We live in the decade of generative models and biology is no exception.

Genome language models can now generate functional bacteriophages!

Read more in my new sub-stack post where I explore the @arcinstitute.org latest pre-print.

Well. I'm not going to say I am surprised by these results. Come on people. We can do better than this.

www.nature.com/articles/s41...

#AI #Honesty

Often working at the intersection of AI and Biology, I have developed a love-hate relationship with AI.

In this essay, I share some thoughts on the modern AI ecosystem. It’s not all doom and gloom but there is room for improvement.

pcnmartin.substack.com/p/a-love-hat...

Does this plot look ugly? Yes it does.

Am I happy with because of what it represents? Yes I am.

Simulated Gene Pulse

I am not sure any of those questions would require a token greedy language bot to answer.

It was just a matter of time before we saw the rise of AI charlatans. Not sure it is worse than AI generated rage bait though...

After a month of developing with #Julia, it is becoming my favorite language! It's crazy how having strict type setting can catch most bugs. Yes, I know python has that as well. And Rust. And C/C++. But R doesn't...

New project coming out soon? Any guesses as to what this is?

Over the last year, I have started writing sci-fi short stories.

The Institute explores real science in a fictional setting.

Chapter 1 : pcnmartin.substack.com/p/reorganize...
Chapter 2 :
pcnmartin.substack.com/p/tipping-po...
Chapter 3 :
pcnmartin.substack.com/p/just-15-mi...

As acronyms go, this one tickles my brain in a weird way.

The number of papers on the " To Read" list is getting out of hand... I would go so far as to say it's too high.