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Science & Method

How discovery actually works. Below, everything that touches this field, including pieces that live mostly in neighboring territory.

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Science & Method

Types of Scientific Discovery

A discovery is not one kind of event. It helps to place any breakthrough on two axes at once: which stage of inquiry it belongs to, and what it does to the surrounding framework. The stage runs from noticing a…

1 min · Science & Method
Biology

Reading Derek Lowe with Perplexity

Always stimulated by Derek Lowe's writings (in spite of an average 50% agreement rate), I tried (a condensed version of) his OpenAI Deep Research prompt on the toxic effects of thalidomide with Perplexity Deep…

2 min · Biology
Artificial Intelligence

High variance kills traditional SaaS unit economics

That’s a section of the super clear and insightful article by @anjali Shrivastava, “A broken pricing paradigm”. It was published more than 2 years ago and yet it is more relevant than ever in the “agentic…

2 min · Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence

Not ONE but TWO AI (Co-)Scientist articles popped up in Nature today

Not ONE but TWO AI (Co-)Scientist articles popped up in Nature today under Accelerated Review. 1⃣ A multi-agent system for automating scientific discovery by the never-shy folks from FutureHouse/Edison…

2 min · Artificial Intelligence
Biotech & Pharma

ould Life Insurance become the new Health Insurance?

One of the most unexpectedly and delightfully insightful sessions at DOC, the warm and curiously strong gathering curated by Jordan Shlain, MD and John Battelle on the theme of Truth in Medicine, was the one…

1 min · Biotech & Pharma
Artificial Intelligence

I have recently seen an upsurge of interest in...

I have recently seen an upsurge of interest in... stigmergy! I was wondering why for a minute and then realized it is central to the "new" paradigm of agentic orchestration. If you don't know stigmergy, the…

1 min · Artificial Intelligence
Innovation & Discovery

AHA

The conviction that serendipity can be, if not systematized, at least harnessed for augmented scientific discovery, has fueled my (obviously nonlinear) professional trajectory. As we saw with Fleming's…

1 min · Innovation & Discovery
Artificial Intelligence

Techbio Foundation Models

Thank you Compound and Dr. Shelby for maintaining this repository of hashtag#techbio foundation models. I don't know whether to be excited by a Cambrian explosion of LLMs for bio or deflated by the emerging…

1 min · Artificial Intelligence
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