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Some of the most important pieces of feedback you receive as an academic are lagging indicators.

Technological development is great for increasing efficiency. There are pros and cons to this.

GPT-2 was released in 2019. So at most, the best expert in LLMs has 5 years experience. Less if you think the LLM age didn’t start in earnest until GPT-3, 3.5, or 4. And each iteration brings changes in best practices for how to extract information from them.

Google won’t release the AlphaFold3 code.

An experiment with GPT-4o, in screenshots.

Google is rolling out GenAI responses to search results. That got me thinking.

xAI is hard.

Fall in love. It’s easy to fall in love with people. I suggest falling in love with anything and everything, every chance you get. Fall in love with your coffee, your sneakers, your blue zone parking space. I’ve had a lot of fun in life falling in love with stupid, meaningless physical objects.

–Jerry Seinfeld

Those who studied alchemy looked for ways to transform matter. The goal was to transform something less valuable into something more valuable, like gold.

There is a time for careful planning, and there is a time for execution.