A silly little comic based on the opening section of AI Snake Oil by @randomwalker.bsky.social and @sayash.bsky.social.

Let me know when the T-shirt is available, I will order five pieces right away.

Everyone should watch this

We found AI to be a bit short-sighted towards evolution, so we went out to grind some computational lenses. The resulting pair of evolutionary glasses is finally available in the latest issue of CSBJ news.rub.de/english/pres...

New post about Lysenko and Bhattacharya from @angierasmussen.bsky.social open.substack.com/pub/rasmusse...

"Science in the US is entering a phase resembling the Lysenko era in the Soviet Union." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Almost like it was written for the world these days... the "Final Speech" by Charly Chaplin's hairdresser and dictator-by-coincidence Hynkel. youtu.be/J7GY1Xg6X20?...

Large Language Model is Secretly a Protein Sequence Optimizer [new] LLMs, surprisingly, can optimize protein sequences via directed evolution, even without explicit protein training data, finding high fitness variants.

I donated. It would be great to have a social-media protocol that wasn't subject to capture, and it does seem possible. freeourfeeds.com

"Researchers trained medical AI models on over 25,000 knee X-rays. They then essentially worked backwards, tasking the deep learning programs to find commonalities that predicted nonsensical traits, such as which knee-owners clearly drank beer or ate refried beans—which is patently absurd."

Meanwhile, in the less free corners of the internet…