andrew giessel

biology+computers. my hash table contains multitudes.

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@p_maverick_b 🍎?

[andrew giessel @giessel]

An excellent article on the future of math (and thinking work generally) in the age of LLMs.

[Apoorva Panidapu @apoorvapanidapu]

Earlier this month I volunteered at Stanford’s Future of Math symposium, and ever since, I've been puzzling through what it now means to pursue mathematics as a student in the age of AI. I wrote an essay to make sense of it all: https://t.co/cYyUDqSady

[andrew giessel @giessel]

very thought provoking talk from @andy_matuschak . I found out about this the day after it happened. Thank you for putting it online! https://t.co/b0BqzIBqGw

[Garyk Brixi @garykbrixi]

Evo 2 is out in Nature today, showing that genome language models can predict and design across the full complexity of life, from phages to eukaryotes.

A few surprises from the project, including how ignoring trillions of nucleotides was key to getting a good model. 🧵

[andrew giessel @giessel]

Really good! love the idea that the cortex/cerebellum are the flexible "scaling" systems. What could the AI analog to the steering subsystem be? Interesting connections to computational efficiency here, too.

[Patrick Mineault @patrickmineault]

How do cell types relate to function? Prodded by @AdamMarblestone's recent appearance on @dwarkeshpodcast, I break down the logic of Steve Byrnes' theory of the steering vs. learning subsystem, and answer why many cell types are better than few for instincts and primary rewards.

[andrew giessel @giessel]

related paper from last year: https://t.co/3eUkH0xFlL

[andrew giessel @giessel]

I've loved this idea for a long time and it's exciting to see progress!

[QuiverAI @QuiverAI]

Today we're opening our public beta access to Arrow 1.0

A first of it's kind SVG AI model.
Turn your ideas into graphics.

[Christina Agapakis @thisischristina]

Science is in crisis. When we’ve faced challenges in the past, scientists have retreated to the status quo. It’s time for extraordinary metascience.

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@josephreisinger So good. The parts about different response curves were a beautiful link between behavior and things I could imagine networks of cells doing.

Have you read A Brief History of Intelligence? Recommend!

Also lmk if you have a Goodreads…

[andrew giessel @giessel]

Amazing opportunity!

[Tony Kulesa @kulesatony]

🚀 Fellowship applications are OPEN for Encode: AI for Science.

What if you could use AI to
- Design shape-shifting robots
- See through solid materials
- Decode language of the brain
- Create advanced materials

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@AmandaAskell This is brilliant

[Tony Kulesa @kulesatony]

Announcing Encode: AI for Science

We're launching a fellowship powered by @ARIA_research to connect top AI talent with leading UK science labs to unlock the next wave of scientific breakthroughs.

[Niko McCarty. @NikoMcCarty]

How can we condense 50-100 years of biological progress into 5-10 years?

I wrote a response to @DarioAmodei's essay, "Machines of Loving Grace." Most bottlenecks slowing biology today, I argue, are biophysical rather than computational.

LEVERS FOR BIOLOGICAL PROGRESS🔻

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@michael_nielsen Have you read Being Wrong?

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@thisischristina These were so insanely good!

[andrew giessel @giessel]

An inspired choice! Hinton will certainly go down as one of the most important computer scientists of all time, and Hopfield has had a long and deeply inspiring career.

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

BREAKING NEWS
The Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the 2024 #NobelPrize in Physics to John J. Hopfield and Geoffrey E. Hinton “for foundational discoveries and inventions that enable machine learning with artificial neural networks.”

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@rao2z Still with higher performance on zero than one shot, but a significant jump nonetheless. Makes me suspect that it will improve with scale in a way the llms won’t. Thanks for this work!

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@thesephist @ThriveCapital Awesome move! Congrats!

[andrew giessel @giessel]

@ArtemKRSV I love it! Who did it?

[andrew giessel @giessel]

😍 imagine if all these folks worked at the same institute

[Grace Chuang @bygracechuang]

Today I’m so excited to launch The Biocreative Index, a directory of people working at the intersection of biology and creative disciplines. Want to join the index, be connected to our community, or contribute a resource? Head over to our website for more: https://t.co/zJT0fZIdku