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← Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it.

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Same subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subjectSame subject Read this korrent: Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it. Biology keeps turning upwhole classes of thingsnobody knew existed, and… DL Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-09-19 Same subject: Large language models are a bad way to do science, because they have been fed so much that nobody knows what they already knew. — tap to centre the map on it Large language modelsare a bad way to do… RS Richard Sutton — holds since 2025-09-26 Same subject: How much machine learning can help a biological problem is set by the quality of the data around that problem, not by the algorithms. — tap to centre the map on it How much machinelearning can help a… DL Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-09-19 Same subject: Machine learning is a shallow field compared with mathematics: even its most important ideas can be explained in a couple of minutes. — tap to centre the map on it Machine learning is ashallow field compared… RG Ryan Greenblatt — holds since 2026-08-11 Same subject: Alignment of today's models is going well enough to look solvable, while aligning models we can no longer understand remains unsolved. — tap to centre the map on it Alignment of today'smodels is going well… JL Jan Leike — holds since 2026-01-22 Same subject: Model intelligence should speciate like the animal kingdom rather than converge on one oracle that knows everything. — tap to centre the map on it Model intelligenceshould speciate like… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2026-03-20 Same subject: Most proteins have no known function, so there is no pile of solid data for a model to learn most of cell biology from. — tap to centre the map on it Most proteins have noknown function, so… DL Derek Lowe — holds since 2024-09-19 Same subject: A model can make an existing algorithm a hundred times faster and still cannot invent a better one, however long you give it. — tap to centre the map on it A model can make anexisting algorithm a… NB Noam Brown — holds since 2026-06-26 Same subject: The knowledge a model soaks up in pre-training is holding it back; what we actually want is the intelligence with the knowledge stripped out. — tap to centre the map on it The knowledge a modelsoaks up in… AK Andrej Karpathy — holds since 2025-10-17
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At the centre Biology keeps turning up whole classes of things nobody knew existed, and that is what defeats attempts to model it. Holds DLDerek Lowe Read this korrent →