Professor of Algorithmic and Microbial Genomics at the University of Bath (UK). Pangenomes, drug resistance (esp TB), data structures for DNA search, plasmid evolution, global microbial surveillance. Open Data, reproducibility. https://zam-iqbal-lab.org/
Very sorry to hear of the death of Pepe Habichuela, a great figure of flamenco guitar. Here he is playing with the Bollywood Strings, about 25 years ago. I was addicted to this back then. youtu.be/e82ZQayd7_E?...
Pepe Habichuela & The Bollywood Strings [con Josemi Carmona] - Yerbagüena (Oriente)YouTube video by Nuevos Mediosyoutu.beThis thought expt (on how to find maths problems that openAI can solve) is interesting tjoresearchnotes.wordpress.com/2026/08/02/r... a) all of their proofs fit into one context window, b) scan open problems looking for addressable ones, 3) reported cost is only the compute cost for the successes
That gets my bugs into perspective
Stephen SchwartzToday in 1958 at Johnston Island in the North Pacific Ocean, the United States conducted Shot TEAK, using an Army Redstone rocket to loft a 3.8-Megaton W39 warhead about 48 miles above the Earth. A programming error caused the warhead to detonate directly overhead instead of six miles to the south.
what the hell "The Anthropic copyright case set the precedent — the US court ruled that by making a digital copy and destroying the physical in a one-for-one transfer, the process is deemed “transformative” and therefore protected by fair use.
Dr. Jeroen W.P. WijnendaeleNo longer content with pillaging intellectual work and dismembering our environment (already critically weakened), AI companies are now hellbent on destroying books galore including rare editions. Shut down these nefarious enterprises already.
This is bananas
Jeff GrohAvocados come in 2 varieties - A-types start each day female and switch to male midday. B-types do the reverse. In work just published from the last chapter of my PhD, we show this system evolved 40+million yrs ago and is regulated by alleles of 1 transcription factor www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...