During my undergrad, I frequently used to use his Your Sky app. Was super helpful getting my bearings of the night sky just before my observations. Or to help me see what planets were visible, etc. Happy to see it’s still around.
My birds are much happier when music is playing. And they seem to have preferences over time. Like there are no predators around when the environment around them is noisy.
Though I found they like having control over whether the music is playing more... to my chagrin. I tried to keep my parrot from being too noisy through the day by setting up a microphone in his room, and having it turn off the radio for 30 seconds every time he was louder than a threshold amount.
Day one -> he triggered the shut down ~10 times.
Day two -> easily 50.
Day three -> you can see where this is going
Dude freaking LOVED being able to turn on and off the radio. It almost beat out being able to flap his wings and make the curtains move as one of his favourite hobbies.
you thought you were punishing him by taking away the music if he makes to much noise and you give him a tool that gives him control over his environment. seems that backfired because it looks like the parrot is less interested in the music itself but in this new ability to control the radio.
Do you want to become an informatician or do you want to write software in informatics?
I’ve worked in Biomedical Informatics for the past 12 years, but as a software engineer. My original experience was not even close to this field.
You can certainly pursue a degree—yes, likely PhD. Or you can use your SWE background to enter the field. There is a learning curve to understand the domain, but that’s what we do as software types.
Is there a big difference? I suppose to start I want to write software in informatics and maybe pick up more of the biology on the job if I can.
How did you find your job? What kinds of companies hire roles like that? I looked at a few pharma companies (in Canada) and have seen very few roles that seem like they would hire software engineers.
The difference, imo, is basically in how you define your primary goal. Is it software development or is it specifically informatics?
In my experience (in academia) most informaticians are focused on the data whereas my focus is software development in support of the informaticians’ goals.
Take a look at some Universities that have Biomedical Informatics departments; I started with a University that has such a department. They’ll typically have faculty that have grant-funded projects that require a software component, whether it’s NLP, AI, ML or application development for various purposes (including clinical-use software).
Also look for organizations or companies working with HL7 standards (most recent tech is FHIR (http://hl7.org/fhir/)).
Very helpful, thank you for responding!! I do see one or two bioinformatics adjacent software positions at a nearby uni so I'll try applying there!
I did previously interview at a FHIR related place a few years ago, but it seemed to be quite far off from the medical or biological side of things, more about billing and administration.
I have a Peruvian friend who had a similar experience. He would relate that when you would ask someone in his country how they’re doing, it was expected that that would be the beginning of a (possibly brief, but probably not so brief) discussion.
I run my pi-hole instances on Arch Linux thanks to the folks who maintain the packages in AUR. One of my instances is indeed a Raspberry Pi (2B+) but the other is an older Intel NUC (with a number of other services running). RPi is probably one of the cheapest options, though.
Might want to try SideNotes or FiveNotes (same developer). My current key mapping is control-option-command-space. I don't think either provides sync capabilities, but for quick notes, they're decent.
> 5. Push comes to shove with surveillance capitalism. Do we want our cars recording everything and beaming it back to home base or not? I'm not saying it will get outlawed, but it will get decided.
It's likely insurance companies will push laws making it a requirement in order to provide insurance services. (At the moment, they just ask you to install their devices in exchange for a "lower premium.")
