i love you all. today was a weird experience in many ways. but one unexpected one is that it has been sorta like reading your own eulogy while you’re still alive. the outpouring of love is awesome. one takeaway: go tell your friends how great you think they are.

huge congrats to Noor Siddiqui and Orchid team for this big step forward in IVF decision-making

Excited to see this out! Atomic was built from the ground up to fuse both cutting-edge experimental work and AI, and the ATOM-1 foundation model is a beautiful example of this in action. Onwards and upwards to unlocking a whole new world of RNA-focused therapies! #ATOM1 #RNA

I'm hiring a [Senior] Scientist – Immunology at Y-Trap to be an early member of our team in SSF. Looking for strong experience in immune cell culture and characterization (esp flow cytometry), who’s also excited to contribute across the board in the lab. lnkd.in/gV7sGixN

It's here: my annual presentation on decarbonization. There is a lot going on, and I attempt to capture it in 200 slides. Ocean heat content, deforestation, fund performance, vehicle efficiency, lighting technology, GLP-1 agonists, and much more. nathanielbullard.com/presentations

Now that you’ve learned about “DROID: A Large-Scale In-the-Wild Robot Manipulation Dataset”, see the incredible story behind it. youtu.be/xqCJkTjAXDE

Update: Seems the Dept. of Agriculture USDA Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service chose not to share sequence data with the global GISAID Initiative system where a vast majority of all global scientists have shared their data on influenza viruses since 2008. In addition, they chose not to include critical metadata on timing and

SO INCREDIBLY PROUD to share 2 HUGE updates: 1) The first baby was born using Orchid technology — and he’s super cute 🥰 2) I tested my own embryos with Orchid — we got SO much information & l feel confident now 🚀 This is the future of how babies will be born!

Meet MagLOV: an engineered protein that responds STRONGLY to magnetic fields. This is a fluorescence timelapse of MagLOV in E. coli. We're waving a (small) magnet under the plate. Can you tell where the magnet is? Want some? It's on Addgene now! addgene.org/219957/

Awesome results from Namrata Anand and team at Diffuse Bio showing de novo single-digit nM VHHs

We have trained ESM3 and we're excited to introduce EvolutionaryScale. ESM3 is a generative language model for programming biology. In experiments, we found ESM3 can simulate 500M years of evolution to generate new fluorescent proteins. Read more: evolutionaryscale.ai/blog/esm3-rele…

Trying to convince the United gate agent to let me reboot Windows in safe mode and delete “C-00000291*.sys”, to no avail

my Notion back-links disappeared today, on pages that have always shown them before. "customize page" -> "show backlinks" is still toggled on. anyone else seeing this?

Introducing Shadow: a cross-embodiment policy transfer method for robotics. Shadow enables training a policy on one robot and successfully deploying it on a different, unseen robot, with no extra data required! 🦾🤖 To be presented at #Corl2024 (1/6)

When it comes to building high speed rail, California is more politically dysfunctional than ***North Africa***

We did it! We tested 300 Bay Area foods for plastic chemicals. We found some interesting surprises. Top 5 findings in our test results: 1. Our tests found plastic chemicals in 86% of all foods, with phthalates in 73% of the tested products and bisphenols in 22%. It's

Margins is awesome - Paul Warren has changed the game for finding your next book to read

Introducing Phantom 👻: a method to train robot policies without collecting any robot data — using only human video demonstrations. Phantom turns human videos into "robot" demonstrations, making it significantly easier to scale up and diversify robotics data. 🧵1/9

Could this vaccine approach help overcome our current real-life game of variant ‘whack-a-mole’?💡 CEPI is providing up to $5m to @Centivax to advance their tech aiming to create a single-shot vaccine to protect against multiple viruses and their variants: cepi.net/pioneering-vac…

this captures exactly my experience with ChatGPT model selection right now