Professor of Genetic Medicine at the University of Chicago. Decoding the human microbiome. http://BlekhmanLab.org
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Five Things (May 23, 2026): AI in life sciences. doi.org/10.59350/810...
Visited the grand canyon last year and a rainbow appeared *inside* the canyon
What you see in the Sun, is the Chicago skyline from the Indiana Dunes beach, across Lake Michigan.
You can see it from 50 miles of distance due to a form of superior mirage, because the skyline is seen above where it's actually located.
[📷 wesskywalker]
Reminder: giving an AI the prompt "You are a world expert in X" doesn't make it a world expert.
It doesn't give the model additional knowledge or improve its reasoning.
All it does is change the *style* of the output, so it sounds like an expert, even when it's wrong.
Wabash Avenue bridge, Chicago, today
Wild to think that no one has invented a way to make milk safe to drink yet. A cheap, scalable process that kills all the pathogens while keeping all the flavor and nutrients. Tragic
Today in Chicago
Chicago riverwalk, memorial day weekend
"This is why LLM AI will not solve cancer or climate change. Those problems require long time horizons, willingness to fail publicly, cooperations across competitors, and subordination of short-term returns to outcomes that may take decades to materialize."
www.tomorrowsmess.com/p/the-fox-an...
me checking eRA Commons:
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Jassi Pannu on AI and biosecurity, RAND/Helena AIxBio biosecurity mitigations, Blekhman on genomics AI, Nature’s AI scientists week, AI in peer review.
