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technical staff @noetik_ai || ex ml eng @dyno_tx || i write/podcast about bio ml at http://owlposting.com || art on https://owlpostingshop.com/
A vibe check on the San Francisco biotech scene owlposting.com/p/a-vibe-check… some thoughts on what the bay felt like during my recent visit. what were the vibes? and why those vibes? paid post bc i dont really want many people to read it 2.5k words, 11 minute reading time
andrew white has done it again, extremely valuable work
HLE has recently become the benchmark to beat for frontier agents. We @FutureHouseSF took a closer look at the chem and bio questions and found about 30% of them are likely invalid based on our analysis and third-party PhD evaluations. 1/7
i joke about this but owls seem to be unironically fundamental to reality. the nucleus of something far older than any of us, a bedrock of something beyond. they — not the animal but rather the concept of an owl — appear literally everywhere if you take the time to notice
New paper & surprising result. LLMs transmit traits to other models via hidden signals in data. Datasets consisting only of 3-digit numbers can transmit a love for owls, or evil tendencies. 🧵
What happened to pathology AI companies? owlposting.com/p/what-happene… 4k words, 19 minutes reading time some longer thoughts: i used to hear a lot about digital pathology companies like pathai and paige. i remember listening to podcasts about them and seeing their crazy raises…
i *need* to stop writing shortform nonfiction on this platform and finish this stupid RNA structure modeling essay
i acquired a back injury this morning while bouldering and suddenly all this virtual cell and ai co-scientist stuff seems kinda out of touch with what real humans go through every day in the medical system
my emotional biotech portfolio: rowansci.com noetik.ai axi.om popvax.com convoke.bio formation.bio markov.bio futurehouse.org newlimit.com leash.bio
i did not like my college. but, like everyone who goes to college, i maintained a secret hope that, at some point during my time there, that there would be an intense moment of clarification — one so extraordinary that it could really only be stumbled across only once per…
i wish i had the auditory palette necessary to distinguish between different types of club music. house? techno? it all feels Loud and Fast. i cant tell the difference. i used to work in a lab in undergrad where we trained rats to distinguish individual sounds. as an ice breaker,…
i just had an incredible, once in a generation startup idea. i *know* it’ll work and sell incredibly well. but it is unfortunately unrelated to bio so into the trash it goes. such is life
i kind of assumed we lived in a post-prompt-engineering world but ive since eaten my words
i read my first venkatesh rao essay in college, specifically the Gervais Principle series. it remains one of the few essay collections that i dont think i couldve independently come up with even if i was locked in a room for a hundred years
@RowanSci is making molecular modeling actually usable, so I built an MCP server that lets you access their tools through natural conversation.
i turned 28 this weekend as many following this account are familiar with, the chase always starts shortly after the clock hits twelve, and does not stop until sunday evening. each year, they get faster and i stay the same speed. it’s not a fair game, but my pursuers did not…
ozempic is basically the first Apple-esque product that has come out of the pharma industry. yes, you could buy something today that makes you better in every meaningful capacity, but, haven't you heard? there's something new coming out next year that's even better