What Alex Telford thinks about neural networks

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Writer on biotechnology and the economics of drug development, with a background working in and around the pharmaceutical industry. He writes long, sourced essays at atelfo.github.io on why drugs are hard to discover, what regulation does to that, and where the industry is going.

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1. 23 Dec 2023

   Our readingDeep learning is not yet ready for the task that would actually add value in drug development: predicting safety and efficacy in humans.

   Their wordsit will take time for deep learning systems and training data to mature enough to be useful for the truly value-adding task of predicting safety and efficacy in humans

   ↗The pharma industry from Paul Janssen to today: why drugs got harder to develop and what we can do about itatelfo.github.io 8th of 9 in this piece