A Hollywood actress, a draper, a musician, and a clerk. What do they all have in common? They were all outsiders that shaped science. Hedy Lamarr is best known today for being a Hollywood actress, but she was also a brilliant inventor whose work guided technologies we now take

vibes based analysis: long anthropic, short meta

in bioinformatics a vector could be a direction in N-dimensional space, a type of data structure in R, or a literal virus lol

In 2016 Geoffrey Hinton said “we should stop training radiologists now" since AI would soon be better at their jobs. He was right: models have outperformed radiologists on benchmarks for ~a decade. Yet radiology jobs are at record highs, with an average salary of $520k. Why?

this is true from an economic standpoint, but also.... you don't need to pay hundreds of dollars to hear good music! check out your local music scene! best concerts i've ever been to were my friend's band playing in a basement at Temple University

After 10 months of work PLANET, our 1st sci-fi film, is officially live on our website!

NYC people -- I'm teaching a weekend class on computational biology / bioinformatics October 18-19 if anyone's interested! it's beginner friendly, prereq is just basic python and no biology background is required. signup form and more info below 👇

First Man has the greatest opening scene of any movie ever youtube.com/watch?v=SKTTgn…

It's time for a vitalik.eth and Robin Hanson Nobel Prize.

Royce Gracie vs some guy twice his size at UFC 1

Introducing: Black Ops Chess! Starting position is randomized, and piece identity is hidden to your opponent. Is that piece that's advanced by 1 cell for the past two moves a pawn, or is in a queen in disguise? blackopschess.com

i guess i'm an outlier but doing a PhD was the most fun i've ever had. basically got paid to do my hobby as a job for 5 years! actually i think it only makes sense to do it for enjoyment, since it isn't really a good financial move

bullish on our species lately

This year Demis Hassabis predicted AI could cure all disease in a decade. But Claus Wilke & Derek Lowe say biology is far more complex, or progress will be limited by clinical trials & economics. In a new 4hr episode of the Hard Drugs podcast, we answer: Will AI solve medicine