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Stanford scientists discover new Ozempic alternative with RegEx (twitter.com/lauriewired)
30 points by haxiomic on March 8, 2025 | hide | past | favorite | 8 comments



Regex in Python on FASTA files.

This takes me back to when I was a student!

I'm feeling nostalgic now.


My favorite is lines 32 and 64.


Would be good on a T-Shirt


I have used regex for chart analysis for stock trading. I mapped chart states to characters, then matched character patterns using a regex. It was a very sensible thing to do that gave me tremendous flexibility with very little code.


You didn't believe it then, but you better believe it now: RegEx is the final boss of both code and science.


"Everybody stand back! I know regular expressions!" https://www.explainxkcd.com/wiki/index.php/208:_Regular_Expr...


Everyone knows that to understand metabolism you should use a parser.




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