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…
Kurt Vonnegut’s 152 novel, Player Piano, feels terrifyingly prescient: a dystopian society where machines and computers have replaced most human workers, leaving only engineers and managers with meaningful…
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…
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…
The conviction that hashtagserendipity 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 hashtagtechbio 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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