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Markov Biosciences
Company blog · markov.bio/researchscienceai
Markov Biosciences is the company blog at markov.bio, writing about science and ai. Since 2022, 3 different Hacker News readers have linked it 3 times, most often “A Future History of Biomedical Progress – Markov Bio”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link this essay critiquing deep learning researchers' overconfidence and 'snake oil' claims. The comment discussion centres on whether the essay engages with scaling laws.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 1 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Peer inside the black box of biology through our interpretable cellular world models.
Most-linked posts?
- A Future History of Biomedical Progress – Markov Bio2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2022-08-30
What Hacker News says?
>snake oil >our book Ctrl+F "scaling" gives 0 results across this essay Deep learners have their scaling laws which seem to hold across many orders of magnitude of model size and compute spent on training. Critics sometimes have to resort to building their argumentation along pretty esoteric tangents to avoid naming this elephant in the room. Instead of denying scaling, why shouldn't we make it work for our society'…
Comment linking /biomedical-progress/
on “Why are deep learning technologists so overconfident?”Submitted A Future History of Biomedical Progress – Markov Bio as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Mechanistic Interpretability as the Bridge to End-to-End Biology as a story · 1 points
HN discussion