rorytbyrne

Joined 8 years ago

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meet.hn/city/gb-Cambridge

Socials: - github.com/rorybyrne - linkedin.com/in/rorytbyrne - twitter.com/ryrobyrne - [email protected]

Interests: AI/ML, Biotech, Books, DevOps, Entrepreneurship, Open Source, Philosophy, Programming, Research, Science, UI/UX Design, Web Development, Science Policy, Neuroscience

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Comment · 2 months ago
Does it depend on body shape/height/etc? Could “bad posture” for me “equal good” posture for someone with a longer back or narrower shoulders or something?
Comment · 3 months ago
Comment · 4 months ago
I thought the HN community might have some ideas for this.

Unconventional org charts, beyond PI + postdocs + PhD students? New tech to enable fully-remote research collaboration? New approaches to funding? Under-appreciated ideas from neolabs/modern R&D?

Comment · 5 months ago
This is more on the ed-tech side right? I'm thinking more tooling to help a synthetic biologist design a protein, or a DARPA PM integrate the research activities of the labs they fund.
Comment · 7 months ago
Open Science Archive: open infrastructure for scientific databases, so that every field gets its own Protein Data Bank in 1-click.

Code: https://github.com/opensciencearchive/server.

Website: https://opensciencearchive.org/

Two demos:

https://pockets.bio

https://lingual.bio

I've got demos up and running (mirroring/extending PDB and GEO). Next I'm working on APIs with good AX, ML-friendly export, and an unified AI-driven UI that works for all scientific data types.

Comment · 7 months ago
Of course it's relevant to how it's seen today. French culture nurtured the author, a French publisher published it, and France didn't ban it while other countries did. This is all evidence that the book was well-liked in France when it was published, and there's no reason to think that would change over time.

If anything, it's surprising that English-speaking countries like it so much.

Comment · 7 months ago
Ulysses was first published in Paris during the 20 years that Joyce lived there.

>I thought only the US ranks it high

Joyce never even set foot in the United States... You could say this about The Great Gatsby, which US sources might rank in the top 5 compared to 46 in this list.

Comment · 9 months ago
Why is "singing along" a relevant metric?

In Dublin's best music venues, nobody is singing along because it's brand new material from brand new artists. If you're singing along to well known songs in Temple Bar then I'm afraid you're missing some of the best music the city has to offer, in venues like Whelan's, Workmans, Sin É, The Grand Social etc.

Comment · 9 months ago
Not sure what point you’re trying to make here in relation to startups.
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Comment · 10 months ago
Not which parts of this are sarcastic or not, but it was probably running for a few weeks. High variance on that estimate though. I was running 5+ Claude Code instances and a similar number of vim instances.
Comment · 10 months ago
I spotted Ghostty using 20GB+ memory a few days ago on MacOS (according to Activity Monitor). I went through all my tmux sessions, killed everything, it was still 20GB+ so I re-started Ghostty. If I see it happen again, I'll take some notes.

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