Kai Blin

Maybe this is a subtle dig at the chaos on my desk? If so, well played, but I’m still not giving a third party rights to use my picture.

The data use agreement to the new app we need to do our health and safety training in wants me to agree that they can use my picture to give me “access to the construction site”.
So I guess I’m expected to read the data use notice, but nobody else read it before?

Man, I hate the threading in this app. Half of the thread didn't load for me before, and I joined on the "50 % of scientists use it".
Now the whole thing is there, ignore I said anything. Sorry.

I think the underlying transformer models are pretty useful for lots of stuff in research. Similar for other AI/ML methods. Techbros convincing people that AI === LLMs muddied the waters a lot.
I wouldn't let Claude do my research, but I guess some people might.

According to my 7 year old, 12 years is damn old, though.

I might be biased, but this look certainly works well.

An access card holder of a brand called “durable” worth the part that holds the card broken

I’m getting the impression that this brand name is a lie.

Ah, nothing like light blue text on a dark blue background in a sunny meeting room.

If the craziness was only "at home", maybe people in the rest of the world would mind less? We're good at ignoring how small, unimportant countries oppress their own citizens.

Just listened to an interview with the OpenClaw dude, and this must have been the most dystopian thing I have heard in years.
It had its funny parts when they were talking about security, I’ll grant you that. But overall, it was really bleak.

But my OpenClaw told me it was a brilliant idea...

Debian?

I'm just remembering the abridged version of Schiller's Das Lied von der Glocke:

Loch in Boden, Messing rin
Glocke fertig, bimbimbim.

It fails to capture all of the nuance of the > 400 lines of the full version but gets close.

It’s gotten a bit harder now that a lot of search engines also throw genAI replies at you as the first step, and then half of the results also are genAI gibberish. I miss the days of working search hitting interesting blog posts.

Sure, not blaming the little guy/gal. I was mainly surprised the snake didn't hear me approaching. I was being noisy on purpose. But it always pays to watch where you're stepping.

Some years ago, I almost stepped on a rattlesnake that didn't even bother to rattle. It lay on the path I was hiking, all curled up and looking like the ground. It was a path surrounded by steep hills, and I always assumed it fell down somewhere and was dazed. Selection pressure didn't occur to me

Ooooh, this looks nice. I’ll need to see if that’s a good use case for the orangePi that I’ve had lying around because it was slightly too bad to run the LLMs that I wanted to play with at the time.

Once us unwashed masses can afford to buy machines again.

If I wanted to read your corporate talk, I’d follow you on LinkedIn.

Thanks to @nicoleeavalon.bsky.social for leading the charge. Looking forward to another round of MIBiG annotathons

Ah, my bad, I misunderstood.

I know nothing about the human side of this, but MSG is frequently produced from fermentation. My guess would be that the carbon source for those fermentations is corn based. Wouldn’t that cause similar problems to what you had with vitamin C?

Yeah, the reason to have a 3d printer at home is so that you can iterate on new designs faster. Many of the things I print are replacement parts that I’m unable to buy. It’s hard to get these right on the first try. If I ever needed something I designed and tested 50 times, I’d outsource.

I am truly grateful.

That’s my reading of it as well

Marnix Medema appointed chair of Bioinformatics at WUR Marnix Medema has been appointed Chair of the Bioinformatics Group at Wageningen University & Research as of 1 February. He aims to further strengthen bioinformatics as a connecting discipline within ...

I am delighted and feel honored to be appointed as chair of Bioinformatics at @w-u-r.bsky.social .
I look forward to working with the team and with our collaborators worldwide on keeping bioinformatics science and education flourishing at WUR and beyond.

www.wur.nl/en/news/marn...

I mean the “can only copy, not innovate”

The last conference I was at in China convinced me that this hasn’t been true in many years

Had the exact same thought process

Oh wow. Overleaf is now pushing an AI assistant on their platform as well. It just gave me a "grammar/style suggestion" that changed the order of magnitude of a number. 1024 is not 10,024, thank you very much.