scientist at UC Berkeley inventing advanced genomic technologies
lover of molecules, user of computers
https://scholar.google.com/citations?user=63ZRebIAAAAJ&hl=en
Jase Gehring
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met a grad student in Holger’s lab and asked him about his research. my jaw was on the floor about halfway through and he just kept piling on to the bonkers scope and challenge. This project is so insanely cool and ambitious.
i agree but there are different purposes at work. an academic talk is structured to lend legitimacy to the work and the researchers, to advance the field. an industry talk often has elements of advertising or entertainment that would be seen as illegitimate in academia, even if that sucks
Maybe the most fascinating part about all of this.
whether or not fear is a motivation, the primary motivation is to get rich
ok this is the best one i've seen yet
i think a lot about the future of biotech. one pillar of my thinking is that any generalized success (virtual cell, generative model, etc) will soon be replicated by the public sector and thus offers little moat.
current research environment has me really questioning that assumption
the ceiling is the floor
related: informal academic talks are a lot of fun, and often very productive
ah this is what Altman meant when he said there are "still things OpenAI wants to do as a private company" - squeeze Anthropic ahead of its IPO
this is what actually makes science hard
i see we're entering a tiered information system where AI companies declare their models to be uniquely enabling and then choose which customers are allowed access.
