I continue to be alarmed at the progress of proposed California regulation SB 1047 and the attack it represents on open source and more broadly on AI innovation. As I wrote previously, this proposed law makes a fundamental mistake of regulating AI technology instead of AI

Register by December 14, 2024 for Genomes to Fields (G2F) GxE Prediction Competition! November 15, 2024 – January 15, 2025. Winner --> $4,000 + speaking invitation/ travel/ first author on publication! Can co-author competition paper regardless of rank maizegxeprediction.org

Stefano Teso Hi Stefano Teso! Didn't forget this, just wanted to track down the right references. To start at the beginning, this paper (arxiv.org/abs/1806.10758) found that the feature importance ranking of 'standard' models are no more informative than random feature rankings. This

Posting a call for help: does anyone know of a good way to simultaneously treat both POTS and Ménière’s disease? Please contact me if you’re either a clinician with experience doing this or a patient who has found a good solution. Context in thread

As we embark on Thanksgiving week I want to take a moment to reflect on this year and my family. Unfortunately I lost my sister to lung cancer in August. It was devastating news when she was diagnosed in 2022 and it's still a shock to believe my vibrant, passionate, loving

congratulations, Ian Goodfellow, for the test-of-time award at NeurIPS Conference ! this award reminds me of how GAN started with this one email ian sent to the Mila - Institut québécois d'IA lab mailing list in May 2014. super insightful and amazing execution!

A Thanksgiving story A few years back I used to play tennis in a ladder system which would match me up with various folks in my neighborhood. After Thanksgiving I had a tennis match with this guy: nice guy, two kids, a bit overweight, in his 50ies, I had never met him before. We

Transcriptome wide association studies in plants can address some of the biggest limitations of GWAS, particularly identifying specific candidate genes. New review lead by Vladimir Torres, PhD with input from Delin Li (1/2)

Have you wondered why I've posted all these nice plots and animations? 🤔 Well, the slides for my lectures on (Bayesian) Active Learning, Information Theory, and Uncertainty are online now! They cover quite a bit from basic information theory to some recent papers 🥳

The post below (learnable lambda has to do with skip connections) reminded me of some ResNet and Transformer architecture-related lore that I thought would be fun to write up! Blogpost: lb.eyer.be/s/residuals.ht…

Introducing All-atom Diffusion Transformers — towards Foundation Models for generative chemistry, from my internship with the FAIR Chemistry team FAIR Chemistry AI at Meta There are a couple ML ideas which I think are new and exciting in here 👇

New enzymes can unlock chemistry we never had access to before. Here, we introduce RFdiffusion2 (RFD2), a generative model that makes significant strides in de novo enzyme design. Preprint: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… Code: coming soon Animation credit: x.com/ichaydon (1/n)

Following release of our recent work, we have spent considerable time engaging with lmarena.ai over last week. The organizers had concerns about the correctness of our work on the reliability of chatbot arena rankings.

I want to share my latest (very short) blog post: "Active Learning vs. Data Filtering: Selection vs. Rejection." What is the fundamental difference between active learning and data filtering? Well, obviously, the difference is that: 1/11

Prompt Theory (Made with Veo 3) What if AI-generated characters refused to believe they were AI-generated?

Great blog post. All ML folks working in the bio space should seriously read this. This issue is seriously plaguing the field. Lots of bombastic AI4bio papers getting tons of attention (pun intended) that end up being entirely hollow under the surface. This is BAD for the field.

A staggering percentage of people I talk to are unaware of the progress that's been made in the treatment of cancer, for example -- the introduction of PD-1 immunotherapies and the rise of tyrosine kinase inhibitors have essentially doubled lung cancer survival rates over the

Interested in a tool that aligns millions of proteins in minutes with quality similar to or better than the state-of-the-art utilities? Please take a look at our FAMSA2 paper: biorxiv.org/content/10.110… and GH repo: github.com/refresh-bio/FA…

A new paper describes a rational way to engineer a *SINGLE PROTEIN* in plants to protect them against a wide range of pathogens. The article features some synthetic biology experiments, a bit of computational modeling, and it's about plants. That makes it a winner in my book!

Introducing DeepPolisher — in collaboration with UC Santa Cruz Genomics Institute, we developed this new open-source method to improve genome assembly accuracy. It reduces indel errors by 70% and total assembly errors by 50%. Learn more: goo.gle/3Hn8PCG