Ayan
@ayanobacter
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PhD in Synbio, Entrepreneur, Open Science, Researching and Writing About Futures and Frontiers
Joined February 2022
My new post is out 🧬 If you're not paying attention to the DNA sequencing landscape, you should be. Illumina's 80%+ market share is finally facing some highly innovative challengers. The next frontier emerges: from how do we read DNA to how will we interpret all of this new data
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men used to go to war now they…
at xAI we have these things called "war rooms" for our highest priority projects basically, we cram into a conference room, sit side-by-side, and sprint until the project ships. intense, but a ton of fun. we have many active war rooms right now. 12 more days until EOY, LFG🚀
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What do these have in common? (a) Spiteful, Building-Sized Robots (b) 1950s Texts on Human Intellect (c) The Tower of Hanoi (d) Frontier Reasoning Models You'll need to read our newest essay On The Foundations of Machine Reasoning to find out! https://t.co/GqeOwOvOIK
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In my new piece I traced a lineage from electrodes in cat brains → CNNs and gaming GPUs → classifying cats to cancer → mapping streets to cell segmentation → all the way to generative AI art Now is biology responsible for AI art? You can read the full post below and decide
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the bespoke designer-molecule future is closer than you think
We raised $130M in Series B funding at a $1.3B valuation to build the computer aided design suite for molecules. The round was led by @GeneralCatalyst & @OakHCFT along with existing investors @ThriveCapital, @OpenAI, @_DimensionCap, @Neo, @lachygroom, @MenloVentures, @svangel,
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gm — The Anemoia Device is on the front page of @hackernoon this morning https://t.co/5D1IVqh8De
The Anemoia Device is a tangible, multisensory AI system that uses generative AI to translate analogue photographs into scent to create synthetic memories. - https://t.co/NvfPUwjdZy
#multimodalai #digitalscenttechnology
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“synthetic proteins and materials that rival or surpass nature’s own mechanostable systems” still so much to learn about nature’s own systems to truly understand if we’re surpassing, rivalling or just simply speeding ahead to our own demise there’s a deep need right now to
AI-designed proteins that survive 150 °C and nanonewton forces Proteins are usually fragile machines. Heat them, pull on them, or send them through a high-temperature sterilization step (like those used in hospitals), and most will unfold and aggregate, losing their function.
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Revenue is important but it's not sunlight. Ecological metaphors are seductive, even comforting, but discomfort is probably more important when survival is at stake. A guide to pragmatic survival for more idealistic thinkers and doers is clearly needed :. Good orientation,
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@dom_lucre Tag me next time LMAO. I’m not non-binary and I don’t teach children.. I teach adults
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The only thing I took away from this was outfit inspo my organic chemistry professors could never 💅🏽 @drdre4000 is an icon
🔥🚨DEVELOPING: This ‘non binary’ male teacher claims he serves the children and the lord as he shows his appreciation for kids and the church while teaching.
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@sodofi_ Byung-Chul Han argues that optimism and pessimism are both passive extremes. He frames hope instead to be active and less naive, like a pursuit shaped by challenges and a philosophical openness to the unknown. I still like optimism but think its an interesting take
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I built a machine that turns your photos into scents. Little experiment: reply with a single photo that means something to you. I’ll reply with the scent profile the Anemoia Device creates.
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Congratulations, Cyrus Clarke @cyrusclarke, on inventing the Anemoia Device and on your successful presentation at NeurIPS 2025! @medialab
#tangiblebits #tangibleinterfaces #tangiblemedia
Introducing the Anemoia Device, a scent-memory machine that uses generative AI to distill photographs into bespoke fragrances. ✺ Register your interest: https://t.co/ZedauQa6sK Guided by language models, a dial-based interface, and a custom olfactory formulation system, each
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Biology isn't inspired by technology. It is the original technology. We use machine metaphors to condense and domesticate biological complexity, creating an illusion of control. But as our machines grow less controllable, AI’s resist full comprehension, we reverse course and
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Introducing the Anemoia Device, a scent-memory machine that uses generative AI to distill photographs into bespoke fragrances. ✺ Register your interest: https://t.co/ZedauQa6sK Guided by language models, a dial-based interface, and a custom olfactory formulation system, each
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Underrated Ideas in Biotech (#7) AlphaFold predicts a protein's structure solely by looking at its sequence. But structure does not always suggest function. The next frontier is to train a model that can predict any protein's FUNCTION solely from its sequence. This is
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“Farming with Dynamite” - an E.I. DuPont De Nemours booklet from 1910 https://t.co/gDIRTVx9yJ
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Instead of bringing nature to the lab, we brought the lab to nature. Sequence in a Haystack is a short film on science, craft, and code, following two researchers, @cyrusclarke and myself as we use a @nanopore MinION to sequence the DNA of flora and fauna at Haystack Mountain
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