Mastodon: [email protected]. Microscopy and DS/ML. Chief Technology Officer @ArrePath. Tweets are my personal opinion. Pronouns: he/him/his.
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Kurt Thorn retweeted
Very good post about the economics of and investor dynamics in drug discovery/biotech/techbio startups, where the hard problems are, and the fundamental challenges in assessing outcomes and quality.
With the start of my first batch as a visiting partner at @ycombinator, this felt like a good time to write my founder story about our journey at @reverielabs. It's a bit of a long one.
ankitg.me/blog/2025/01/06/un…
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And yes, school board elections matter!
Vote for parents’ #1: SUPRYIA RAY @RayforBOE, and rising education leaders like @jaimenina and @ParagGuptaSF
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Thermal expansion -> a typical problem in time-lapse microscopy at high resolution. Here I measure the axial shift of the focal plane of a Nikon 40x0.95 air objective at ~1.6um/K, or about ~1.5x the depth of field per degree C:
github.com/amsikking/Nikon_4…
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I believe James Earl Jones was the last surviving cast member from DR. STRANGELOVE (his first movie). What a career. RIP.
Kurt Thorn retweeted
Are you new to Cursor and looking for some tutorial videos?
Here is a list of the good ones.
First place to start for sure is @hive_echo list of Cursor videos:
youtube.com/@echohive/search…
More below
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He failed at the two problems, cache invalidation and naming things.
my friend works in fashion. i set her up with one of my tech homies. this is how it went.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This is engagement farming, this account is know for engagement farming.
Example:
This post:
x.com/roshanpateI/st…
Uses an image from this site:
moldguy.ca/improving-indo…
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My blue green boundary is at hue 174
Do we all see the same colours? Over the weekend, I made a little app to test this. ismy.blue/ 1/
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Come to San Francisco and hang with us!
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Kurt Thorn retweeted
I gave the “map of every European City” by itchy feet to Claude and asked it to do one for the US. Given its drawing skills, this was pretty solid, even a couple funny bits. (yes, of course similar things exist, this didn’t seem to be pulling from them)
Kurt Thorn retweeted
Right now the advantages from AI accrue to workers, not firms. As a result, they can be hard to notice (especially if you don't try to seriously use AI yourself, which is illuminating)
These two accounts by coders are instructive:
nicholas.carlini.com/writing…
erikschluntz.com/software/20…
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ePhective (San Francisco) is a newly founded #phagetherapy company started by @joeBondyDenomy (@UCSF) & Zemer Gitai (@Princeton). They are currently looking for:
2 #Phage Scientists to lead projects in phage discovery, characterization, & engineering
It’s funny how moving from academia to industry changes your perspective. Looking for my second industry job I spent a lot of time asking questions about business strategy, to find a company that I thought would be successful. That never would have occurred to me in academia.
Agreed. There’s a reason VCs prefer an A team with a B idea over a B team with an A idea. Execution matters more than you think.
Kurt Thorn retweeted
Second this. Pharma prioritizes action and decision-making. Scientific excellence is important, but execution is equally important. The work is iterative. Turn the crank, fail fast, learn from the failure, improve design, repeat. You can be scientifically excellent to a fault.
