marcin p. joachimiak

@vivek_mutalik Interesting, did they also provide a cost estimate? :) We may be close to a 1M species now when counting MAGs. But 'understanding function' is a little vague -- lots of HT and computational predictions out there, maybe we need better definitions and assessment.

Whitehouse released much awaited executive order report 🔥 on “Bold goals for biotech & biomanufacturing” One of the 😳goals: “In 5 years, sequence the genomes of one million microbial species and understand the function of at least 80% of the newly discovered genes” 🤯

Congrats to @sanyabt11 et al! Opening up an important domain for machine learning and graph analysis sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

"That's why it's very important for companies to be careful about what they are collecting because if you don't build it, they won't come." washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

"After fall of the Soviet Union, there was thaw in US-Russian relations in 90s, and during that period, McDonnell Douglas ( later Boeing) worked with Russian firm Zveda-Strela to develop a derivative of the Kh-31 for US military as high-speed targets" bit.ly/3RJvGIz

“We will see a lot of tax dollars and government resources that should be used to stop gun crime being used to defend gun laws that are lifesaving and wildly popular”

“The gun rights movement has been given a weapon of mass destruction, and it will annihilate approximately 75% of the gun laws eventually,” apnews.com/article/gun-vi…

"It’s also not unusual to hear African leaders and even a few Western scholars arguing that the Chinese system of meritocratic autocracy is a better route to middle income status for countries such as Kenya." dnyuz.com/2022/08/03/ken…

"And because it is effectively privately owned by Ellison, there are no other commercial farms on the island" sfgate.com/hawaii/article…

"the duo spent hundreds of thousands of dollars in an ultimately successful effort to remove San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin, plus three members of the San Francisco Board of Education, during separate recall elections." sfgate.com/politics/artic…

'He is strenuously anti-abortion rights; he wants to repeal what’s left of the ACA; he’s against = for LGBTQ; he even voted against the watered-down 2021 infrastructure bill that actually managed to get 69 “yes” votes in the usually impenetrable Senate' bit.ly/3U2Rhxr

"beneficiaries of the energy tycoons' combined spending include the farthest-right members of the legislature and authors of the most high-profile conservative bills passed in recent years" cnn.com/2022/07/24/pol…

"That's what younger users right now seem to prefer" axios.com/2022/07/25/sun…

"Africa accounts for the smallest share of global greenhouse gas emissions, at just 3.8%, in contrast to 23% in China, 19% in the US, and 13% in the European Union." cdp.net/en/research/gl…

"Between 1850 and 1990, ninety-six percent of redwoods disappeared due to logging”

"According to the the US Forest Service, $1 billion worth of wood is illegally looted each year." nypost.com/2022/07/23/the…

"Those dogs that did survive acquired more diverse gut microbiomes, helping them further in digesting more carbohydrates associated with life with humans."

"The second was that some dogs evolved a better capacity to digest starches following the agricultural revolution, which is why some modern dog breeds have more copies of the AMY2B gene that creates pancreatic amylase." france24.com/en/live-news/2…

"Hartwell's blood-alcohol content was .17/.18 at the time of the crash and she had two prior drunk driving convictions and multiple convictions for driving on a suspended license" sfgate.com/news/bayarea/a…

🎥>>🗣️ #3! @realmarcin's KGMicrobe (276K N, 525K E) embedded using 🍇's #Rust + #Python implementation of Jeffrey Pennington's GloVe model with @phanein's DeepWalk & Walklets sample, unsupervised training. 💻:github.com/AnacletoLAB/gr… 🧵(1/2) DeepWalk #GraphML #MachineLearning

"Some of the oil products re-exported by India went in shipments bound for the United States, Britain, France and Italy" nytimes.com/live/2022/06/2…