Happy 2025! A Signaling and Mechanical Role for Folate in Neural Tube Closure

Happy 2025! May it be filled with happiness and exciting science. In this blog post, I discuss a paper I read earlier today on a signaling and mechanical role for folate in neural tube closure. Read More

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David
02 January 2025

Generalization is Hard

I have been thinking a lot about generalization in AI, and why it is so hard. Read More

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David
28 October 2024

Domain expertise matters, especially in fields that want to use AI

There seems to be this feeling in Silicon Valley that you can just throw a bunch of MLEs at a biology problem and it will get solved. I argue that this is a mistake. Read More

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David
23 October 2024

Trip to the Amazon

A brief recount of my first trip to the Amazon Read More

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David
10 October 2024

Miracle Hunter

A short anecdote I wrote for a storytelling slam Read More

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David
09 October 2024

2024 Nobel Prize in Chemistry goes half to David Baker

David Baker won the Nobel today, and the news brought me back to my time in his lab. Congratulations, David! Read More

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David
09 October 2024