mastodon 4.7.3Trying to make sense out of sequence for ~2.5 x 10^-1 centuries 🧬
Currently hunting for causal variants in microbial genomes 🦠
Secretly has strong programming language preferences 🤖
Statistics is sexy 😮
The Work of Art in the Age of Artificial Reproduction
Reproduction Isn’t Creativity, and AI Isn’t Art:
https://www.lukewsavage.com/p/the-work-of-art-in-the-age-of-artificial
"most effusive boosters of AI culture fundamentally mistake reproduction for creation and incorrectly see realism as synonymous with artistic expression."
RE: https://mathstodon.xyz/@tao/116977934921819775
Tao is keeping a "live" view of his current thinking on #AI by using AI to read his #Mastodon posts, videos, etc. I've been keeping tabs on his use of AI models for math, and the live view keeps things interesting and updated. Also, Mastodon for the win!
I particularly like his "AI diet" section: https://teorth.github.io/tao-web/ai-views.html. I'm particularly concerned about "machine bypass" of human processes that bring learning, joy, resilience, and insight.
Curious what Julia coders think of the 1.0 Pluto release. I've tried it in the past and compared it against vscode and #Positron. The long and short of it was that each felt incomplete in one way or another. Hoping to see Positron and Pluto keep maturing for Julia, though it seems that path is on hold for Positron at the moment.
https://discourse.julialang.org/t/pluto-1-0-release/137296?u=jbytecode
Reflecting on this danger, Leo laments that modern culture tends to view every limitation “primarily as a defect to be corrected, rather than a reality through which our humanity matures and opens itself to relationship. And yet we must remember that humanity flourishes not despite limitations, but often through them.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/05/pope-leo-ai-encyclical-magnifica-humanitas/687294/
#AI #Jobs
Interesting experiment going on in China right now.
https://archive.is/yndwV
“Companies cannot use AI upgrading as an excuse for backdoor layoffs and unfair pay cuts.”
RE: https://mastodon.social/@eyayaw/116976797566892544
Going to check out ir: https://r-lib.github.io/ir/reference.html
Looks like it's inspired by uv run --script?
Wow, I've never seen this from #bioRxiv before!
