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@gmo
synbio Ph.D, host of /synbio 🧬, co-host /science 👩🏽🔬, genetically modified organism, blog: editlife.substack.com
Is biology responsible for AI art (slop¿)?
You can read my new post and decide for yourself.
This piece takes you on a journey. It begins with electrodes in cat brains, somewhere in between we go from recognizing cats to detecting cancers, taking street mapping architecture and applying it to cell segmentation, then ...
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New post out 🧬
On biology as the original technology
Challenging how we use machine metaphors to condense and domesticate biological complexity, creating an illusion of control.
Only to reverse course and explain this new complexity of machines growing less controllable, AI’s resisting full comprehension, through ...
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lol why does Dan always talks to us like a toxic ex who preemptively threatens to break up with you after they’ve done something that might cause some friction
Maybe it’s not the intention, if I give benefit of the doubt, but this reads like: “if you don’t like it, then gtfo”
Is there a comms person at merkle? I feel...
In case you missed it
To reiterate: We’re focused on building a a great wallet that will get more people to use it. Every new, retained wallet user is a new user for the protocol.
We tried social-first for 4.5 years. It didn’t work for us. Wallet has been growing so we’re doubling down on that direction.
That means
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I’m halfway through the @protocollabs d/acc residency
Feels special to be here at @edgecity Patagonia building biosecurity infrastructure at what feels like the edge of the world
mountain air, trail dust, icy blue lakes, wild horse encounters & an evolving MVP
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Arc Institute has been cooking lately…
I’m just catching up on the preprint of the 1st functional AI generated viral genome
And they come out with a new DNA editing technology in Science
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