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marcosfelt | 2 years ago | on: Pharmacokinetics: Drug development's broken stair

There's a company called VeriSIM life trying to make the physiological models mentioned in the post more accessible [1]. They apparently fit their models across a bunch of publicly available and proprietary data. I found some peer-reviewed publications (e.g. [2]), but I am not sure how widely they are used.

[1] https://www.verisimlife.com/our-platform [2] https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.2147/DDDT.S253064?ro...

marcosfelt | 3 years ago | on: Show HN: Sketch – AI code-writing assistant that understands data content

Just played around with this and I think I'll be using it on some research projects!

One cool feature would be some sort of chaining, where you could anchor a new query to a previous one.

For example, on the sales data demo, I started with the howto query "Plot the sales per month in a bar chart using plotly."

However, I got a bug since "Order Date" wasn't a datetime, so I added "Make sure to make 'Order Date' a date column." The new code worked, but gave months as integers 1-12.

When I added "Include month name on x-axis (e.g., Jan, Feb, ...).", the model sort of gave up and spit out some buggy code that didn't make a bar plot.

In this example, it would be great to be able to chain the howto commands, so the previous result is used as context for the new one.

marcosfelt | 3 years ago | on: Graduate students question career options

I left the US to do a UK PhD for this reason. No teaching responsibilities and you can just do the PhD. And they really try to kick you out after four years (at least in Cambridge).

marcosfelt | 3 years ago | on: Graduate students question career options

What field were you in? I feel like PhDs in fields with a strong job market for R&D (e.g., machine learning, biomedical or chemical engineering) can be worth it. I think, otherwise, it can be really difficult.

marcosfelt | 3 years ago | on: Graduate students question career options

I agree with the whisper net comment. You learn about who's good and bad pretty quickly once you get into a department, but everyone is hush-hush otherwise. We need a glassdoor for academia.
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