All-time best quote from Dune: "Once men turned their thinking over to machines in the hope that this would set them free. But that only permitted other men with machines to enslave them."

Bi Gan and Bertrand Bonello have produced brilliant films about the erosion of human life in the Post-Singularity/AI Era. Resurrection was an amazing Buddhist parable and The Beast used a Henry James novella as a framing to show loss of human being in a world of “AI alignment”.

Researchers at @ucsc have now reported on what they suggest is the first-ever method for analyzing #RNAsequencing data genome-wide using a “pantranscriptome,” which combines a transcriptome and a pangenome. Learn more: https://t.co/IrefDkIOkz

Great line from Bret Easton Ellis’s new book. It’s my favorite since Glamorama and is #meta is so many ways. #TheShards #BEE

Bret Easton Ellis truly is his own best literary creation. I am thoroughly enjoying #TheShards as a meta-fictional conceit. This extends the self-reflexive tropes of “Lunar Park” well. "The Shards: A novel" by Bret Easton Ellis https://t.co/ggBRAtndnp

Metastatic Colorectal Cancers in Mice Virtually Eliminated Using Immunotherapy and Experimental Drug Combo. Learn more: https://t.co/KuclKQpvmk

OpenELM Release by #CarperAI: This is a really interesting intersection of evolutionary programming and large language models.

Was it really almost 12 years ago that we launched Isotope aka Azure HDInsight? How the world has evolved for large scale cloud computing.

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Can neural networks learn to perform explanatory & counterfactual reasoning? Researchers find that an object-centric transformer substantially outperforms leading neuro-symbolic models on two reasoning tasks thought to be challenging for deep neural nets: https://t.co/IchQKRDjRL

#RaySGD: Cheaper and Faster Distributed #Pytorch | Distributed Computing with Ray

#TheCommonProject is a truly laudable effort to build a not-for-profit digital platform for healthcare management - cf:

Excited to see #covidcheck from #TheCommonsProject (and my friend Brad Perkins, who is their CMO) @

#Nextstrain OSS project is a really cool project for pathogen tracking and genomics

#SymmetricDS Open Source Database Replication — this is a key piece of mandatory infrastructure that everyone needs to avoid silos and islands of state/context/insight

Introducing the TensorFlow Constrained Optimization library, a new tool to configure and train #MachineLearning models based on combinations of metrics, making it easy to formulate and solve problems of interest to the ML fairness community. Learn more at https://t.co/vVdqfHgWnL

Sondra Pruett-Miller discusses the recent pan-cancer CRISPR screens from Sanger and Broad https://t.co/ew1VqWTaKI

In our book we always show code equivalents for any math notation. So often, the Python & @PyTorch code is clearer and simpler. And you can actually execute it and try it! For instance, LogSumExp:

Tired of availability metrics that didn't reflect end-user experiences, and didn't give insight into how to improve, Google's G Suite team came up with a new *meaningful* availability metric... https://t.co/Oj5oK48U2q.

26 contemporary Chinese artists explore materiality in ‘Allure of Matter,' which is now on view in Chicago https://t.co/EB2u4edC1G