Tom Murphy

This is probably the best essay I’ve read on the subject of mathematics in biology. (Gunawardena 2014)

Why I expect writing, thinking, and art to get worse following Gen AI, not better

In short:

I think this is one of the best examples illustrating how LLM Al is a purely statistical model and is not doing any kind of actual "thinking" or "logic" and cannot be trusted for tasks that require even a modicum of reasoning, a short 🧵:

A little more on the ongoing attempts of the tech folks to reduce biology to its constitutive components. While I’ve said this attempt at reduction may be impossible, it’s actually the converse — reconstituting the whole from the parts — where the problem lies. More follows👇🏽 1/

I just attended a talk on the mathematics of diffusion image generation models and it blew me away. Takeaways: 1. The math is very “simple” 2. In fact, it’s so simple that this method *shouldn’t really work* 3. The fact it does says something very fundamental about the universe

@ella4756 Wait until you hear about salt AND peppering ur tomatoes

I can’t believe it’s been 24 years and I’ve only started salting my tomatoes now

@lizziehill35 @AlzResearchUK Very inspiring, well done Lizzie!!!

Today I spoke at William Perkin High School about my academic journey so far. Such enthusiastic kids with such insightful questions. Huge thanks to @AlzResearchUK for awarding us with the Inspire Fund public engagement grant to allow events like this to happen!

@dbikard This is such a cool package, so far I've only tested it out on the included e.coli data. I'm wondering if there is an inbuilt function to export static images of the viewer for e.g. publications? If not, how would you recommend doing so?

If like me you like to analyse genomics data in Jupyter notebooks I have something for you: dbikard.github.io/genomenotebook/

@SiddleSci @pintofscience Think I will!

If you like drinking litres of beer at a time and listening to cool science, join us in May at London Bridge for @pintofscience 2023! #PINT23

@TomTrainerSci 👏👏👏

A rainy start to #SynBioFH23 today! Seems like im the only one representing neuro 🧠, and happy to!

Moving flat means I can no longer ignore the 20 month old kimchi jar. I don't think kitchen is high enough containment level to deal with this

@jaimicore @slavov_n @naturemethods Would you recommend his book statistics applied to bioinformatics? i can't find much information about it

@slavov_n @naturemethods Hi, JAcques (the author of that paper) was my PhD supervisor, he wrote many pages about that topic, but due to space constraints in the journal the content was reduced to 2 pages. Contact him to get all the analysis he did. He doesn't use twitter.

Should you use p values or confidence intervals? What are their advantages, disadvantages & equalities? I am enjoying reading a discussion of these questions in @naturemethods nature.com/articles/nmeth… Some of it up to the culture: nature.com/articles/nmeth…

Quote of the day from my arsenal-supporting pal: "cut me and I bleed red"

I gave an interview to BBC Breakfast this morning on Zahawi's statement/partial admission. That, and my detailed response, can be found here: taxpolicy.org.uk/2023/01/22/zah…

@ella4756 Jan blues?

feeling sad I need to watch emma chamberlain’s architectural digest home tour to feel something

@Channel4 2022: The View from Space. Can't recommend this enough!!! Beautiful, sad macroscopic fly through of the year

Best game I’ve seen in my life time #ArgentinaVsFrance #WorldCup

Annual login to LinkedIn. Very depressing. Most people from my school have already learnt every single programming language, graduated 10 degrees whilst being hated by the institution, and founded 23 FTSE500 companies. Jesus