Ian Holmes
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Ian Holmes
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Berkeley professor (Bioeng, Compbio). Visiting Scientist at Calico. JBrowse genome browser / Apollo annotation editor, ML for gene regulation / molecular evolution / synbio. Occasional music, games, jokes
Live view of the Hinge data center
November 11, 2025 at 3:24 AM
I mean if he’s now part of the “Reckoning with CSHL’s eugenics past” exhibit, then good for them
November 9, 2025 at 11:44 PM
Amazon too
November 9, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Wow
November 9, 2025 at 2:23 PM
The photo of Watson remained on the wall of the conference theater for several years, until his next round of attention-clawing bigotry finally knocked it loose
November 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
People gush about how great the CSHL meetings are. And I’ve seen some great talks there. But I’ve also never been at a conference more obsessed with celebrity, glamor, and the elevation of hero figures
November 8, 2025 at 11:26 PM
It’s not on topic for the OP but you reminded me I keep meaning to actually record this
November 8, 2025 at 8:57 PM
It's not surprising to me (but still sad) that of those three, the one who brought mostly ambition (and admittedly focus) to the table - as opposed to experimental or theoretical prowess - was the least inclined to share credit, and the most prone to spout lazy ill-considered bigotry
November 7, 2025 at 9:11 PM
In what turned out to be a fortunate development for Crick, Bessel functions don't give you cancer
November 7, 2025 at 9:08 PM
It is slightly gross seeing the fly graveyard so full of bodies, but better than swatting them off your food all the time
November 7, 2025 at 5:24 PM
…falsifiable experimental prediction seems dozy. 3/3
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
…to do this, but they messed up the algebra when porting over the tensor product from complex to real. Furthermore this sort of thing has been tried before, with Clifford algebra. It may be a worthy cleanup job but it hardly seems like a paradigm shift? And expecting it to produce any kind of… 2/
November 7, 2025 at 4:51 PM
If Danegeld didn’t work then what hope for UBI
November 6, 2025 at 3:36 PM