August 2026 links #2
Notes on AI, AI in the lab, AI and biology, AI and biosecurity, AI and writing....
Recombination-Based Autonomous Protein Structure-Function Search
An interesting preprint showed up last week in the autonomous agent-driven experimentation space - an area I'm paid to be very interested in. This didn't run on our hardware, but we certainly could r...
Quarto Extension: arXiv with Typst
A Quarto Typst extension that renders the classic single-column ML-paper layout you see on arXiv from NeurIPS and related conferences....
SIMB Notebook: The Frontiers of Protein Engineering
The Society for Industrial Microbiology (SIMB) annual meeting in Austin the first week of the month was great fun. I caught up with two Warpers, saw some other contacts from that era and met a bunch ...
HiFi's Not Very Pacific Waters
<div>PacBio had a major shakeup early this month. First came a large round of layoffs, which caught several individuals who were very much the face of innovation on social media. Next came the sudden...
On computational reproducibility -- surely requirements.txt is enough? Right?
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CSV to Canvas Quiz
I vibe coded an app to convert text / CSV files into importable Canvas quiz item banks...
AI in Drug Discovery: Data Quality, Not Quantity, Is the Bottleneck
<p>Two important essays on AI in drug discovery landed in August. Both are worth your time. Both have the right intuitions. And one of them is subtly framing the wrong problem, in my opinion.</p> <p>...
August 2026 links #1
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Codon usage bias for prose
Anthropic is now watermarking Claude's output. The mechanism is statistical (not lexical) and a detection hit doesn't mean what most people will assume....