Nick Doiron
@mapmeld.bsky.social
maps, travel, i18n, ML
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Nick Doiron
@mapmeld.bsky.social
· Nov 16
Plant-Based LLMs
mapmeld.com
Started setting up a table of "Plant-Based LLMs", meaning they're trained in part on plant genomes or proteomes mapmeld.com/plant-based-llms/
From Johns Hopkins researchers: "Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners"
Nathan Breslow, Aayush Mishra, Mahler Revsine, Michael C. Schatz, Anqi Liu, Daniel Khashabi: Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners https://arxiv.org/abs/2511.12797 https://arxiv.org/pdf/2511.12797 https://arxiv.org/html/2511.12797
November 23, 2025 at 1:50 PM
From Johns Hopkins researchers: "Genomic Next-Token Predictors are In-Context Learners"
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Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
New Chicago Review of Architecture wants younger voices weighing in on the city’s built environment
An offshoot of the New York Review of Architecture, the magazine will feature “erudite, humorous and hyperlocal writing.”
www.chicagotribune.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:15 PM
Real dream-team situation going on over here. @katewagner.wehwalt.net / @anjulierao.bsky.social / @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social www.chicagotribune.com/2025/11/12/c...
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🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
🚨Calling all education+social science researchers! 🚨
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
For the second time ever, Common App is hosting an open Call for Research Proposals to solicit innovative and rigorous research projects using our expansive (& still mostly untapped) data warehouse!
www.commonapp.org/files/DAR/Co...
Why New Mexico released a hundred African oryx into the desert. What could go wrong? youtu.be/cZEG22uvW9Q
The dream to fill the desert with imported animals
YouTube video by LeafHack
youtu.be
November 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Why New Mexico released a hundred African oryx into the desert. What could go wrong? youtu.be/cZEG22uvW9Q
Reposted by Nick Doiron
BKC is hiring a new set of fellows! cyber.harvard.edu/page/open-ca...
Open Call for Fellowship Applications, 2026 and 2026-2027
Harvard’s Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society welcomes applications for its 2026 and 2026-2027 fellowships.
cyber.harvard.edu
November 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
BKC is hiring a new set of fellows! cyber.harvard.edu/page/open-ca...
While researching Australia's camels looking for New Mexico oryx connections - this is what you call a freak accident generalist.academy/2021/02/16/m...
Shot by Australia’s first camel
The first camel in Australia shot its owner, the English explorer John Horrocks.
generalist.academy
November 2, 2025 at 12:10 PM
While researching Australia's camels looking for New Mexico oryx connections - this is what you call a freak accident generalist.academy/2021/02/16/m...
In 1956 the AP ran a story about Dr Frank Hibben, anthropology professor, shooting an oryx. As chairman of the New Mexico State Game and Fish Commission, he would release dozens of African oryx in White Sands. >5,000 now live wild in New Mexico and west Texas.
November 2, 2025 at 4:58 AM
In 1956 the AP ran a story about Dr Frank Hibben, anthropology professor, shooting an oryx. As chairman of the New Mexico State Game and Fish Commission, he would release dozens of African oryx in White Sands. >5,000 now live wild in New Mexico and west Texas.
After recovering some SSH keys, Fortran.io is back online 😀
FORTRAN.io
fortran.io
November 1, 2025 at 5:38 AM
After recovering some SSH keys, Fortran.io is back online 😀
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🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
October 29, 2025 at 10:44 PM
🧵Thread of cafes, restaurants, bars, bagel joints, etc offering free meals to SNAP recipients, for those who might need it, & so those who don't can give 'em their business.
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
If you know of such offers in your area & don't see them here, please tell us in @'s.
Here's one! toastedseattle.com
I'm making a video on Missouri v. Illinois (1901 and 1906) when they complained about Chicago reversing the river. This was only ~20 years after typhus bacteria was identified. Both sides hired experts and the scientific community followed the case "with intense interest".
October 25, 2025 at 9:42 PM
I'm making a video on Missouri v. Illinois (1901 and 1906) when they complained about Chicago reversing the river. This was only ~20 years after typhus bacteria was identified. Both sides hired experts and the scientific community followed the case "with intense interest".
Reposted by Nick Doiron
End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon.
🌐 evedesign.bio
🌐 evedesign.bio
October 22, 2025 at 2:30 PM
End-to-end protein design in the browser through evedesign. Generate and interactively explore designs in 2D/3D and export them as codon-optimized DNA. The underlying open source framework (released soon) is build to easily add new methods, more on that soon.
🌐 evedesign.bio
🌐 evedesign.bio
My neighborhood is mostly older people. This is what I see at the bottom of every NBC News article
October 18, 2025 at 12:05 PM
My neighborhood is mostly older people. This is what I see at the bottom of every NBC News article
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I just updated our cryptic lineage dashboard if anyone is interested.
Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring.
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dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...
Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring.
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dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...
SARS-CoV-2 Cryptic Lineage Visualizations
dholab.github.io
October 3, 2025 at 9:51 PM
I just updated our cryptic lineage dashboard if anyone is interested.
Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring.
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dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...
Viewer warning: this site contains a ton of actual data that really long persistent COVID infections are still occurring.
1/
dholab.github.io/public_viz/0...
