YouTube custom AI feed just killing it with its precision and adherence to the prompt.
Claus Wilke
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Computational biologist, data scientist, occasional blogger | https://blog.genesmindsmachines.com/ | https://clauswilke.com/ | Opinions are my own and do not represent UT Austin.
Russian "human safari" in Kherson continues. Police have released footage showing Russians using a drone to hunt a civilian in the city. The victim is a 52-year-old market vendor from the Mykolaiv region, who suffered a blast injury, shrapnel wounds, and a concussion.
One of my pet peeves: People are obsessed with seeing/plotting error bars while also being confused about what they should represent. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/the-error-...
The error bar cargo cult
You don't need to understand error bars. You just need to draw them.
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A 16-year old guitarist and singer from Thailand is blowing up on the internet. You have to check her out. She is a once-in-a-lifetime generational talent like Jimi Hendrix or Freddie Mercury. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/nene-royal...
Nene Royal—A generational talent
The kids in Thailand are alright.
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In the last 2010s, the number of faculty members making more than the salary cap went up dramatically. I know, because I was department chair at the time and it caused all sorts of administrative headaches. Who pays the difference? From what sources? etc.
Drug Monkey@drugmonkey.bsky.social · last wk.The academic culture of compensation drugmonkey.wordpress.com/2026/07/28/t...
Responding to common pushback I receive when I say you should present your research or other technical work by telling a story. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-the-wor...
If the work is good why does it need a story?
I thought we do science here, not fiction or romance
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Nothing burns quite like a Wildberries distribution hub.
Kate from Kharkiv@kateinkharkiv.bsky.social · 2w agoKrasnodar in russia looks like Mordor right now! 🔥😁
This "scalable" template for oral examination requires 20 minutes per student per exam, or 67 total hours for a class of 200 students. It would appear the authors and I have a different understanding of what "scalable" means. www.insidehighered.com/opinion/care...
A Practical, Scalable Template for Oral Exams (opinion)
Yes, it can be done, even in classes with dozens of students.
insidehighered.com
Loomer may be able to reach some people that previously have only heard Russian propaganda. I'll take it.
The Ukrainian Review@theukrainianreview.bsky.social · 2w ago🇺🇸🇺🇦 During a visit to Kyiv, Laura Loomer said that Russia is deliberately attacking civilian infrastructure and American businesses in Ukraine, including the country’s oldest McDonald’s restaurant.
Perfect. And similar to advice I received very early in my career: no one cares about your research; it's up to you to make them care. Emotions are a big part of that. Not manipulation but making it real for the audience.
Claus Wilke@clauswilke.com · 2w agoResponding to common pushback I receive when I say you should present your research or other technical work by telling a story. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-the-wor...
Responding to common pushback I receive when I say you should present your research or other technical work by telling a story. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/if-the-wor...
If the work is good why does it need a story?
I thought we do science here, not fiction or romance
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
Another day, another prestige-paper op-ed worried about hypothetical “AI” drones (whatever that means) that fails to really mention or meaningfully engage with how 100% human drone pilots are using small cheap drones to target civilians *right now*:
Opinion | A.I. Drones Are Coming. We Are Not Ready.
World leaders are marching us toward an uncertain era of new warfare — fast.
nytimes.com
EVs are not automatic. They are single-gear direct drive. There's a difference.
John Scalzi@scalzi.com · 3w agoMy MINI is a manual. It's already gotten to the point I can't have it valet parked because none of those kids know what to do with it. My next car will almost certainly be an automatic, especially as I intend it to be electric.
I contacted my NIH PO about the new rules requiring reporting foreign co-authorships on papers that acknowledge NIH support. Here's a summary of what I heard back: 1) NIH POs are confused about this too & fear a massive workload as a consequence 2) PIs should report co-authorships in their RPPR /t
Russians have given up on using their S400 missiles for air defense. Now they're just shooting them into apartment buildings for maximum civilian casualties.
The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 3w ago⚡️Russia hits Kyiv with ballistic missiles as Ukraine reels from latest political shock. Explosions rocked Kyiv shortly before 1 a.m. local time, according to Kyiv Independent journalists on the ground. Officials reported that Russia was attacking the city with ballistic missiles.
Zero-shot predictions of mutational effects seem to work well in benchmarks but frequently fail in targeted protein engineering campaigns. Why is that? blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/how-useful...
How useful are zero-shot predictions of mutational effects?
Zero-shot predictions are great, except for when it matters
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A brief tutorial on how to tell a story. There's much more to be said, so I'll probably have to write more posts on this topic in the future. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/tell-a-sto...
“Tell a story” is not helpful advice
If people knew how to tell a story they wouldn't need the advice in the first place
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A man who publicly was doing something which, when done wrong, can cause graft-vs-host disease, an autoimmune disease which can attack, among other things, your GI tract, now has an autoimmune disease which is attacking his GI tract. What a coincidence.
Millionaire biohacker reveals he has incurable disease amid mission to ‘defeat death’
‘My stomach is eating itself,’ the tech entrepreneur announced on social media
the-independent.com
Mary Gillis@marygillis.bsky.social · 3y agoBlood transfusions from close relatives can cause graft vs host disease. Close relatives are literally the last people in the world rich weirdos should be roping into their creepy vampire hobby.
Given the outrage this image has caused, we can see that people do, in fact, interpret bar plots with truncated axes correctly, as research has shown for a long time. 😇 @steveharoz.com
turgut keskintürk@tkeskinturk.bsky.social · last mo.data visualization is my passion.
A brief tutorial on how to tell a story. There's much more to be said, so I'll probably have to write more posts on this topic in the future. blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/tell-a-sto...
“Tell a story” is not helpful advice
If people knew how to tell a story they wouldn't need the advice in the first place
blog.genesmindsmachines.com
Oil refinery bingo. The only refineries that haven't been taken out yet are either in the far East or very small.
Kostiantyn Hoholenko@hoholenko.bsky.social · last mo.ранкове оновлення 06.07.2026
This is the picture we've all been waiting for. The last major refinery in Russia that hadn't been hit yet. Russia is no longer able to defend even the most strategically important targets.
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · last mo.Omsk… WOW 😮
"Word is built for high schoolers to write book reports." 😂 Couldn't agree more. What's particularly shocking is Word has not made meaningful progress in the last 20 years. Most of the things that didn't work well back then still don't work.
Superworms can also eat plastic. 🤯
PLOS One@plosone.org · last mo.Superworms, a mealworm-like form of beetle larva commonly used as pet food, could be the next big innovation in museum specimen prep. In a new PLOS One study, Rastekar and colleagues investigate the utility of superworm beetle larvae for cleaning skeletons. Watch the full video: plos.io/4y3XLA4
Perfect application of Gaussian Splatting. This technology is barely three years old. Ukraine is working with state-of-the-art machine learning technology. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaussia...
MAKS 26 👀🇺🇦@maks23.bsky.social · last mo.🇺🇦😼
