28+ minutes got down to less than 2. Even though I had a proper covering index, the SQLite query planner was getting confused and did not use it. A […]

A great short article by Tim Snyder https://snyder.substack.com/p/decapitation-strike