Dr. Mc. Ninja

 My assistant said… This is a classic SAIGE “you asked for LOCO but didn’t bake LOCO into the cake” situation 🍰🧬 You ran Step 1 (null model / GRM) without LOCO, but Step 2 is trying to use LOCO. St...

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• 26 February 2026 15:46
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No problem, happy to share the full sheet if it's useful (I guess I may as well): rap_instance_type,aws_instance_type,version,storage_class,storage_rank,gpus,memory_class,vcpus,memory_gib,storage_g...

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• 05 January 2026 13:39
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Thanks so much. Here is a visualisation that's useful for me: 

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• 05 January 2026 12:14
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Job priority trade-off?

Hi,If I use normal priority, I initially get a spot instance, which is cheaper, but can be ‘killed’ without warning (clear enough).I *think* that if a job waits 15 mins for a spot instance, it then...

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• 19 December 2025 09:30
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What’s tripping you up is this:Table Exporter doesn’t “export files from your project”. It exports columns from the dispensed UKB Dataset / Cohort / Dashboard into a new CSV/TSV. The only role your...

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• 19 December 2025 09:18
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Short answer: yes, that’s correct 👍On the UK Biobank RAP (DNAnexus), you are only charged once a job actually starts running on an instance. Jobs that exceed the concurrent running limit (for examp...

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• 17 December 2025 20:54
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My assistant says … (NOTE, she has the habit of optimistically making stuff up, so please let me know if this works or not) …You’re not doing anything “wrong” – this is mostly about how Hail + Spar...

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• 04 December 2025 12:36
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Short version (please let me know if it works): Short Answer / FixThis error happens because the compute environment you're using does not have the VEP Docker image installed, so Hail tries to run:...

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• 17 November 2025 09:34
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My assistant came up with the below. Sorry cus the formatting is a bit off, and I haven't tested it. What’s actually going wrong?This bit tells the whole story:Unable to find image dnanexus/dxjupyt...

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• 17 November 2025 09:32
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