Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
京都で人工生命の研究してます。Kyoto. ALife researcher https://lanasina.github.io/
Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
Artificial Life, Astrobiology, Visual Illusions; views my own. Research @ Sony CSL, National Institute for Basic Biology.
talking dog insta @iikocookie
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Lana Sinapayen
@sinalana.bsky.social
· Feb 20
“Good science ends when you become more attached to your solution
than to the problem.”
Me - 2018
than to the problem.”
Me - 2018
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I wrote a simple guide for getting started with Neo4j Graph Database exploration. We explore a Knowledge Graph of 30 years of Artificial Life research references! Please read and learn along with me! This is useful in Data Science and AI Engineering.🧪
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
Day 52 of #100daysofnetworks
Cypher Queries: Getting Started with Neo4j Queries
100daysofnetworks.substack.com
November 9, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I wrote a simple guide for getting started with Neo4j Graph Database exploration. We explore a Knowledge Graph of 30 years of Artificial Life research references! Please read and learn along with me! This is useful in Data Science and AI Engineering.🧪
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
100daysofnetworks.substack.com/p/day-52-of-...
Not surprising to anyone except 2000s US movies writers
We admire grit and perseverance, but surprising research suggests that giving up on ambitions in the right way can actually improve our physical and mental health
Why giving up on goals is good for you, and how to know which to ditch
www.newscientist.com
November 10, 2025 at 10:26 PM
Not surprising to anyone except 2000s US movies writers
Avi Loeb is what happens when the boy who cried wolf has the attention of an infinite number of people instead of an exasperated village
Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Avi Loeb is what happens when the boy who cried wolf has the attention of an infinite number of people instead of an exasperated village
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Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
Loeb’s 3I/ATLAS “Anomalies” Explained
Avi Loeb continues to claim that 3I/ATLAS has many anomalous behaviors that lead to the conclusion that it “might” be an alien spacecraft. He carefully hedges the probability that it is a spacecraft ...
sites.psu.edu
November 10, 2025 at 9:49 PM
Great piece by astronomer and SETI leader Jason Wright on the endless, exhausting claims about 3I/Atlas by Avi Loeb.
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
"zero planetary scientists give Avi’s claims any credence... because he’s demonstrably wrong"
sites.psu.edu/astrowright/...
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My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 AM
My pup doesn't like videos. But he's a curious boy and sometimes I can get him interested for a few seconds. Do you have TV-watching dogs? What do they like?
Drop your recommendations below:
Drop your recommendations below:
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The science literature used to be more fun
November 8, 2025 at 3:06 PM
The science literature used to be more fun
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pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
A Sharon Begley byline, almost 5 years after her death.
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
Upon hearing the news James Watson had died, a STAT reporter said in our Slack, "I wish I could read what Sharon would have written."
Incredible news: Sharon in fact did pre-write a Watson obit. And it is masterful and excoriating.
🧪🧬🧫
James Watson, dead at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers
James Watson, the co-discoverer of the structure of DNA who died Thursday at 97, was a scientific legend and a pariah among his peers.
www.statnews.com
November 9, 2025 at 12:55 AM
pre-writing a devastating obituary for your enemy is god-tier hating of a kind you don’t often see anymore. renaissance haterism. beautiful stuff.
I taught an octopus piano (It took 6 months)
YouTube video by Mattias Krantz
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 9:08 AM
I keep trying to get Cookie, my talking dog, back on his moderately expensive kibble diet; he keeps telling me he prefers the expensive one. The first time he told me he wanted the "small dog food"; the expensive kibble has smaller bits.
November 8, 2025 at 12:16 PM
I keep trying to get Cookie, my talking dog, back on his moderately expensive kibble diet; he keeps telling me he prefers the expensive one. The first time he told me he wanted the "small dog food"; the expensive kibble has smaller bits.
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Trying to go through the world without consuming AI slop is like going through a labyrinth and at every turn walking in dog poop. The slop is coming at you from every angle, peddled by everyone from big people to your 70 yo neighbor. And it will never go away.
November 8, 2025 at 5:19 AM
Trying to go through the world without consuming AI slop is like going through a labyrinth and at every turn walking in dog poop. The slop is coming at you from every angle, peddled by everyone from big people to your 70 yo neighbor. And it will never go away.
