Synthetic Biology, CRISPR, GPGPU, Japanese Design, Electronica, Game Theory, AI, Contemporary Art+Cinema, and Leica Photography [Views expressed are my own]
All-time best quote from Dune:
"Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."
Bi Gan and Bertrand Bonello have produced brilliant films about the erosion of human life in the Post-Singularity/AI Era. Resurrection was an amazing Buddhist parable and The Beast used a Henry James novella as a framing to show loss of human being in a world of “AI alignment”.
Researchers at @ucsc have now reported on what they suggest is the first-ever method for analyzing #RNAsequencing data genome-wide using a “pantranscriptome,” which combines a transcriptome and a pangenome. Learn more: https://t.co/IrefDkIOkz
Bret Easton Ellis truly is his own best literary creation. I am thoroughly enjoying #TheShards as a meta-fictional conceit. This extends the self-reflexive tropes of “Lunar Park” well. "The Shards: A novel" by Bret Easton Ellis https://t.co/ggBRAtndnp
Was it really almost 12 years ago that we launched Isotope aka Azure HDInsight? How the world has evolved for large scale cloud computing. https://t.co/GytFwdGAIr
Can neural networks learn to perform explanatory & counterfactual reasoning? Researchers find that an object-centric transformer substantially outperforms leading neuro-symbolic models on two reasoning tasks thought to be challenging for deep neural nets: https://t.co/IchQKRDjRL
#SymmetricDS Open Source Database Replication — this is a key piece of mandatory infrastructure that everyone needs to avoid silos and islands of state/context/insight https://t.co/xYv56sOU5c
Introducing the TensorFlow Constrained Optimization library, a new tool to configure and train #MachineLearning models based on combinations of metrics, making it easy to formulate and solve problems of interest to the ML fairness community. Learn more at https://t.co/vVdqfHgWnL