Abhijit Dasgupta (he/his/him)

I got hundreds of professional headshots using the magic of AI from a bunch of regular photos. Take a look at this service secta.ai/ref/4z1smc?t

“You want to gather data to determine which of two students is a better basketball shooter. You plan to have each student take N shots. Roughly how large does N have to be for you to have a good chance of distinguishing a 30% shooter from a 40% shooter?”statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2024/05/04/you/

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On the bridge of the container ship Dali, 4 minutes from disaster, there's one critical moment we haven't heard about yet. The very moment the ship lost power the 1st time. What did the pilot do, right then? His first thought, apparently, was safety — the bridge looming ahead. —> ⤵️ NTSB photo of the bridge of the Dali...

@drob Academia has higher standards for "is it publishable". The current scandals at Harvard sort of puts paid the "is it true" part

Academia has higher standards than industry for “is this true?” Industry has higher standards than academia for “is this useful?”

@jaredlander I've been using neovim for R for a while, and use slime +tmux+ssh to work with R on remote servers. VS Code is nicer, but sometimes as an editor neovim is just faster in moving things around.

When I'm not using RStudio, I use VS Code. These videos quickly got my neovim to be a decent competitor. It's nice to have that extra option.

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He 5X'ed AstraZeneca's productivity from pre-clinical to phase III completion and transformed the company's R&D strategy, culture and approach to innovation. I spent hours researching Mene Pangalos. 10 key principles from his leadership playbook:

@BhramarBioStat @UMich @umichsph @UMRogelCancer Congratulations

@umichsph @BhramarBioStat @UMich Congratulations

🆕@BhramarBiostat, @UMichSPH John D. Kalbfleisch Collegiate Professor & chair of Biostatistics, has been named Distinguished University Professor, @UMich's highest professorship for exceptional senior faculty & their contributions to academic excellence ➡️myumi.ch/2me9p

@mehdirhasan Actually I agree that all 18 yo should have to pass the citizenship test as a requirement for graduation. Otherwise our naturalized citizens are better prepped for citizenship than our natural born kids

You’ll never guess which GOP presidential candidate, whose name rhymes with Zizek, became a U.S. citizen thanks to the constitutional guarantee of birthright citizenship.

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Just hired a 21yo for their first job. What basic professional advice do they need? Here's what I tell all my new staff, but perhaps you can add. I'll start small. 1/ Use an online calendar. Have a foolproof system of reminders, so you never forget a deadline or obligation.

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Traditional academic writing styles suck. Don't make your paper dull, dense, and inaccessible. Create an irresistible masterpiece with these paper section templates. Here's how: ↓

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16 databases of scRNAseq datasets. 👇 🧵 Reuse them! #singlecell #bioinformatics

Join me for R/Medicine Virtual Conference 2023! cvent.me/0XvrkZ?sms=2&c… #rmed2023

121-23. Way to surprise me, Texas.

This coronation, though a very British affair, felt VERY American, with Ritchie, Perry and the Muppets. Britain has talent. Why not display it? #Coronation

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I am at least 3-5x more productive using ChatGPT to code. Not only am I faster writing code I'm familiar with, but I've even shipped apps in tech stacks I'd never used before. Here's my process, the prompts I use, and why it all works:

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ChatGPT is just a single star in the AI galaxy. More than 1,000 new AI tools were released last week. Here are 8 insane AI websites that will save you hours of work:

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RLHF is dominating the headlines thanks to GPT-3 and GPT-4. Reinforcement learning can be a difficult subject to approach, though. Here's how you can get started:

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Want to improve your #Python geospatial skills? Check out my new video tutorial series covering spatial data analysis and visualization with #Pandas, #GeoPandas, #XArray, #Dask, #STAC #OpenRouteService API and more. Many more in the pipeline. I'll post these in the thread below👇