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The correct decision from the Nobel committee. If they had even muttered the words "quantum computing" the number of start-up founders posting about their quantum crypto coin NFTs would break LinkedIn.
Interesting bit of sociology: They are really studiously avoiding any mention of quantum computing. First and only mention came in the last few words of the presentation by Johansson.
October 7, 2025 at 10:23 AM
The correct decision from the Nobel committee. If they had even muttered the words "quantum computing" the number of start-up founders posting about their quantum crypto coin NFTs would break LinkedIn.
I'm aligning a 1967 map of West Berlin with Google Earth and this exclave (Wüste Mark) is still a field
A guy wrote about it in 2021 lethargic-man.livejournal.com/559406.html
A guy wrote about it in 2021 lethargic-man.livejournal.com/559406.html
October 2, 2025 at 4:59 PM
I'm aligning a 1967 map of West Berlin with Google Earth and this exclave (Wüste Mark) is still a field
A guy wrote about it in 2021 lethargic-man.livejournal.com/559406.html
A guy wrote about it in 2021 lethargic-man.livejournal.com/559406.html
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A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
September 29, 2025 at 8:18 PM
A lot of people think that every international student admitted means one fewer spot for domestic students, when the opposite is more likely true - the tuition revenue international students bring allows public universities to provide substantial discounts to domestic students, improving access.
"All About Shanghai and Environs", 1934
🤔 a lot like how people talk about Shenzhen in the 2000s
🤔 a lot like how people talk about Shenzhen in the 2000s
September 30, 2025 at 1:01 PM
"All About Shanghai and Environs", 1934
🤔 a lot like how people talk about Shenzhen in the 2000s
🤔 a lot like how people talk about Shenzhen in the 2000s
Reposted by Nick Doiron
I was going to post a rant about the perils of quantum computing hype, following the claim by #HSBC & #IBM that they have improved bond market predictions using a QC, but instead I will just link to Scott Aaronson's blog which says it all scottaaronson.blog?p=9170 🧪⚛️ cc @bullshitquantum.bsky.social
HSBC unleashes yet another “qombie”: a zombie claim of quantum advantage that isn’t
Today, I got email after email asking me to comment on a new paper from HSBC—yes, the bank—together with IBM. The paper claims to use a quantum computer to get a 34% advantage in predic…
scottaaronson.blog
September 26, 2025 at 11:35 AM
I was going to post a rant about the perils of quantum computing hype, following the claim by #HSBC & #IBM that they have improved bond market predictions using a QC, but instead I will just link to Scott Aaronson's blog which says it all scottaaronson.blog?p=9170 🧪⚛️ cc @bullshitquantum.bsky.social
TomatoTomato represents two 🍅 genomes as a single sequence, finetuning gLM2. Hoping to evolve this into a pangenome model. #plantgene
hf.co/monsoon-nlp/tomatotomato-gLM2-150M-v0.1
hf.co/monsoon-nlp/tomatotomato-gLM2-150M-v0.1
monsoon-nlp/tomatotomato-gLM2-150M-v0.1 · Hugging Face
We’re on a journey to advance and democratize artificial intelligence through open source and open science.
hf.co
September 26, 2025 at 8:51 PM
TomatoTomato represents two 🍅 genomes as a single sequence, finetuning gLM2. Hoping to evolve this into a pangenome model. #plantgene
hf.co/monsoon-nlp/tomatotomato-gLM2-150M-v0.1
hf.co/monsoon-nlp/tomatotomato-gLM2-150M-v0.1
Lime Scooter got tagged? #micromobility
September 24, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Lime Scooter got tagged? #micromobility
Fixes to Mamba2 docs and a few related model types' error messages: github.com/huggingface/...
September 22, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Fixes to Mamba2 docs and a few related model types' error messages: github.com/huggingface/...
Be on the lookout for scams through GitHub Issues and copycats in coming weeks.
In Gmail, do a search like this and click 'Create FIlter'.
In Gmail, do a search like this and click 'Create FIlter'.
September 21, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Be on the lookout for scams through GitHub Issues and copycats in coming weeks.
In Gmail, do a search like this and click 'Create FIlter'.
In Gmail, do a search like this and click 'Create FIlter'.
I've added a paper on deploying Evo2 and the MoBiPlant Q&A dataset. I do want to keep this going.
Started setting up a table of "Plant-Based LLMs", meaning they're trained in part on plant genomes or proteomes mapmeld.com/plant-based-llms/
Plant-Based LLMs
mapmeld.com
September 15, 2025 at 9:30 PM
I've added a paper on deploying Evo2 and the MoBiPlant Q&A dataset. I do want to keep this going.
Visited the Gregor Mendel Museum on my way across Czechia 🫛🧬. Among microscope, papers, also appreciated a visual of pea traits linked to their chromosomes 👍.
One 👎 for continuing typical set of tongue roll, earlobes in traits
One 👎 for continuing typical set of tongue roll, earlobes in traits
September 11, 2025 at 10:42 AM
Visited the Gregor Mendel Museum on my way across Czechia 🫛🧬. Among microscope, papers, also appreciated a visual of pea traits linked to their chromosomes 👍.
One 👎 for continuing typical set of tongue roll, earlobes in traits
One 👎 for continuing typical set of tongue roll, earlobes in traits