Tom Murphy

PhD student in the Human Genetics group @MRC_Prion I’ve left mount stupid and am enjoying trying to leave the valley of despair

[Jeffrey West @mathoncbro]

This is probably the best essay I’ve read on the subject of mathematics in biology. (Gunawardena 2014)

[Erik Hoel @erikphoel]

Why I expect writing, thinking, and art to get worse following Gen AI, not better

[Michael Baym @baym]

In short:

[Chris Alvino @ChrisAlvino]

I think this is one of the best examples illustrating how LLM Al is a purely statistical model and is not doing any kind of actual "thinking" or "logic" and cannot be trusted for tasks that require even a modicum of reasoning, a short 🧵:

[Keith Hornberger @KRHornberger]

A little more on the ongoing attempts of the tech folks to reduce biology to its constitutive components. While I’ve said this attempt at reduction may be impossible, it’s actually the converse — reconstituting the whole from the parts — where the problem lies. More follows👇🏽 1/

[Quantіan @quantian1]

I just attended a talk on the mathematics of diffusion image generation models and it blew me away. Takeaways:
1. The math is very “simple”
2. In fact, it’s so simple that this method *shouldn’t really work*
3. The fact it does says something very fundamental about the universe

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@ella4756 Wait until you hear about salt AND peppering ur tomatoes

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@lizziehill35 @AlzResearchUK Very inspiring, well done Lizzie!!!

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@dbikard This is such a cool package, so far I've only tested it out on the included e.coli data. I'm wondering if there is an inbuilt function to export static images of the viewer for e.g. publications? If not, how would you recommend doing so?

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@SiddleSci @pintofscience Think I will!

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@TomTrainerSci 👏👏👏

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

Moving flat means I can no longer ignore the 20 month old kimchi jar. I don't think kitchen is high enough containment level to deal with this

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@jaimicore @slavov_n @naturemethods Would you recommend his book statistics applied to bioinformatics? i can't find much information about it

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

Quote of the day from my arsenal-supporting pal: "cut me and I bleed red"

[Dan Neidle @DanNeidle]

I gave an interview to BBC Breakfast this morning on Zahawi's statement/partial admission. That, and my detailed response, can be found here: https://t.co/2JbrUoEkV2

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@ella4756 Jan blues?

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

@Channel4 2022: The View from Space. Can't recommend this enough!!! Beautiful, sad macroscopic fly through of the year

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

Best game I’ve seen in my life time #ArgentinaVsFrance #WorldCup

[Tom Murphy @tjm_sci]

Annual login to LinkedIn. Very depressing. Most people from my school have already learnt every single programming language, graduated 10 degrees whilst being hated by the institution, and founded 23 FTSE500 companies. Jesus