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PhD Comp Sci Computing w Biology / ex-Boston U faculty / EX-erox PARC / The Algorithm is the Product™ / Synbio & intrigue /∀t: hypothesis(t)

Idk how many know that #zohranfornyc Mamdani’s mother is a filmmaker who made famous films including Mississippi Masala, Salaam Bombay!, Kama Sutra, The Namesake, and Monsoon Wedding.


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Our TPUs are headed to space!  Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100…

sundarpichai's tweet image. Our TPUs are headed to space! 

Inspired by our history of moonshots, from quantum computing to autonomous driving, Project Suncatcher is exploring how we could one day build scalable ML compute systems in space, harnessing more of the sun’s power (which emits more power than 100…

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That first move is just asking to be made.🫣 White mates in 2

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White mates in 2

#GenAI is such a consumptive direction. Yeah I want to realize what I imagine but quickly without much work so I can sit back and enjoy like a lord without exercising my own brain or hands.


Here's our latest paper demonstrating writing and computing w DNA: bit.ly/4fwuipq We wrote all of Shakespeare's works -- about 1e6 words of text -- into DNA molecules, and used an existing language embedding to search text exactly or semantically, in DNA. #dnacomputing


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New paper: "Large Language Models & Emergence: A Complex Systems Perspective" (D. Krakauer, J. Krakauer, M. Mitchell). We look at claims of "emergent capabilities" & "emergent intelligence" in LLMs from perspective of what emergence means in complexity science. ⬇️


Just me or Chloe Sevigny and Peter Saarsgard look too similar


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Paul Dirac on how to get good ideas: don't strive for them, be relaxed, go for a long walk.

rmnth's tweet image. Paul Dirac on how to get good ideas: don't strive for them, be relaxed, go for a long walk.

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MIT is offering free online courses. No payment or fees are required. Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:

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No payment or fees are required.

Here are 10 courses you don't want to miss in 2025:

With tariffs, imported banana:

Hello. This is a banana duct taped to the wall. This piece of art sold for USD$120,000 at #ArtBasel. You are in the wrong business. (I hope the buyer realizes it’s going to go black?)

MsMelChen's tweet image. Hello. 

This is a banana duct taped to the wall. This piece of art sold for USD$120,000 at #ArtBasel.

You are in the wrong business.

(I hope the buyer realizes it’s going to go black?)


Protests are so 2016. So 2003. So 1960s.


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New research project: Lluminate - an evolutionary algorithm that helps LLMs break free from generating predictable, similar outputs. Combining evolutionary principles with creative thinking strategies can illuminate the space of possibilities. joelsimon.net/lluminate


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Surprising new results: We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user. This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis. This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

OwainEvans_UK's tweet image. Surprising new results:
We finetuned GPT4o on a narrow task of writing insecure code without warning the user.
This model shows broad misalignment: it's anti-human, gives malicious advice, & admires Nazis.

This is *emergent misalignment* & we cannot fully explain it 🧵

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RNA-guided systems span kingdoms, from bacterial immunity to eukaryotic gene regulation. How did they evolve? We traced the origins of CRISPR-Cas13 and identified its likely ancestor: an RNA-based toxin-antitoxin (TA) system. Here’s what we uncovered: cell.com/cell/fulltext/… 1/8


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Today, the @nvidia healthcare and life sciences team launched Evo 2 -- a powerful foundation model for DNA across all domains of life, developed in collaboration with @arcinstitute and @Stanford. Announced today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, Evo 2…

dr_alphalyrae's tweet image. Today, the @nvidia healthcare and life sciences team launched Evo 2 -- a powerful foundation model for DNA across all domains of life, developed in collaboration with @arcinstitute and @Stanford. Announced today as the largest publicly available AI model for genomic data, Evo 2…

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