"Expert players abandon about 80 per cent of their hands in the popular variant of Texas Hold’em. ..Compare that to an amateur, who will stick with their starting cards over half the time"
..the ability to say "no" is highly underrated
ft.com/content/22b826cd-c451…
Rolf Mathies retweeted
Introducing Pollock: a single-cell browser for live transformations on massive datasets.
- Browse, edit, or create annotations
- Subcluster and re-do dim reduction
- Visualize differential gene expression
- Track all transformations and analyses
Use it now!
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a lot of programmable biology will be open-source 🤓
crisprVerse is an open-source ecosystem, and builds on top of the rich and versatile @Bioconductor project.
Check out our GitHub page:
github.com/crisprVerse
Rolf Mathies retweeted
I expect that we are going to see an explosion of “secret AI,” where AI advice is delivered by humans. Why?
We hate to listen to AI. For example, getting feedback from an AI system improved employee performance… until people learned it was from an AI, then performance DROPPED.
JPMorgan Launches Life-Sciences Venture Group
New investment team to back early- to growth-stage companies 🙂
wsj.com/articles/jpmorgan-la… via @WSJ
"..customers can now pay for a Deliveroo takeaway in instalments via Klarna.....Still, it’s hard to escape the impression of two drunks propping each other up at the end of a long party"
How will we remember the age of cheap money? ft.com/content/1d2af214-caf6…
"On the surface, the movers, streamers and creepers—and thus their problems—look distinct. On closer inspection, though, their businesses all turn out to face the same main pitfalls.."
creepers 🤣
economist.com/business/2022/…
"In a sop to bleary-eyed lawyers, participants on video calls will be allowed to turn off their cameras between the hours of 8pm and 8am"
better it is 🤪 ft.com/content/7889ac74-e90f…
Rolf Mathies retweeted
Deglobalisation means less China (Chart 1)
ESG (so far) means more China (Chart 2)
"there are hundreds of millions of dollars being deployed towards glorified tech demos built on top of identical datasets"
not very surprising but still very 🙁
Media has become increasingly negative since 2000, with more and more headlines expressing fear, anger, sadness, and disgust. Neutral headlines are getting rarer. doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone…
"GitHub Copilot is already writing 40% of the code for users of the AI pair programming tool, which turns natural-language prompts into suggested code, according to Nadella"
probably some PR but still...
Embrace, extend, Ignite protocol.com/newsletters/pro…
good & scary
@Ginkgo has developed tools that US intelligence agencies can use to detect engineered DNA, a milestone that could better protect the nation from human-made biological threats.
This reads like Sci-Fi—but it isn’t! More here: bloomberg.com/news/articles/…
Rolf Mathies retweeted
🎉👁 Congratulations to Earlybird Health’s Ophthalmology portfolio company Oculis on announcing the creation of “Oculis Holding SA”, a @Nasdaq-listed biopharma company, following a combination with the EBAC.
👉 More on bit.ly/3gbxFaM
highly recommended reading to understand politics, power, sycophantism, ego & war ...(unfortunately) lots of rhyming history on all sides...
Kissinger: A Biography by Walter Isaacson amazon.com/dp/B00AK78QAY/ref… via @amazon
