How discovery actually works. Below, everything that touches this field, including pieces that live mostly in neighboring territory.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
One irregular dispatch when a new piece lands: notes on AI, evolution, complexity, and the biology of discovery. No noise.
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