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Stephen D. Turner
Personal blog · blog.stephenturner.usaisciencedata
Stephen D. Turner writes Paired Ends, a personal blog at blog.stephenturner.us about ai, science and data. Since 2024, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-01, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (1) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Posts on benchmarking AI biosecurity, linked in a thread arguing that AI model refusals amount to censorship. The comment cites them as support and does not judge the writing.
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.
A practicing data scientist's take on AI, genomics, biosecurity, and the ways AI is reshaping how science gets done. Weekly updates from the field. Occasional notes on programming. Click to read Paired Ends, by Stephen D. Turner,
What Hacker News says?
The cybersecurity refusals, the biology refusals: https://blog.stephenturner.us/p/benchmarking-ai-biosecurity-... and the sexual activity refusals are all a form of censorship. Their purpose is the same as what the Chinese government would claim as being the reason to censor information on things like Tianenmen square.
Comment linking /p/benchmarking-ai-biosecurity-refusals
on “GLM-5.3-Flash”Submitted Writing a book with Quarto as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Biorecap: An R package for summarizing bioRxiv preprints with a local LLM as a story · 7 points
HN discussionSubmitted De-slop the text you shouldn't be writing anyway as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted R Package Development with Positron as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted My relationship with AI is changing as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Use R to prompt a local LLM with ollamar as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Bluesky for Science as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted Create a free Llama 3.1 405B-powered chatbot on a GitHub repo in <1 min as a story · 2 points
HN discussionSubmitted What I'm reading (July 2024, part 2) as a story · 1 points
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