Drew Schofield’s work shows that chemical property imputation can improve predictions in data-scarce and data-sparse settings, including across different missingness regimes.
Brett M. Savoie
Writing
AI can help you do more without knowing more, but expertise grows with work.
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.
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.
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.
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.
“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.
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.
We’re hiring! This is a great place to start a career and you will have really lovely and brilliant colleagues (self excluded).
Become an expert, go into debt if you have to.
We'll need more experts, not less
There Never Was a Safe Model
The Age of Casual Access to Frontier AI is closing
Experts, Build Your Harnesses
Why One Model Probably Won't Rule Them All
The Frontier is Human
Technology Scales, Responsibility Does Not
Emotions are Not the Human Moat
AI may undermine your relationships before it takes your job.
More Tullockery
On optimal contests
The Workshop Model of Attribution
AI and the reckoning over how we distribute prestige.