Anna Woodard

Then: particle physics @CMSExperiment @cern. Now: @DSI_UChicago deep learning + medical imaging, cat whisperer

good analogies are my love language

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

This is really exciting. One direction I'd be especially excited about is complementary but slightly different: a modular "OpenClaw for science" layer — a reusable repo of scientific skills plus lightweight operating machinery that lets agents carry a research process across long-running loops.

By skills, I mean things like curiosity/next-check selection, hypothesis decomposition, experiment design, artifact and log inspection, honest negative-result handling, and upkeep of a running experiment ledger. The ledger lets both humans and agents quickly recover context, spot bigger-picture patterns, and avoid getting stuck in dead ends.

By operating machinery, I mean lightweight coordination: recurring wakeups, status checks, context recovery. Stuff that keeps a scientific campaign moving correctly overnight or over a weekend. For many of us in academic science, the compute environment is shared HPC clusters and Slurm/PBS/etc queues rather than Docker, so an execution layer native to that world would open this up to many more labs.

Feels very complementary to the runtime/ecosystem side of Flamebird and the end-to-end AI scientist direction in NeuriCo.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@svpino Does it work with remote ssh?

[Subomi Omoleye @o_subomi]

Thrilled to have given my first #RSNA Oral Presentation yesterday. Grateful for the mentorship and support from Dr. Abe Hiroyuki, @folopade, @EpibioHuo, @foozlefoo @UChicagoRADS @UCCancerCenter

Honored to have met inspiring leaders in #BreastImaging #ImagingAI #RSNA23

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@VPrasadMDMPH For some, especially young people, it's not a utilitarian QALY calculation, it's a preference. For them, an exceedingly remote shot at a cure is worth the risk of doing harm.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@VPrasadMDMPH I mostly agree, especially that doctors should be careful not to misinform the public.

But as a person in my 30s with metastatic TNBC, if SOC can't cure, I don't think it's irrational to be interested in beyond-the-SOC options. We already know what doesn't work.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@BlueObserverA @Ihornistfinkle @felixchin1 @VPrasadMDMPH IMO it's more useful for advanced programmers than beginners. Easier for us to spot errors and push the answers in the right direction. Beginners can go down the wrong rabbit hole.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@SpencrGreenberg @VPrasadMDMPH This might be a useful lense for thinking about biomedical papers where we know the prior should be low of anything being beneficial

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@francofor38 I hope you run again next time! I'll help canvas

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@francofor38 Thanks @francofor38! 🙏🙏🙏
You've got my vote!

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@francofor38 What's your plan to fix the portage park pool schedule?

The pool is an amazing community asset, but nobody with a family can use it because of extremely limited hours.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@DJJonnyTravieso @TamarHaspel @kprather88 The review isn't trying to answer if perfectly-used respirators are effective. It's trying to answer if real-world use is effective. That's the question that matters for policy decisions.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@deliprao @skdh This got me into physics around her age

https://t.co/H42ZI7NrlS

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@amanrsanger I'm looking forward to trying this out, it looks great! Parity with VSCode's remoteSSH is a requirement for me. Is that supported?

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@deliprao @iclr_conf IMO good short papers are harder to write than good medium length papers

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@keyutian Thank you, and happy
lunar new year! 🥳

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@kushirosea @rasbt That paper relied on ViTs. The critical difference here is they have adapted the method for CNNs.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@elevateapp This looks interesting! Have you done any studies that demonstrate benefit?

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@driscollis If you need to work on remote machines, VSCode's remoteSSH can't be beat.

[Anna Woodard @foozlefoo]

@gwern @benclifford