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Important point about AI and math in this excellent @matteowong.bsky.social interview with Terrance Tao
www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
"I have no idea how to build an empathic AI. I am quite confident though that as long as AI doesn’t feel empathy it won’t be truly aligned, no matter how sophisticated the RLHF training is that it’s subjected to. Interesting times ahead." blog.genesmindsmachines.com/p/sociopathi...
Anthropic Research: "We found that using AI assistance led to a statistically significant decrease in mastery." www.anthropic.com/research/AI-...
Please Switch to Python. Or R. Or Anything. Just Not Stata, SAS, SPSS, or MATLAB.
presentofcoding.substack.com/p/please-swi...
"About a third of players in the tournament (AfCon 2025) were born to African immigrant families outside Africa. That means the starkest divides on display aren’t between different African countries, but between African-raised players and European ones."
www.ft.com/content/9d47...
AfroBiotech Roundup: Stay up to date on the latest biotech research focused on Africa and its diaspora.
afrobiotech.substack.com
The power of silence. newsletter.consultingintel.com/p/why-smart-...
How the People Closest to Us Quietly Shape Who We Become
debliu.substack.com/p/in-sync-th...
Kenyan artist Thandiwe Muriu’s 'Camo series', photographic portraits cloaking models in patterned fabric #WomensArt
Oral exams to counter the rise of AI-assisted cheating
www.nytimes.com/2025/08/26/o...
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The appearance of large language models caused a drastic shift in the vocabulary of academic writing, according to an analysis in #ScienceAdvances of more than 15 million biomedical abstracts published from 2010 to 2024.
Learn more:
#dataviz animation thread
Great use of #rstats and the rdbnomics package
What is Vibe Coding and how can it be used to advance biomedical research? @tatonetti.bsky.social & I explain in this editorial biodatamining.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.... #bioinformatics #datascience #coding #vibecoding
Illustrated use of Fish (singular animal), Fish (multiple individuals of the same type of fish) and fishes (multiple kinds or species of fish).
🧪 PSA regarding fish and fishes.
open.substack.com/pub/fishhist...
"In Sub-Saharan Africa, less than a third of mobile phones connect to the internet at all."
techsafari.beehiiv.com/p/the-towers...
Great take on modern CS Education
www.theatlantic.com/technology/a...
Love this! Spell out your name using NASA satellite images.
landsat.gsfc.nasa.gov/apps/YourNam...
On the responsible (and ethical) use of LLMs in academia datavizsp25.classes.andrewheiss.com/resource/ai-...
Vibe coding, hallucinated package names, and malware 🤯
www.theregister.com/AMP/2025/04/...
Felgona Oyuga on life, love, and everything in-between
www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-yy...
The African Cancer Atlas (TACA)
www.businesswire.com/news/home/20...
