Meghan Heintz

Python is going to die as the language of data science and machine learning if it doesn’t adopt mandatory typing. Typed languages are inherently better for coding with LLMs and we are all using LLMs to code. Typescript is going to eat Pythons lunch and you should stop developing for it.

Colleague of Harvard scientist held by ICE warns that foreign scientists are scared Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

Harvard scientist Kseniia Petrova has been in ICE custody for about two months. Her colleague and friend Leon Peshkin says her case is causing some scientists to reconsider working in the U.S.

If we get this payment layer where we can pay for all these tools with micro transactions, then the future of subscription software looks very tenuous. Instead of managing a dozen monthly SAAS subscriptions to run your business, you'll have one subscription or pool of money to pay from.

That payment layer is going to have to be crypto because otherwise, everyone would get wrecked by payment processing fees.

Things I see for the future:
Crypto (finally) has a real-world global use case. AIs can use tools with MCP. Many of these tools will be loosely wrapped API calls. These MCPs can't manage thousands of API keys so there will be a payment layer on top that handles it.

The head of our country’s government is in the early stages of consolidating total power. We must of course reject this, but that is not enough. We have to respond by creating a different and better kind of American politics than we have seen before.

The freight guys have really started freaking out over the past 48-72 hours:

Movie that takes place where you’re from

I’m from a lot of places as a military brat but New Orleans and San Francisco are my favorite ones and this movie is set in both

This is something my father (a search and rescue pilot) always told me growing up

Hate to say it but this is also a common tradition for American engineers

If I were a Dem, I’d be holding a press conference rn about how Trump is thinking about giving people in Greenland $10k a year at the same time he’s inflicting a 145% tariff tax on Americans who buy goods from China.

Now that’s a screenshot.

> @atrupar.com

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Chuck Schumer should step down and let Cory Booker be the minority leader

I got off the train at USQ and there was a guy sleeping in an emergency blanket and a “out of business” banner right next to a guy clearly installing a skimmer into a @wellsfargobank.bsky.social ATM yesterday in broad daylight 😳

solana was built on rust, a language that famously has several prominent trans and non binary contributors and maintainers. absolutely clownish behavior to make and release that ad.

They started with the undocumented, then they went after visa holders and permanent residents, now it's naturalized citizens.

How many times must history rhyme and repeat before we realize what's going on?

My plan is to do this each month around whatever makes me the most angry and theme it to a cookbook I wish I used more.

Martha Stewarts first cookbook Entertaining modified to say Entertaining & Agitating: Public Lands Edition.

I've been looking for an excuse to make some recipes from this Martha Stewart cookbook and I found it by inviting my friends over to write postcards to elected officials about how angry we are at the attacks on our public lands.

Entertaining & Agitating.

One day left to request a ballot to vote online for California Democratic Party delegates - form closes at noon this Friday 1/31! Party delegates vote on endorsements and work on the party platform and organizing volunteers I'm running with the AD14 Progressive-Labor Slate!
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The @dangoldmanforny.bsky.social Office told me I had been redistricted out his district when I hadn’t when I called to ask what he was doing about the EOs. Gonna remember that next time I vote and talk to my neighbors about our representation.

Anyone else finding DeepSeek7b too chatty? I'm testing it from some coding tools and it's not doing so hot.

The gpt4-b micro news is really interesting re: stem cell creation but also seems a lot like the beginning of the @mikeduncan.bsky.social Martian Revolution podcast

27% of US coffee comes from Colombia www.ers.usda.gov/data-product...

The reservoirs in SoCal are all at or above their historic averages. In fact, almost all of the CA DWR reservoirs are. In 2022, CA had alarmingly low reservoir levels but that is not the case in 2025. The mfer is always working on dated misremembered and misunderstood data.

Trump’s EO about sending water from the NorCal CA DWR reservoirs to the SoCal ones and making a point about people over fish is an example of something that sounds right but is in fact stupid if you take 10s to look at evidence or talk to anyone.

Reinforcement Learning: Self-Driving Cars to Self-Driving Labs Understanding AI applications in bio for machine learning engineers

I personally found lab work to be boring af so its interesting that we are inventing ways with reinforcement learning to scale the work to further fundamental knowledge without chaining some of our most ambitious scientists to benches to pipette for years.

medium.com/towards-data...

Imho the most interesting finding from protein function prediction is how GNNs can ID similar structures with dissimilar sequences. That should make biosecurity applications more robust since more traditional methods like BLAST rely on sequence similarity searches.

Graph Neural Networks: Fraud Detection and Protein Function Prediction Understanding AI applications in bio for machine learning engineers

Part 4 of my ML bio series where I break down how graph neural networks are applied to familiar problems like fraud and how they’re extended to the complexities of protein function prediction.

towardsdatascience.com/graph-neural...