Week 27 (30/06-04/07/2025)

👾 IT

• Uv vuild backend hits the production (link).
• Beautiful write-up on how to speed-up character occurrence in Python (link).

🔬Science

• Short write up on 2024 nobel price winners professors Hopfield and Hinton for their contribution in AI (link).
  • Interesting how Waddington landscape is portrayed in the article
• Another milestone for personalized medicine, baby receives personalized CRISPR treatment to correct CPS1 mutation inherited from both parents (link) (link).
  • The mutation is fatal, inability to remove ammonia (side product when protein is broken down) from blood
• Specific sound frequency can influence gene activity and modulate cell fate (link).
• Unfortunate statistical mistakes in Sun et al., clearly explained by Lior Pachter (link).

🔗 Links

• Thoughts on writing PhD suing Typist (link).
  • spoiler alter: probably not yet as the product is not mature yet
• Commentary of John Marioni on drug discovery with AI @ Roche(link).

🔧 Tools

• shshemi/tabiew: TUI for the table formats
• bluewave-labs/checkmate: self-hosted monitoring platform
• keplergl/kepler.gl: Geospatial analysis tools
• pyutils/line_profiler: Line by line profiling for Python