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Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
I think this might be the first time in American history you’ve seen a Muslim candidate demonstrate a part of their prayer in an ad like this.
In response to attacks about his faith, Abdul doubles down on who he is.
Takes courage to do this.
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
it’s more important than ever to archive and annotate israeli war crimes & genocide funded by our tax dollars. to bear witness to the mass murder and ethnic cleansing of palestinians under a global watch
my wife and i are sponsoring free tickets for the first 50 attendees of each of the 12:35pm showings of NAZA starting tomorrow (Oct 16) and running through next Thursday (Oct 22) at the @IFCCenter in West Village
may we all learn how genocide occurs in broad daylight, in modern societies, live streamed on social media, with technologies we’re often the very creators of in the hope of never again letting this happen with our dollars, under our watch
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
BREAKING NEWS
The 2026 #NobelPrize in Physiology or Medicine has been awarded to Karl Deisseroth, Peter Hegemann and Georg Nagel “for their discoveries concerning light-gated ion channels and optogenetics.”
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
Would encourage companies making big announcements to release preprints so that the larger community can provide them real peer review so as to avoid silly claims printed in stone in overpriced glam journals.
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
As frontier models get nerfed for bio tasks, being able to run locally is increasingly important.
Run Qwen 3.8 Flash-Next at up to 400k context and peak single-stream output of 180.5 tok/s on an RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q.
This is now my daily workhorse. See below 👇
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
Anthropic's discovery of array-associated reverse transcriptases?
Turns out it was already done by a Danish scientist. He used Claude for administrative tasks, but not in an agentic manner for the discovery. He already filed a patent and gave talks on it
nytimes.com/2026/09/27/scien…
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
Artificial intelligence systems do not think, feel, want or understand. Avoid language that gives them human characteristics. This is called anthropomorphizing, when we ascribe human traits, emotions or behaviors to non-human things, such as animals or inanimate objects.
Instead, explain what a system does, how well it performs, who built it and who could be affected by it.
apnews.com/article/openai-sa…
Who is working on open source AI for life sciences?
How do models like Qwen3.8, GLM-5.3, DeepSeek v4, etc. perform on life science workflows?
Anthropic should hire wet lab biologists to LEAD their life sci efforts w/ computational biologists providing a critical support role, until they (the comp bios) are displaced by AI.
Wet lab data (and overzealous "safety" guardrails) are the bottleneck, not compute.
I'd love to hear @zhangf's thoughts on this work. The press release seems to swag jack his status but the quote itself is revealing, "genuinely intriguing and merits further investigation."
If I had a dollar for everything that was intriguing...
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
Asking Claude about this paper will put you in time out (demoted from Opus 5.5 to 5.0)
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
Maybe I'm missing something, but this seems like a giant nothing burger 🤷🏾♂️
Claude has discovered a previously unknown enzyme system hidden in the DNA of bacteriophages. Beside the enzyme’s gene sits a long array of repeating DNA—a structure that looks somewhat similar to CRISPR.
We don’t yet understand what this system does, but only a handful of known systems share its features, and all of them are able to cut, copy, and paste DNA. Historically, the discovery of such programmable systems has helped revolutionize medicine. CRISPR, for instance, is now the foundation of genetic medicines. But it will take much more work to learn what this system does, and whether it can be put to similar use.
Read more: anthropic.com/news/claude-di…
Investigating stability of a nucleic acid triggered a flag and demotion from Opus 5.5 to 5. There's very clearly a lack of bio-expertise at Anthropic / Claude and a preponderance of doomers.
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
Her name is HIND RAJAB💐🌷
🤞🏾🪶♾❤️
And She was more brave than every single one of you at ESPN
Kyrie Irving has offered to pay Houston Texans linebacker Azeez Al-Shaair's $11,941 fine for having the name of a Palestinian girl killed in Gaza written on his eye black during Sunday's game against the Buffalo Bills. spr.ly/6012BGpQce
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
The absolute cowardice of @edsheeran.
History will remember
Macklemore Speaks Out After Being Dropped From Ed Sheeran Tour, Says Singer Claimed That Saying 'Free Palestine' Was 'Hurtful to a Lot of People' variety.com/2026/music/news/…
11/10 racist Islamophobic divisive hateful trash
A group connected to Texas U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz is now getting involved in TV advertising in Michigan's U.S. Senate race, airing this AI-generated spot today in Detroit: youtu.be/Lrw_hLs4O_0?si=Q_XQ…
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
I picked up a carton of milk from the store this week that had H5N1 influenza in it.
>150 million copies/liter!
Thankfully, it was safe to drink because the milk was pasteurized, so I’m not saying what brand.
Takehome: DON’T DRINK RAW MILK.
Khalid K. Alam • خالد كمال عالم retweeted
My lexical call-to-arms is now out in The Atlantic: Let’s abandon the term “lab” as a term for the AI industry’s most powerful corporations. We should reserve the word for organizations whose primary activity is scientific research. Gift link: theatlantic.com/technology/2…
