Kevin McPherson
@thekevinmcp
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Former @NIH biophysicist turned ML/AI engineer. I tweet about computing, science, and society. Wonder is all around me! Building https://t.co/UxrgTpabGs 🧬
The Great Basin
Joined July 2025
Nah. Only developers understand the real mental health tracker.
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This seems like a really great way to set up a true interdisciplinary research career in the social sciences (e.g., metascience research) then partner with some engineers or computer science-y types to create a virtuous vertical: 1) here's the problem - descriptive research 2)
@vocalcry @JackScannell13 @IFP This would be a great place for academia to step in. But most academics have no clue what the bottlenecks are in drug discovery. So you have hundreds of millions spent on all sorts of vanity projects that are neither basic science nor super useful for enabling drug dev.
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This is me armchair philosophizing on a Thursday, people.
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I'm constantly wondering if I'm a utilitarian or a consequentialist. I guess I could be both, right? No logical inconsistencies there?
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Hm. Perhaps. But there is also a ton of historical evidence to suggest otherwise. Happy to hear both sides.
the hill i’ll die on drinking culture destroys dating if you need lowered inhibitions just to be real, what’s the point? if you can’t sit across from someone sober and talk for hours + actually show up as yourself, there’s no relationship there and there never will be
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This is a great insight especially for public goods. Usually they have long yield time horizons.
@vocalcry @JackScannell13 @IFP In my undergraduate degree and then during my PhD we never once discussed the concept of pharma productivity. Pharma underinvests in a lot of "public good"-type projects that would catalyze the whole industry but take long to yield results.
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I love this 🫶
Not enough talk about the case for kids as uncorrelated alpha. In my day job, I'm synched to the big DC calendar of elections and recesses, ups and downs. But when I get home, my kids don't care what staffer I met with. I cook a dinner (that they refuse) and read them The
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When anything gets acquired by Atlassian, I feel like it's just a countdown before it becomes uncool. Goodbye Loom :'(
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Making housing affordable in any given city or suburb is how you attract talent there. I always found it baffling that places like universities weren't on the frontlines of housing issues, pushing for policies that made housing more affordable for their faculty and staff
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This might be the dumbest tweet I’ve read all morning. And the tweet quoted is even more dumb. 🙈
Molecular biology ended Darwinism as a viable theory many decades ago, but scientists kept it quiet because it’s their religion now.
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We should definitely bring back the culture of learning to say "no" politely and with grace! Love this.
Thank you so much for the generous invite to your holiday party. Sounds like a lovely affair. I will not be in attendance.
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I think one of the flaws of education is that we tell kids they can be anything when what we should tell them is pursue things they’re good at.
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116 - move the horizontal stick in the 4 to make another 1 at the front.
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My motto 🫡
Tired, but winning
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Anyone use bun and can tell me about its benefits? I don't use JS/TS that much, but bun looks neat.
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For 1) why not use Cursor's new agents feature? Less technical overhead, more visibility!
Three indispensable technologies to maximize what you get from Claude Code/Codex: 1. tmux - the terminal multiplexer. By splitting your window easily into multiple terminals, you can have multiple coding agents working simultaneously on different aspects of projects. While one
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Only a robot would say this...and a complete shill for his own product.
Jimmy Fallon: "And do you use ChatGPT when raising your baby?" Sam Altman: "I cannot imagine figuring out how to raise a newborn without ChatGPT."
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