Our new course, "From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion", is finally done after 8 months of work!!!
With >30 hours of video content (all free, no ads!), you'll learn how to create and train a Stable Diffusion model starting from pure Python 🧵
fast.ai/posts/part2-2023.htm…
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It's happening: I'm writing a *book* on how to use colors in #dataviz 📊!
And you can follow along: Every day, I write an update on my progress – papers I read, color tools I find, questions I have, and people I talk to. Find all updates here: datawrapper.notion.site/Colo…
ALT screenshot of the website where I post my color book updates
Our preprint of work led by @JamieWoolet on the effects of short-interval reburns on soil bacteria in the boreal forest with @EllWhitman, Marc-André Parisien, Dan K. Thompson, and @mikeflannigan is posted at bioRxiv
Short-interval reburns in the boreal forest alter soil bacterial communities, reflecting increased pH and poor conifer seedling establishment biorxiv.org/cgi/content/shor…#bioRxiv
The Department of Soil Science is very pleased to announce that Dr. Thea Whitman has been tenured, a great milestone for a great scientist. We are proud to have you in our department Thea!
Want to learn Bayesian stats but don't know where to start? Raffling 3 tickets to PyMCon for anyone that likes or RTs (one entry per!) by 9pm PST wed. Conference funds aid development for @pymc_devs and @NumFOCUS . Plz consider donating directly as well! pymcon.com
One year later and 110 million jobs run, a new Nextflow Tower release is out! Now including workflow sharing and support for HPC schedulers! 🎉🎉🚀🚀
seqera.io/blog/sharing-is-ca…
New paper accepted! Turns out sea star densoviruses are pretty common and probably not associated with sea star wasting disease. (I apologize for the formatting and likely grammatical mistakes. Needs proofs)
@fieldomics @rabbleroyal @IanH77@SeaDocSocietyjvi.asm.org/content/early/20…
If you request absentee ballot in NC, you can track status online with northcarolina.ballottrax.net…. Super easy. My vote already counted 🇺🇸
The deadline to request a ballot by mail in NC is (received by) Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Hi all -- I'm presenting on "Model misspecification in microbiome data analysis" in the NW Data Science Seminar Series this Wednesday -- registration is free and quick -- looking forward to answering questions live then!
biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/… New preprint out today on sea star densoviruses with @IanH77@hllutz @rabbleroyal and others. Huge thx to the many people that collected samples used in this study.
Our report on long-term COVID recoveries is live: bit.ly/bp-covid-survey-analy…
I'm damn proud of this work. We made this with covid brains, dealing with fevers & fatigue, between trips to urgent care & doctors. We learned things we haven't seen in the news yet. Please share!
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We made a game to show how an infectious disease might spread in your community, using data from your zip code & your decisions whether to #stayhome each week. And what might happen if you go back to normal after 8 weeks.
Try w/ your zip code → peopleofthepandemicgame.com/
Despite the importance of sweet potato, little is known about the sweet potato microbiome. @agbiome researchers sought to better understand the sweet potato microbiomes by characterizing it within and between actual working farms. @chuck_prapsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/1…