Aya

Navel-gazed for 12s.

The article itself has a lot of great coverage of people harmed by nitrate pollution from farms.

This headline is like running a story on how a cigarette company caused cancer, but the headline only mentioning an unrelated bowling alley in the town, and implying the bowling alley caused the cancer

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YouTube video by JupyterCon Jupyter MCP Server: Standardizing AI Agent Access To Jupyter Notebooks - Eric Charles, Datalayer

@ayalan.bsky.social Video is now live on www.youtube.com/watch?v=lO2p...

If @anthropic.com could fix one thing with the claude.ai interface it would be to stop throwing away half completed reponses on error. The responses were captured in the UX; surely also in SOME other server state? Couldn't we gather this and submit as a partial Assistant response to be completed?

n8n for Bioinformatics Data Prep and Notifications Learn how n8n brings lightweight automation to bioinformatics—streamlining ETL, file handling, and complementing tools like Nextflow and Snakemake.

Very interesting to see tools like n8n being used in spaces like bioinformatics. Meant to work between the gaps together with NextFlow and other pipeline tooling; not to replace it.

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Hooray for an introvert!

Wish I could have watched this one! Will there be a recording available?

The Mintz Report is wrong on EDI - University Affairs Demanding ‘institutional neutrality,’ Alberta’s report on the post-secondary system risks silencing equity.

So many reasons 2B upset with recent moves by Alberta gov whose current leader benefited from the very #EDI initiatives they intend to dismantle.

As academics, we need 2B vocal- EDI initiatives must remain firmly embedded in academia. @cdnwomenstem.bsky.social

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New rule: no copy/pasting LLM output into documents or emails. If you use generated text, you have to type it out letter by letter yourself, even if you're just transcribing it without changing

I think if people do that, a lot of the cringe will go away--inevitably you'll change the tone & details

Wikipedia Says AI Is Causing a Dangerous Decline in Human Visitors “With fewer visits to Wikipedia, fewer volunteers may grow and enrich the content, and fewer individual donors may support this work.”

Wikipedia is seeing a significant decline in human traffic because more people are getting the information that’s on Wikipedia via generative AI chatbots that were trained on its articles and search engines that summarize them without actually clicking to the site

www.404media.co/wikipedia-sa...

The markdown-to-PDF tool that Manus likes to default to does not parse - formatted lists very well. Asking it to use WeasyPrint yields much better results.

Dr. Marignani's example has had a profound influence on me and countless others who have benefited from her generosity, mentorship, and passion for science. Congrats @pmarignani.bsky.social @dalhousie.bsky.social for being selected as a finalist for the Discovery Award Science Champion! 👩‍🔬

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Scientists no Longer Find Twitter Professionally Useful, and have Switched to Bluesky Synopsis. Social media has become widely used by the scientific community for a variety of professional uses, including networking and public outreach. For

People doubted me when I said researchers were moving from #Twitter to #Bluesky. Then @altmetric.com showed early data supporting the claim, and now @whysharksmatter.bsky.social & @drjuliawester.bsky.social confirm it with their research. The trend is real. Switch now! #SocialMedia #X #ResearchSky

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10/
Your code may be brilliant.
But if users can’t figure out what to run, on what data, and what they’ll get…
It might as well not exist.

1/ I’ve reviewed hundreds of bioinformatics GitHub repos in my career.
Here’s the brutal truth: most tool documentation fails the people it’s meant to help.
And it’s not because the algorithms are bad.

Manus Manus is a general AI agent that turns your thoughts into actions. It excels at various tasks in work and life, getting everything done while you rest.

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The journey of curiosity is evolving 🦠

After months of designing and making demos, just built a better mouse house that is stainless steel inert, reusable and safe for 🐭.

Which housing would you prefer? The red house or the stainless steel custom design housing?
#ScienceIsFun #SafeHousing #MouseHouse

Happy Neil day to all who celebrate

Starting experimenting with the compounding error rate of agents that make small errors in small numbers of cells when "chatting with data" using LLMs, and the results are.... not good (if you care about accuracy).

Insightful comments from @pmarignani.bsky.social about opportunities and relation to the research funding ecosystem in Canada.🍁

Sakana AI The AI Scientist Generates its First Peer-Reviewed Scientific Publication

"To our knowledge, this is the first time a fully AI-generated paper was good enough to pass a standard scientific peer-review process like the one described." By @sakanaai.bsky.social

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Papers generated by the AI-Scientists are public to read at github.com/SakanaAI/AI-...

Why are QR Codes with capital letters smaller than QR codes with lower-case letters? Take a look at these two QR codes. Scan them if you like, I promise there's nothing dodgy in them.     Left is upper-case HTTPS://EDENT.TEL/ and right is lower-case https://edent.tel/ You can clearly see that the one on the left is a "smaller" QR as it has fewer bits of data in it. Both go to the same URl, the only difference is the casing. What's going on? Your first thought might be that there's a different level of error-correction. QR codes can have increasing levels of redundancy i…

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"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)

What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." (Arthur C. Clarke)

What technology have you used lately that felt like magic to you?

On echo chambers I think you really can make yourself dumber if your follows are too narrow or your blocks too wide.

I want a feed that gently exposes me to contrary opinions, while somehow measuring the temperature of my piss to make sure it doesn't boil over and drag me into stupid arguments