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01 Aug 26, 2026 LinkedIn

Drew Schofield’s work shows that chemical property imputation can improve predictions in data-scarce and data-sparse settings, including across different missingness regimes.

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02 Aug 25, 2026 X

AI can help you do more without knowing more, but expertise grows with work.

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03 Aug 23, 2026 X

AI reviews will kill anonymous peer review. Having to sign your name to an obviously AI-generated laundry list of major revisions will bring it to a stop.

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04 Aug 20, 2026 LinkedIn

Anthropic’s science writeups are a disservice. Based on the headlines, you would never divine that “from scratch” means a massive expert prompt and the use of open-source domain-expert design tools. The model just orchestrated.

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05 Aug 10, 2026 LinkedIn

In Good Will Hunting, troubled but brilliant Will Hunting sets the film’s events in motion by solving a publicly posted challenge problem. The plot doesn’t work today. Everyone assumes he plugged it into chat.

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06 Aug 9, 2026 LinkedIn

As more discoveries are made, the area of the unknown interface expands. As the balloon of knowledge inflates, its frontier gets bigger rather than smaller, and we need more experts—not fewer—to navigate it.

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07 Aug 6, 2026 LinkedIn

“The median person will be much more prosperous in 20 years because of AI” is still consistent with “The median person will be much less prosperous over the next 10 years because of AI.” Technologists underestimate the negative feelings toward AI among people who see real threats to the assumptions they built their lives around.

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08 Aug 5, 2026 LinkedIn

Just cracked Descartes’ Meditations and it is funny that he essentially opens with “I’ve been meaning to demolish my system of beliefs for years, but it was tough to find some quiet time.” Great opening.

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09 Aug 3, 2026 LinkedIn

We’re hiring! This is a great place to start a career and you will have really lovely and brilliant colleagues (self excluded).

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10 Aug 3, 2026 Slow Variables

Become an expert, go into debt if you have to.

We'll need more experts, not less

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11 Jun 18, 2026 Slow Variables

There Never Was a Safe Model

The Age of Casual Access to Frontier AI is closing

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12 Jun 4, 2026 Slow Variables

Experts, Build Your Harnesses

Why One Model Probably Won't Rule Them All

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13 May 18, 2026 Slow Variables

The Frontier is Human

Technology Scales, Responsibility Does Not

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14 Apr 27, 2026 Slow Variables

Emotions are Not the Human Moat

AI may undermine your relationships before it takes your job.

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15 Apr 13, 2026 Slow Variables

More Tullockery

On optimal contests

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16 Apr 7, 2026 Slow Variables

The Workshop Model of Attribution

AI and the reckoning over how we distribute prestige.

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