Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon)

#Data scientist, #Researcher, Bioinformatician, Photographer, Geek & Bookworm. PhD #AI #LLM
@HebrewU @HyadataLab @liniallab @shebaARC

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

1/ Our paper “Protein Language Models Expose Viral Immune Mimicry” is now published in Viruses!
We show that protein Language Models can identify viral proteins, and those that fool our immune system.

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@Yampeleg opus is slow as molasses tho

[Solomon Omolabi @S_Omolabi]

@ClaudeDevs This is the workflow I want beginners to copy: do not ask the agent to finish, ask it to prove. Plan, change, test, summarize what failed, then fix. That feedback loop is where Claude Code becomes a teammate instead of a guessing machine.

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@DotDotJames @tilderesearch i.e Can I swap this into an existing model, pretrain a little bit and hope for reasonable results?

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

I'll be at #ICML 2026 in Korea at the workshop! Showing 2 of our works in LLMs for Bio/FM4LS Workshop :D

Ping me !

[ICML] Int'l Conference on Machine Learning

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@alejadroHArt Love this.

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@DrLeucine Graphs suck most (not all) of the time.

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@GeekParkHQ @Andy_ShuoYang Yeah, svd,pca are cases where memory is a serious bottleneck, nvm speed.

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@Andy_ShuoYang Or even nvidia's cuml for that matter)? i.e why do this a s a seperate library and not a PR?

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@Andy_ShuoYang In scikit-learn? #sklearn

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@anindyadeeps @cgeorgiaw @huggingscience @biohub I saw that and looks neat. Couldn't quite grok what's directly added vs HHdb 2023, a lot of the datasets seem to be metadata?

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@NPraljak @andrewwhite01 Let's see CASP results on that front

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@cgeorgiaw @huggingscience @biohub @anindyadeeps Very neat. Any alignment data? Uniref like prefiltering to save on downloading TBs?

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@proteinrosh Yay! Plans to do a new update to any foldseek collab databases of predicted + discretized structures?

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@yoavgo Very data science. i.e., just getting the model to output the top 1 feature's class bias is a rather stronger baseline than a lot of (DL) people would like to admit

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@lpachter Citation slop in medicine is a thing. Even without AI.
(You breathe in the same building, you expect coauthorship)

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@Louis9687221579 I mean, isn't it? I literally did an nlp jepa paper and it's this (I did mlm, not ntp, but representation is same)

[David Jacobs @DrJacobsRad]

The world is about to get a master class in antisemitism.

Israel's minister Ben Gvir's behavior towards the flotilla activists was unacceptable. I said so myself.

World leaders all posted angry denunciations of the Israeli government and summoned Israeli ambassadors for a dressing down.

Here, the same activists are receiving much more brutal treatment at the hands of the Spanish government. What we won't see however is an international outcry against the Spanish government.

This imbalance isn't due to the vagaries of international diplomacy. People hold the Jewish state to a higher standard than they do any other state, and fundamentally it's due of bigotry and hatred.

@AnitaAnandMP

[Dan Ofer (✈️ ICML-26 Was @Worldcon) @danofer]

@draparente I've tried telling it like Tufte, didn't work great. Should have thought of a skill :D