Ethan Hetrick
@ethan-hetrick.bsky.social
AI "taking over the world" as they say -- there is a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI are the only companies spewing this nonsense.
Create the sickness, sell the cure. Anthropic is becoming publicly traded this October, it is not a coincidence that they are spreading doomsday horseshit right now.
Create the sickness, sell the cure. Anthropic is becoming publicly traded this October, it is not a coincidence that they are spreading doomsday horseshit right now.
September 13, 2026 at 6:06 AM
AI "taking over the world" as they say -- there is a reason why Anthropic and OpenAI are the only companies spewing this nonsense.
Create the sickness, sell the cure. Anthropic is becoming publicly traded this October, it is not a coincidence that they are spreading doomsday horseshit right now.
Create the sickness, sell the cure. Anthropic is becoming publicly traded this October, it is not a coincidence that they are spreading doomsday horseshit right now.
This kept me up last night, this is mind shattering. This is a fundamental change to the central dogma.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Functional chimeric mRNAs encode proteins in mammalian immunity - Nature
Inflammation induces interchromosomal DNA interactions that bring parent genes into close proximity, facilitating the formation of chimeric mRNAs that encode physiologically relevant, functional prote...
www.nature.com
September 10, 2026 at 7:17 PM
This kept me up last night, this is mind shattering. This is a fundamental change to the central dogma.
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Without that fundamental expertise, AI does not democratise science. It merely democratises the appearance of science. This can manifest as analyses that look rigorous
...
and conclusions that cannot be evaluated by the people who act on them.
Without that fundamental expertise, AI does not democratise science. It merely democratises the appearance of science. This can manifest as analyses that look rigorous
...
and conclusions that cannot be evaluated by the people who act on them.
Rethinking bioinformatics expertise in the era of artificial intelligence - npj Digital Medicine
npj Digital Medicine - Rethinking bioinformatics expertise in the era of artificial intelligence
www.nature.com
September 1, 2026 at 4:21 AM
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Without that fundamental expertise, AI does not democratise science. It merely democratises the appearance of science. This can manifest as analyses that look rigorous
...
and conclusions that cannot be evaluated by the people who act on them.
Without that fundamental expertise, AI does not democratise science. It merely democratises the appearance of science. This can manifest as analyses that look rigorous
...
and conclusions that cannot be evaluated by the people who act on them.
Anyone else really enjoy programming without AI lately? I feel like it's more enjoyable than ever. Now I only use it as a last resort if I'm stuck, rather than getting belittled by dweebs on Stack Overflow.
August 18, 2026 at 9:37 PM
Anyone else really enjoy programming without AI lately? I feel like it's more enjoyable than ever. Now I only use it as a last resort if I'm stuck, rather than getting belittled by dweebs on Stack Overflow.
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🎯 Goodhart’s law: if you make a list of variants the target, people will get really good at calling those variants. But those variants are not a genome! As a result, we’ve been stuck trying to read genomes under the lamppost of short reads [4/15]
August 6, 2026 at 3:42 PM
🎯 Goodhart’s law: if you make a list of variants the target, people will get really good at calling those variants. But those variants are not a genome! As a result, we’ve been stuck trying to read genomes under the lamppost of short reads [4/15]
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We should probably acknowledge CDC now has a new Director. Welcome 👋
Your boss may be NotAScientist RFK Jr., but your mission is public health. When politics ignores evidence, CDC should choose science. Every. Single. Time.
Your boss may be NotAScientist RFK Jr., but your mission is public health. When politics ignores evidence, CDC should choose science. Every. Single. Time.
Erica Schwartz confirmed as CDC director, filling nearly yearlong vacancy
Now confirmed, Erica Schwartz is the third CDC nominee since Trump took office for his second term.
www.statnews.com
August 5, 2026 at 7:31 PM
We should probably acknowledge CDC now has a new Director. Welcome 👋
Your boss may be NotAScientist RFK Jr., but your mission is public health. When politics ignores evidence, CDC should choose science. Every. Single. Time.
Your boss may be NotAScientist RFK Jr., but your mission is public health. When politics ignores evidence, CDC should choose science. Every. Single. Time.