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Chao Lam's avatar

Thanks for this piece - I was just debating with my friend how this "feed DNA to the neural nets" idea. I am so glad someone with much deeper knowledge of biology has already thought about it, and spent the time to explain it so well.

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Kennedy McDaniel Bae's avatar

I’d love to hear more about your debate! I’m sure there are additional layers worthy of discussion and not included here.

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Chao Lam's avatar

iirc, I was arguing that trying to figure out how DNA works was like trying to figure out computer binary code without knowing anything about the processor (CPU) it runs on - usual computer geek talk 😂

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Noah MacCallum's avatar

Great read. I’d love to see a deep dive on how exactly the system can identify knowledge gaps and address them with new experiments, and if that could be done with transformers specifically. Such a system would be very useful for non biological domains too

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Kennedy McDaniel Bae's avatar

Love this direction for a deep dive. Thanks!

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