Computational biology and genomics
I started learning about bioinformatics back in the days when a lot of bioinformatics was done in Perl. Nowadays I don’t see much Perl used in new tools, which are mostly written in Python or R or both. Perl was dominant back in the day because you could get work done quickly. Perl is a…
As you may have heard, Stack Overflow (SO) and OpenAI have recently announced a partnership, which basically just means allowing OpenAI to train models using data from SO and then selling these models. Kathy Reid summarised the problem perfectly: Like many other technologists, I gave my time and expertise for free to #StackOverflow because the…