Painting of a woodland carpeted with light purple blossoms
Britain is home to almost half of the world’s bluebells, found in ancient or semi-natural woodlands, flowering in April and May. 'Bluebell woods' by contemporary UK painter Susan Entwistle #WomensArt
It's not a staycation if you actually go somewhere.
New CRAN package peppwR with initial version 0.1.0
#rstats
https://cran.r-project.org/package=peppwR
"It didn't fail" definitely reads like "It didn't succeed" to me.
I have an A1200 in the back room cupboard that I keep promising myself ill get working again.
Penguin Classics cover of John Marr and other Sailors by Herman Melville. Cover image is a b/w promo photo of The Smiths
Have we not eaten while another starved? Will you punish us for that? Will you reward us for the virtue of starving while others ate? No man earns punishment, no man earns reward. Free your mind of the idea of deserving, the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think
LLMs are now widely used in social science as stand-ins for humans—assuming they can produce realistic, human-like text
But... can they? We don’t actually know.
In our new study, we develop a Computational Turing Test.
And our findings are striking:
LLMs may be far less human-like than we think.🧵
Thank you very much, Gaurav, I appreciate you taking the time to say so.
(With apologies to Randall Munroe)
New pre-print from our group showing remarkable synchrony of proliferative growth and regulated cell death during plant infection- each conidial cell has a different fate - by the rice blast fungus. Led by Alice Eseola with @osesmir.bsky.social Lauren Ryder @danmaclean.bsky.social and Martin Egan
2️⃣ For the love of all that remains sane in the world.
Great to hear Burnham's been to Mancwalk 2000.
Normalize never saying "leverage" or "utilize" as a verb. Tempted? "Use" is right there!
Simple words are better words
"It has never been clearer: this is a class war, mediated through one person."
Love this article from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social. I snorted several times, but she makes some serious points: in the eyes of the tabloids, the working class Rayner can't win, whatever she does.
$ ls -laht
drwxrwsr-x 3 uname grp 27 Nov 16 2006 .nautilus
drwxrws--- 3 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .metacity
-rwxrwx--- 1 uname grp 26 Nov 16 2006 .dmrc
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Chris outlining the different AI coding agents that can be used for ontology development. Working on documenting best practices for this ai4curation.GitHub.io/aidocs #BOSC2025 #ISMBECCB2025
Today #BOSC2025 and #BOKR (formerly Bioontologies) COSI’s, Chris Mungall is doing the keynote on Open KBs in the age of generative AI #ISMBECCB2025
*Learning visualization in Python as an R user*
#ggplot
I work with a lot of very intelligent people - the experts in a very select field - yet every morning they fight over the parking spots in the shade. By lunchtime they're all in full sun and my unwanted "sunny" spot keeps my car nice and cool. They never learn.
AlphaFold is great, but contrary to public opinion it has not completely solved the protein folding problem. Much work remains to be done.
clauswilke.substack.com/p/no-alphafo...
I recently ran a session at CSAMA with Laurent Gatto and this is the way. "Good enough" with knowledge of the tools that can help you get there. Here's some of the recs from the paper.
😀 This is good to hear. My kid is past kpop phase so won't choose it, but I put it on my mental watchlist as a candidate for one of those nothing else on, dad can still choose some good things, type evenings.
Nice. An API is like a structured set of URLs for querying data that you can send to someone's computer and they'll send you an appropriate response. Eg api.mcdonalds.com/menu/sold/cheeseburger might return 31234543219494938263628 (some big number, anyway)
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