William Yakah

PhD(c) @Columbia studying maternal-fetal cholesterol transport and neurodevelopment

[William Yakah @willyakah]

Peer reviewers should be paid.

I’d rather a journal charges a little more to pay peer reviewers so they can review quickly with a turnaround time under 2 weeks. A lot of academic incentives are built around “for the good of science” but in this day and age that’s not enough if we really want to accelerate science.

Incentivize earlier review with higher pay, open up a market of review so it doesn’t get stuck in one person’s desk. We sit on great discoveries so long that by the time it’s published it’s old news. That’s got to change

[William Yakah @willyakah]

I’m having too much fun with Codex. Life on easy mode. Damn.

[William Yakah @willyakah]

@SportsCenter I was happy with just adding Jaylen Brown to Sixers but LEBRON TOO???? 🤯🤯🤯 Let’s go!!!

[William Yakah @willyakah]

There’s no way B̶a̶r̶c̶e̶l̶o̶n̶a̶ Spain is beating Messi’s Argentina in this WC final. That’s their idol they grew up emulating. Deep inside they want him to win probably more than they do. And I don’t blame them. They get to witness history and that’s a win for them

[Tandy @LFC_Tandy]

Born too late to see dinosaurs
Born too early to see flying cars
Born just in time to witness Leo Messi

[William Yakah @willyakah]

Part of Messi’s aura for majority of us has to come from the fact that because we don’t understand Spanish, everything we get from him comes from the pitch. And on the pitch, he’s a beauty to watch. And that’s why football brings us together because it transcends languages

[William Yakah @willyakah]

I hear this argument a lot as a case against having regulatory checks/standard bodies. The existence of SBs wouldn’t necessarily slow down progress, but rather serve as an additional layer of QA to the frontier labs. This should not affect competition.

It’ll give the experts a hot second to “make sense of new inventions and help propose ways to (at least try to) safeguard them. Because all it takes it ONE mistake from a frontier lab to, in borrowing Demis’s analogy, burn an entire ecosystem from the fire they created from sand. I’d like to believe every economy in the world would like to join hands to avoid such scenario.

[William Yakah @willyakah]

The way we do science is rapidly changing. But the leaders are still stuck on that one time they tried AI a year ago and it hallucinated (or didn’t perform some magic they expected), so they gave up. And they’re discounting everything else till now. Tragic.

[William Yakah @willyakah]

@sama 5.6 Sol is insanely good at design. First model to impress me on that front. The attention to detail, the cohesiveness, the color choices- wow. Every single time I spin out a mockup I’m baffled by the output. S/o to the team

[William Yakah @willyakah]

This would be so much fun to watch!

[maurice @tallmaurice]

this is random but the world cup got me thinking: a 50-team/50-state US basketball tourney. NBA/WNBA players allowed. held once every four years.

[William Yakah @willyakah]

The AI for science wave leans heavily comp bio - Claude Science, Codex, Biomni, all of it. Experimental bio folks like me are getting left out. We’re fixing that soon, stay tuned 👀

[William Yakah @willyakah]

This England - Mexico game will be talked about for ages to come. Most electric game of the WC so far

[William Yakah @willyakah]

I just panicked a little before watching this, thinking Claude just took us out of business before we even launched our product - phew! We need better tools for researchers and it’s awesome to see the space getting some attention!

[Claude @claudeai]

Introducing Claude Science, a new app designed with every stage of research in mind.

Artifacts traced to their code, environments managed on demand, and 60+ optional scientific databases that you can connect.

Available now in beta.

[William Yakah @willyakah]

You’ve gotta love WC knockout games

[William Yakah @willyakah]

@garyalsmith My pleasure, boss! If you’re in Boston and you want a taste of Ghana, RedRed Kitchen is the place to go! Also vending at Boston’s FIFA Fan fest!

[William Yakah @willyakah]

Wow. What a time to be in NYC

[William Yakah @willyakah]

I’d also add that treating data that didn’t fit with a hypothesis for that particular publication as less important, desensitized researchers from sharing all data - positive or negative. There’s so much unpublished data out there that could answer so many questions without re-experimenting

[William Yakah @willyakah]

@karpathy Working at Anthropic is every PhD nerd’s dream

[William Yakah @willyakah]

Man, that sixers win felt good!! So we’re winning the chip??? Maybe I should calm down

[William Yakah @willyakah]

R² = 0.9056, P< 0.001

[Kirk Goldsberry @kirkgoldsberry]

Ladies and gentlemen, LeBron James

[William Yakah @willyakah]

@Truthful_ast “Never Tell Me The Odds” is such a great name