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>On my visits to the Bay Area, I would ask AI researchers or interns why they are doing their current research or projects, when in a year or three agentic LLMs could probably do t…

It is ideology. It's very obvious the current US government thinks that universities are a waste of money, and that industry is where everything happens. This industry PhD shuffles…

Depends in which country you are! IT advice is handled by your regular IT service companies. AI assistance is going gangbusters, as evidenced by Anthropic hiring biologists left an…

Yes, getting the drug into the right cell or tissue is still largely unsolved (kidney is easier than brain, of course). But the investors we talk with have dropped all interest in …

I actually do this for a living within pharma now! There's a TON of work that goes into drug discovery before we even call it a program. The odds of success are low, so we put in m…

Doesn't that happen with any first-year psychology or med-student, too? You have some basic knowledge of what could happen, which therefore means that it does happen, right now, he…

I used to co-supervise a PhD student who suffered from severe anxiety, she was good but her anxiety stood in her way almost all of the time. You could see that she used up 3/4 of h…

I mentioned Densha de GO above, they have a designated controller like that for the Nintendo Switch too :)

It wouldn't surprise me if Japan has its own market for train assets. There's a big community of train simulators! Go to the Kyoto or Tokyo train museums, they have dozens where yo…

Yes, this has been my experience in the Australian academic system as well: everything is broken and nobody with the power to change it, cares. China seems to make some strides for…

They are pretty much the same, yes! Those eDNA providers usually use a wider range of primers (12S, 16S, COI etc.) to capture a range of invertebrates, vertebrates, plants etc. For…

https://www.envirodna.com/ https://www.naturemetrics.com/species-detection https://www.ednacollab.org/industry/ https://wilderlab.co/ These companies focus on environmental DNA - s…

Why would I pay 10 dollars per month for music I can AI-generate myself for free?

Good move, it's crazy how many scam calls and SMS I receive in Australia. In fact, if I get an SMS or a call, I just assume it's a scam.

Many billionaires are starting up ocean expedition places, surely they'll want IT. Off the top of my head I can think of OceanX (Ray Dalio), Inkfish (Gabe Newell), RevOcean (Kjell …

Ah, personas! https://bufferbuffer.com/using-personas-in-technical-writing... >In user experience (UX) design, personas are fictional characters representing the different types of…

KPGM et al. are used as political ammo to push through internal changes. Those in power rely on consultancies underlying their decisions (painful redundancies, firings, etc.). Ackn…

Oh no, that's just coincidence. In proteomics world, a peptide is just a short protein (<50 amino-acids?).

I'd go even further: what happens in biology is antithetical to the way software people think. The HN/YC crowd generally has software brain: https://www.theverge.com/podcast/917029…

The accompanying preprint is interesting: https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.64898/2026.06.03.729735v1 Modeling protein-protein binding is still a massively unsolved problem, mainl…

At my previous work, I was collating somewhat random unconfirmed animal sightings. I also had a separate database of animal occurrence probabilities (species distribution maps). I'…

Ah yes, there is a gap between what our regulator wants and what the reality is. I have no qualms that they'll hover out the data if they want to, we know that since Snowden. But I…

You can use Claude and Copilot via AWS Bedrock, and there are VSCode plugins for that https://dev.to/aws-builders/setting-up-aws-bedrock-with-clau...

3. from my opportunity - For many (not all) LLMs, Bedrock gives you control over which country the data stays in. You have no control over that with the Claude API, for example. We…

There has been a bit of a 'trend' to rewrite common bioinformatics/comp-bio into faster languages (Rust) via LLMs, OP's repo seems to be an early example. Seqera Labs has a bit of …