Shae Mclaughlin
@shae_mcl
Incoming BioE PhD @ Stanford 🧬 Interested in AI for life sciences, epigenetic engineering, transcriptomics
I trained a sparse autoencoder on the middle layer residual stream of my genome language model and found human-interpretable latent features that consistently detect specific DNA motifs! 🧵1/8
i will keep tapping this sign until it clicks for every single person on earth. i will tap the sign until the day i die
I thought the Polish sun would be far kinder to my genetically European skin but alas, I have the worst sunburn I’ve ever had.
This feels extremely obvious yet I’ve never considered it before. Fascinating.
Icing your boys in the sauna is a good idea. Experiment #1: + sauna icing the boys improved fertility markers Experiment #2: + no ice devastated fertility markers Experiment #3: + icing again is healing the harm My results explained and what to do🧵
Anecdotally, women (or it least myself and the women I know) have a much stronger “thirst” for adventure than the men, who have a greater desire to work 24/7 and stay in one location. I’m a very ambitious, work-oriented person, but I have to work hard to suppress my opposing…
There seems to be a mismatch between mens' perception of womens' desire for comfort and womens' actual comfort requirements. Whenever I post about nomadic living and such, it's always women who seem fascinated and enthralled by it. But the men say: "no woman would do this." If…
I wouldn't be an EA anyhow, but one of the ways I dislike EA spaces is the uncritical acceptance of the qualia memeplex. Not just acceptance, even extension into the bizarre idea you can quantify qualia such that shrimp "suffering" (whatever that means) is X% as important.
There's a tension in EA thought between a self-image of empiricism and logical rigour and arbitrary figures on animal pain that arguably don't even mean anything. What does it mean to say cats are 10% as intelligent as humans? It's not just guessing, it's probably meaningless.
Bf is still telling me to “learn to code” everyday smh
People were saying "learn to code" in 2016, you know when Zoomers were picking colleges and their programs
What are the odds of your paper review coming in two weeks into your six week holiday, requesting major revisions with a four week deadline?
Which is more plausible: a) that starvation, exploitation and tyranny cause masses to behave in ways that are cruel and irrational, or b) that individuals become part of cruel, retarded, poor masses because they innately possess those qualities?
Reading a lot of history lately, it's made me: 1. More wary about power, which is very good in principle at removing checks to itself 2. Less sympathetic to the poor masses, which are largely cruel and completely retarded
men are delaying fatherhood to boyboss imo, (biased because I'm a man, I guess) men intentionally postponing family formation is a much larger effect than women postponing family formation. it's anecdotal, but the women I know want kids; the men I know "want them in 10 years"
Lmfao cartoonshateher.com/p/men-are-dela…
The solution to the sf gender imbalance is to put at least two brick and mortar Anthropologie stores and one Free People. I will not comment further.