Rolf Mathies

co-founder @EarlybirdVC

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"if you’re at the point when you’re tossing a coin to help you decide whether to quit, you should have quit some time ago"

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"Expert players abandon about 80 per cent of their hands in the popular variant of Texas Hold’em. ..Compare that to an amateur, who will stick with their starting cards over half the time"

..the ability to say "no" is highly underrated

https://t.co/AotQMdFizO

[LatchBio @LatchBio]

Introducing Pollock: a single-cell browser for live transformations on massive datasets.

- Browse, edit, or create annotations
- Subcluster and re-do dim reduction
- Visualize differential gene expression
- Track all transformations and analyses

Use it now!

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[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

a lot of programmable biology will be open-source 🤓

[Jean-Philippe Fortin @JayPykw]

crisprVerse is an open-source ecosystem, and builds on top of the rich and versatile @Bioconductor project.

Check out our GitHub page:
https://t.co/cSQLiPVFZp

[Ethan Mollick @emollick]

I expect that we are going to see an explosion of “secret AI,” where AI advice is delivered by humans. Why?

We hate to listen to AI. For example, getting feedback from an AI system improved employee performance… until people learned it was from an AI, then performance DROPPED.

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

JPMorgan Launches Life-Sciences Venture Group
New investment team to back early- to growth-stage companies 🙂

https://t.co/8XZQfNHYNZ via @WSJ

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"..customers can now pay for a Deliveroo takeaway in instalments via Klarna.....Still, it’s hard to escape the impression of two drunks propping each other up at the end of a long party"

How will we remember the age of cheap money? https://t.co/RbriPwFSDE

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

eyes wide shut

[Mike Bird @Birdyword]

It is amazing that the idea of escaping volatility by investing in things that are not marked to market regularly has gained such prominence. It's the financial equivalent of infant children believing that the room disappears when their eyes are covered.

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"On the surface, the movers, streamers and creepers—and thus their problems—look distinct. On closer inspection, though, their businesses all turn out to face the same main pitfalls.."
creepers 🤣

https://t.co/EHMSul4Xkb

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"In a sop to bleary-eyed lawyers, participants on video calls will be allowed to turn off their cameras between the hours of 8pm and 8am"

better it is 🤪 https://t.co/mW6v4DVAid

[Andreas Steno Larsen @AndreasSteno]

Deglobalisation means less China (Chart 1)

ESG (so far) means more China (Chart 2)

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"there are hundreds of millions of dollars being deployed towards glorified tech demos built on top of identical datasets"

[Will Manidis @WillManidis]

To be clear-- innovations in large language models and ML broadly are real. We've made a decade of progress in the last month alone.

I've been running a large language model company for four years now, I am not a skeptic. These things will change the world.

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

We use Transformer language models fine-tuned for detection of sentiment (positive, negative) and Ekman’s six basic emotions (anger, disgust, fear, joy, sadness, surprise) plus neutral to automatically label the headlines.

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

not very surprising but still very 🙁

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. https://t.co/nPp0HHnzUV

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

https://t.co/jVdyQd565V

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

"GitHub Copilot is already writing 40% of the code for users of the AI pair programming tool, which turns natural-language prompts into suggested code, according to Nadella"

probably some PR but still...

Embrace, extend, Ignite https://t.co/LvbNDxOKHc

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

good & scary

[Riley Ray Griffin @rileyraygriffin]

⁦@Ginkgo⁩ has developed tools that US intelligence agencies can use to detect engineered DNA, a milestone that could better protect the nation from human-made biological threats.

This reads like Sci-Fi—but it isn’t! More here: https://t.co/EV1lKxOvNz

[Earlybird VC @EarlybirdVC]

🎉👁 Congratulations to Earlybird Health’s Ophthalmology portfolio company Oculis on announcing the creation of “Oculis Holding SA”, a @Nasdaq-listed biopharma company, following a combination with the EBAC.

👉 More on https://t.co/hkDuwaAESi

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

highly recommended reading to understand politics, power, sycophantism, ego & war ...(unfortunately) lots of rhyming history on all sides...

Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson https://t.co/DvnKsTGlEC via @amazon

[Rolf Mathies @rolfmathies]

money on strike 🙈

[*Walter Bloomberg @DeItaone]

JAPAN'S 10-YEAR GOVERNMENT BONDS UNTRADED FOR 3RD STRAIGHT SESSION - FIRST TIME EVER