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New short story: “The Commute”
There were three doors in Dave’s small living room: one opened into his bedroom, the other into the corridor outside…
Quick link: de novo antibody design with generative AI
The paper: Unlocking de novo antibody design with generative artificial intelligence. What they did: Used sequence generation models to generate…
Quick link: Configurable apps for grown-ups
The link: Bikerouter.de (via Scope of Work). What it is: A map/route planning tool for biking. Think “Waze specifically for…
New short story: “Upon the Place Beneath”
And it turned out that we built software patient enough to hallucinate medicines that worked and patient enough to teach…
Quick link: How efficient is public infrastructure investment?
The paper: Benchmarking Infrastructure Using Public Investment Efficiency Frontiers (IMF Working papers). What they do: The authors check empirically the…
AI and your career
It doesn’t look good. The key impact of easily available AI — call it AI as a Service — is…
New short story: “How to hunt monsters”
You have to be subtle when letting people know about the zombie-infested valley. You don’t want mass panic, armies, chaos….
How to improve your information diet in a generative AI world
Now that low- or negative-quality content has moved from “too much” to “nearly ubiquitous” it’s time to reconsider from scratch…
New short story: “Iterative Prototyping”
Seven secret closed bunkers were rehearsing the end of the world. It was delicate work to build an stable synthetic…
New short story: “Forensic Analysis”
Kate’s anger always knew it first. The rest of us would follow: we were looking at the data with as…