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I saw him give a talk at Harvard. He opened by saying he'd taught there so he could marry a rich younger woman, and it had worked.
Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust.
The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.
Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust.
The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.
November 7, 2025 at 8:00 PM
I saw him give a talk at Harvard. He opened by saying he'd taught there so he could marry a rich younger woman, and it had worked.
Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust.
The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.
Then he complained that Salvador Luria really should have gotten over the Holocaust.
The main thrust of his talk was explaining that Rosalind Franklin was a b*tch.
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Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
DNA scientist James Watson has a remarkably long history of sexist, racist public comments
“People say it would be terrible if we made all girls pretty,” he said in 2003. “I think it would be great.”
www.vox.com
November 7, 2025 at 7:45 PM
Hey folks, as news of Watson's demise spreads, please don't set aside his weighty legacy of misogyny and racism. He was truly among the worst of us. www.vox.com/2019/1/15/18...
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ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
November 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
ICYMI: Microsoft’s charge “implies a more than $12 billion quarterly loss at OpenAI, said Firoz Valliji, an analyst at Bernstein.”
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
That “would mark one of the largest single-quarter losses for a tech company in history.”
@jessefelder.bsky.social $MSFT
www.wsj.com/livecoverage...
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There are no words for how evil this is
November 7, 2025 at 1:36 AM
There are no words for how evil this is
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So just race science but we run 50,000 GPUs to do it for us?
November 6, 2025 at 7:13 PM
So just race science but we run 50,000 GPUs to do it for us?
People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better?
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
Should facial analysis help determine whom companies hire?
A new paper suggests a photo can tell a recruiter much about an applicant’s personality
econ.st
November 6, 2025 at 11:36 PM
People are desperately drawn to phrenology. You could set your clock by the regularity at which those stupid papers come out and are debunked. Can't people FINALLY know better?
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
No, the urge to judge people by characteristics they can't control is too strong...
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Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides.
Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
November 6, 2025 at 5:00 AM
Bacteria can sense when a virus starts shredding their genome — by detecting methylated mononucleotides.
Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
Here’s the story of how we discovered the Metis defense system 👇
www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
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A nopert!!!
I love that math questions, like that still exist! That some problems can still be described in simple words, that they can still be unsolved, then solved, and with solutions so unexpected and unintuitive :)
I love that math questions, like that still exist! That some problems can still be described in simple words, that they can still be unsolved, then solved, and with solutions so unexpected and unintuitive :)
November 6, 2025 at 11:52 AM
A nopert!!!
I love that math questions, like that still exist! That some problems can still be described in simple words, that they can still be unsolved, then solved, and with solutions so unexpected and unintuitive :)
I love that math questions, like that still exist! That some problems can still be described in simple words, that they can still be unsolved, then solved, and with solutions so unexpected and unintuitive :)
Blurring and sharpening an image is equivalent to doing reaction diffusion!
youtu.be/7oCtDGOSgG8?...
youtu.be/7oCtDGOSgG8?...
What Happens if You Blur and Sharpen an Image 1000 Times?
YouTube video by Patrick Gillespie
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 11:46 AM
Blurring and sharpening an image is equivalent to doing reaction diffusion!
youtu.be/7oCtDGOSgG8?...
youtu.be/7oCtDGOSgG8?...
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If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
November 5, 2025 at 7:10 AM
If you aren't seeing skeets from some of your fave people, they might have been labeled "Rude" by bsky mods. Idk what they are thinking, I don't need a mommy to tell me who to be buddies with. Anyway, go into Settings > moderation > bluesky moderation (advanced) and turn Rude off.
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“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
GESTA’s Summary of Goddard Building Closures Status
NASA Goddard Space Flight Center is the largest group of scientists, technicians and engineers in the US who develop Earth and space science flight missions. Below is GESTA's understanding of the...
www.gesta-goddard.org
November 6, 2025 at 2:50 AM
“Tens or hundreds of millions of dollars of taxpayer-funded NASA property and laboratories are at risk of either being discarded, mishandled, or out-of-commission for significant time periods.” 🔭🧪
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...
www.gesta-goddard.org/blog/gestas-...