Conversation pit at Eero Saarinen’s Miller House (1957) in Columbus, IN

when i was 19, i went to office hours with a prof in comparative historical poetics - the kind of guy obsessed w/ Pindar and dactyls - for advice. he told me to pick up as many languages as i could, because that was the gift of being at a place like chicago. it makes me so sad

🚨 Google’s MedGemma & OpenAI’s GPT-4o are impressive, but their openness is limited—either fully closed-source or releasing only weights without data/training code. 🔥 Meet MedVLThinker — a fully open multimodal medical reasoning recipe that matches their performance. Simple.

My for you page keeps showing me this guy tweeting this, but I don’t really understand what’s going on. You can literally buy a real time pulse ox over the counter from CVS? I don’t think this is like, some fda ban on pulse oximetry??

average american bio-ml paper: we have created a very useful tool average european bio-ml paper: we have conclusive proof that the tool is useless average chinese bio-ml paper: we have used the tool to create a first-in-class therapeutic, here is n=58 proof of its efficacy

Excellent substack post on why the amyloid hypothesis for Alzheimer’s still is likely correct: open.substack.com/pub/astralcode…

I actually like the title "Chinese Frankenstein"

Great write up and pretty solid rationale for the design of Arc's gene expression perturbation prediction challenge. The challenge outreach has been top notch as well. Good model for other challenges to follow.

avi please keep posting to juice these numbers and let me buy dollars for 15¢

pretty much the optimal outcome

Great set of slides and papers!

spotted vanity plates for what I can only assume must be a T cell biologist