Alex Wolf
@falexwolf
Open data infra for biology @laminlabs. Previously, created Scanpy & led build-up of Cellarity's compute platform.
Today, we're shipping a series of features that move uv beyond a pip alternative, and into an end-to-end solution for managing Python projects, command-line tools, single-file scripts, and even Python itself. A single, unified tool. Like Cargo, for Python. It's very fast.
As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/
Mario Draghi's new report on EU competitiveness doesn't mince words. "Across different metrics, a wide gap in GDP has opened up between the EU and the US, driven mainly by a more pronounced slowdown in productivity growth in Europe. Europe’s households have paid the price in…
Dear Mario Draghi, a year ago, I asked you to prepare a report on the future of Europe’s competitiveness. No one was better placed than you to take up this challenge. Now, we are eager to listen to your views ↓
Thrilled to reveal @falexwolf, who originally created Scanpy, as an invited speaker at the inaugural #scverse2024 conference! Get ready to dive into his expertise on single-cell innovations. 👉 Secure your spot now at scverse.org/conference2024…!
Exciting news for the Python Single-Cell Community! Save the date for the first scverse conference in Munich from September 10-12. Inspiring talks, interactive workshops, and networking opportunities. Stay tuned for the registrations, speaker announcements, and more! #scverse2024
Join us for a special AI in Biotech event on April 11, 12-1:30pm EST. We're discussing Data Management and Regulatory with seasoned panelists: Alex Wolf, Nicholas Larus-Stone, Ankita Dhar, and Bogdan Knezevic. ✨Sign up here: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regist…
Nice, detailed benchmark of backends that allow for batched training on a large scRNA-seq corpus - efficiently dealing with the specifics of a scenario can be a big engineering challenge, lowering this barrier will enable cool computational biology down the road!
What's a good way of organizing scRNA-seq data for training foundation models? Say you run 1k experiments and each measures counts for 1M cells with varying metadata and orthogonal data. Storing these data in one gigantic array isn’t exactly easy. We wondered whether it’s…
Organizing scRNA-seq data with LaminDB - nxn.se/valent/2024/1/…
I'm super excited to announce our new framework for exploratory electronic health record analysis "ehrapy". Although analysis is standardized for single-cell by seurat, bioconductor and scanpy, EHR analysis was until now the wild west. medrxiv.org/content/10.110…
🥳Join us at our @BitsInBio Munich meetup! 1️⃣@falexwolf will discuss building data infrastructure for biology to enable data scientists and engineers 2️⃣@JoBMller will explain why bears don't get blood clots during hibernation, unlike immobilized people 👉eventbrite.de/e/bits-in-bio-…
In July we are going to collaborate with another awesome #tech community and this time in a field of Biology. Join us on-site on July 26th in our office starting at 18:30🙌🤩Thanks @furkanmtorun @falexwolf @JoBMller !
New paper: On the unreasonable effectiveness of LLMs for causal inference. GPT4 achieves new SoTA on a wide range of causal tasks: graph discovery (97%, 13 pts gain), counterfactual reasoning (92%, 20 pts gain) & actual causality. How is this possible?🧵 arxiv.org/abs/2305.00050
Our paper presenting @scverse_team - our multi-institution open-source software project to address storage and analysis needs of single-cell data - is now online in @NatureBiotech! nature.com/articles/s4158… & rdcu.be/c9yNV.
CO2 removal has started to scale! Climeworks lets individuals offset emissions, too. Others will follow. Materials: falexwolf.me/2023/co2-remov…
Charm Industrial now lets you buy CO2 removal direct through an online form. You can take a flight, and after landing, pay to have the CO2 taken back out of the atmosphere. charmindustrial.com/buy