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...
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.
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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.
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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
Chicago in the summer is unbeatable
Today in Chicago
Chicago riverwalk, memorial day weekend
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.