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The embedded video presentation is high quality and informative...after the opening remarks from the podium.

https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA

The speaker starts at 5 min 38 sec into the presentation. This should link to the direct start time: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=5m38s

Edit: And continues from background ML/Bio to core talk at 11 min 50 sec here: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=11m50s

Edit: Focus is on design of experiments using bayesian analysis

Edit: Second half is at 32 min 22 sec and is more focused on synthetic biology / information processing in biomolecular systems: https://youtu.be/iHazsSvn3VA?t=32m22s

very cool biomolecular computation info in the last section

Glad you liked his talk! Yeah, you can tell that Aviv and I were not mic'ed as Ryan was, so we had to boost our audio.
FUBAR=Fvcked up beyond all recognition

Remember that next time someone tries using foobar in their example.

The title sounded like the setup for an awesome joke.

The problem is, now I want to hear that joke! :(

I wrote the title and blog post (that's me looking all awkward at the beginning of the video). Originally I wanted to just write "walk into a foo", but the reference was deemed too oblique for biologists, even with the hyperlink. Would love to hear your ideas for the rest of the joke!
First of all: Best. Title. Ever.

Second: I am not a comedian. For a good reason: If I was, I could not afford to sit in a heated apartment or use electricity.

I kind of feel reminded of the one where a biologist, a mathematician, a physicist, and a computer scientist are riding a train, look out the window and see a black sheep. "Oh," says the biologist, "sheep around here are black." - "Well," replies the mathematician, "all we know for sure is that at least one sheep around here is black." - "Strictly speaking," adds the physicist, "all we know is that it looks black from this side, viewed from this angle in this light, and so forth.".

"Oh no", goes the computer scientist. "Not another special case!"

There are many, many variations of this joke around, but it has no bar, of course, let alone a foobar. I am still trying to imagine what kind of place a foobar would be. Either really funny or kind of scary, I guess.

> Second: I am not a comedian. For a good reason: If I was, I could not afford to sit in a heated apartment or use electricity.

For what it's worth, I laughed out loud at that line.

I'll take a stab at it (fools rush in where professionals fear to tread):

The biologist says "another new species to categorize!"

The mathematician says "I don't see how the foobar follows from the rest of the proof."

The computer scientist says "that variable is badly named", and renames it.

The biologist mourns another species lost to extinction.