Sure! That's a novel use and has something interesting to go along with it. I'm just seeing a lot of, "I used Claude to rewrite old cold in Rust" and hope we don't expect the community to have to go through this stuff. Especially when different people use LLMs do the multiple slightly dif rewrites.
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This Is Just To Say
I have turned off
the AI features
that were in
the update
and which
you were probably
hoping
to monetize
Fuck you
they were stupid
so unnecessary
and so annoying
These fuckin chuds
Naming your biology LLM after Rosalind Franklin is… hell is not hot enough
I’m looking for an automated way to read others’s scientific data without giving credit or acknowledgement, and also claim full credit for insights from it. And I want it to have a fitting name
OAI: say no more
OpenAI: We’re burning money like the Joker. A miracle needs to happen for us to turn a profit
Microsoft: Please please use our AI systems, we’re teetering on the edge here
Anthropic: I wonder what’ll kill us first: lawsuits, regulations or model collapse
Media and universities: AI is here to stay
Conclusion:
LLM‑assisted software engineers have to choose between reckless speed and paralysing verification.
With generation cheap and correctness costly, frustration caused by cognitive overload (from outages or extensive verification) becomes the only stable operating mode.
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No one likes Vance, including myself. And yes I know the pope was quoting Isiah but the catholic church might wanna check its own history on involvement with wars and swords just a little bit...
Today, we gave evidence in Parliament on protest in the UK.
We raised concerns of the raft of anti-protest laws we’ve seen over the last five years, including new legislation passed just last night that restricts repeat demonstrations.
Don't threaten me with a good time! 😅
a simplified evolutionary tree of eukaryotes with pictures of various microbes
New #ISEPpapers #preprint by @deemteam.bsky.social: Re-evaluating the eukaryotic Tree of Life with independent phylogenomic data www.biorxiv.org/content/10.6...
#Protists #Microbes #Evolution #Eukaryotes #TreeOfLife #Phylogeny #Phylogenomics #Bioinformatics #Algae
I honestly think AI being popular with the worst people on earth (in addition to Boomers and Gen Xers) is gonna be what turns the tide. If your parents like something it isn't cool. And having CEOs whine about not enough people adopting AI makes it even less cool. Subcultural capital matters
Regular reminder that the literal 1st full conversation in ALIEN is a contract negotiation, & that everything that goes wrong throughout those movies happens because the Weyland-Yutani Corporation programmed all of its "AI" systems to put any possibility of profit over & above the lives of the crew.
The UK's "over-reliance on foreign [tech] companies has become an urgent issue of national security as US foreign policy actions are creating geopolitical uncertainty.”
Our new report calls for the UK to pursue Digital Sovereignty to protect its critical infrastructure.
🗣️ ORG's @jim.killock.org.uk
France is switching from Microsoft to Linux
"We must become less reliant on American tools and regain control of our digital destiny. We can no longer accept that our data, our infrastructure, our strategic decisions depend on solutions whose rules, pricing, evolution, and risks we do not control."
By 2021, Orbán had already implemented every anti-LGBTQ+ ban now sweeping the US. In 2023, he said of this: "Hungary is actually an incubator where experiments are done on the future of conservative policies." This was clearly true. May his 2026 loss tomorrow continue to prefigure fascism's future.
Love this!!! #protistsonsky
8/ Also baked in the weird translation tables for you,
@dumack.bsky.social - but in ETP mode, that is unfortunately not supported from the GeneMark side; should work in ET and EP mode. We are working on a very different solution for protists...
3/ Repeat masking baked in. Evidence types first-class: RNA-Seq, PacBio IsoSeq (BAM/FASTQ), proteins, plus a dual mode fusing all three. VARUS pulls SRA from just genus + species. UTRs via StringTie2. Optional ncRNA: rRNA, tRNA, Rfam, lncRNA merged into one GFF3.
Good. Some Millennials stand with them.
Keeping this handy as I think I will sadly be forced to use it a lot
#noAI
I certainly hope to not receive any review requests for this type of software. DOI is fine, but I don't want to see informatics journals start accepting '"I" rewrote program X in language Y' type articles.
I'm not looking forward to a future where all the tools are being vibe-rewritten into languages people don't want to learn. Who will maintain all this? The original maintainers won't. It's not the language they were comfortable with. Does the prompter understand the tool well enough?
Joep Schuurkes On the acceptance of GenAI Joep Schuurkes — 5 April 2026 By using GenAl: • I accept the models were trained on stolen data. • I accept that the data was labeled by exploited workers. • I accept the environmental costs of the data centers running these models. • I accept that I am outsourcing some of my skills to a company. • I accept these companies don't have a viable business model. • I accept that I am granting more power to big tech and their vision for the world. • I accept that I am granting more power to the United States. • I accept that all this effort could have spent elsewhere
New syllabus extension just dropped: #ContraAI🤖 #GenAI #highereducation #teaching (by Joep Schuurkes)
“Feel free to adapt and reuse. No attribution needed (…) If you make an adaption that you also want to share, I’d love to know about it, too.”
irisvanrooijcogsci.com/2026/04/08/r...
Very excited with the online publication of our modeling work on the evolution of sexual reproduction during obligate endosymbiosis: doi.org/10.1098/rstb.... The first publication of Alkmini Zania 🎉; together with Paulien Hogeweg.
