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Peter McHale

@peter_t_mchale

Computational Biologist/Data Scientist. Developing genomics software. Statistics and ML. Former lecturer in mathematics. Physics PhD (Cantab). 🇮🇪

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This is obviously true if you think for just a minute about animal intelligence and evolution. Language enables cultural ratchet of human society, but builds on embodied cognition. Skipping these true foundations of perception and action will lead to AI systems that are fragile.

Language is primarily a tool for communication rather than thought nature.com/articles/s4158… “Language is a defining characteristic of our species, but the function, or functions, that it serves has been debated for centuries. Here we bring recent evidence from neuroscience and…



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Happy to share a new preprint wherein Jussi Taipale and I argue that the functional genomics/machine learning research community should work towards the long-term goal of training our cis-regulatory computer models solely on non-genomic sequences. 1/n doi.org/10.1101/2023.0…


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Our paper on finding efficient latent spaces in scRNA-seq using #NeuralNetworks has just come out. Adapting error function to negative binomial helped a lot. Thanks @gokcen and @lkmklsmn! nature.com/articles/s4146…


Training a simple AI using the policy-gradient approach to Reinforcement Learning lnkd.in/gxqbPki lnkd.in/gbgX8Gh


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