derek guy

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19 October 2026 10:22

i will be the judge of that

Ran Blekhman

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19 October 2026 10:22

Some of my thoughts about the surge in AI-generated papers, why this feels like a completely new kind of problem, and what this means for how we evaluate science in biology. Out now in PLOS Biology: journals.plos.org/plosbiology/...

derek guy

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19 October 2026 10:21

just asked my tailor if he disavows the muslin brotherhood

Aatish Bhatia

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19 October 2026 01:32

Here's a photo by Ansel Adams showing how this memory was woven [1]. And a PR photo of a worker weaving memory for the Apollo guidance computer [2]. This was painstaking and precise work, that was mostly done by women. 1. notes.husk.org/post/8260505... 2. www.technologystories.org/making-core-...

Aatish Bhatia

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19 October 2026 01:32

Some people are so brilliant. This person wove their own magnetic core memory and created a circuit board to read and write to it. www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ1W... This is the form of memory that was in the Apollo guidance computer that took astronauts to the moon en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magneti...