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BRIG v1.0.0 Released β BLAST Ring Image Generator
This is dedicated to Joe Healey Who asked me many years ago to round up the version number to v1.
BRIG creates circular comparison images showing sequence similarity between a reference genome and multiple query sequences as concentric rings β
a staple visualisation in microbial genomics.
Download from: https://github.com/happykhan/BRIG/releases/tag/v1.0.0
Or sourceforge: https://sourceforge.net/projects/brig/files/v1.0.0/
New feature in SeqFu, under development: `seqfu less`.
Multiple visualisations, scrolling, search box (with IUPAC oligo matching).
"AI companies claim their tools couldn't exist without training on copyrighted material. It turns out, they could β it's just really hard. To prove it, AI researchers trained a new model that's less powerful but much more ethical. That's because the LLM's dataset uses only public domain and openly licensed material."
tl;dr: If you use public domain data (i.e. you don't steal from authors and creators) you can train a LLM just as good as what was cutting edge a couple of years ago. What makes it difficult is curating the data, but once the data has been curated once, in principle everyone can use it without having to go through the painful part.
So the whole "we have to violate copyright and steal intellectual property" is (as everybody already knew) total BS.
> I find my feelings about #AI are actually pretty similar to my feelings about #blockchains: they do a poor job of much of what people try to do with them, they can't do the things their creators claim they one day might, and many of the things they are well suited to do may not be altogether that beneficial. And while I do think that AI tools are more broadly useful than blockchains, they also come with similarly monstrous costs.
Nabil-Fareed Alikhan
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Cory Doctorow
Lars Willighagen
JOSS
Vincent Arel-Bundock