I’m fascinated by the microbiome and search for ways to harness it to make us healthier.
Developper of metagenome-atlas.github.io
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One thing I really appreciate about @TheConversationUS (and hope you do too) is that our expert authors often educate me about issues long before they surface as crises in most popular media.
Case in point: back in 2015, we published this article about algorithmic bias. https://theconversation.com/big-data-algorithms-can-discriminate-and-its-not-clear-what-to-do-about-it-45849
If you think this is valuable journalism, I hope you'll support us.
Right now, we have a match from podcaster and author Guy Kawaski: if we raise $12,500, he'll give $25,000.
https://donate.theconversation.com/us?utm_campaign=US+Donations+End+of+Year+2023&utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=social
The problem is even worse for niche or domain-specific tools, because Copilot acts like it knows what they are - even when it has little to no examples to draw from.
The amount of people showing up in the #YarnSpinner Discord and similar spaces, trying to get other people to spend their free time debugging code the "author" themselves don't understand and couldn't be bothered writing has already exceeded my quota for giving a f*ck about this whole debacle.
What is the purpose of dreaming? Many scientists have postulated a role for dreaming in learning, often with the aim of improving generative models. In this issue of Patterns, Erik Hoel proposes a novel hypothesis, namely, that dreaming provides a means ...
@apcamargo https://github.com/iqbal-lab-org/AllTheBacteria
This effort will also define all pangenomes.
Joel Abrams 🫖
Marc Robinson-Rechavi
Mars Buttfield-Addison 🛰
