Quarto Extension: arXiv with Typst
A Quarto Typst extension that renders the classic single-column ML-paper layout you see on arXiv from NeurIPS and related conferences.
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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.
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CSV to Canvas Quiz
I vibe coded an app to convert text / CSV files into importable Canvas quiz item banks
August 2026 links #1
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Codon usage bias for prose
Anthropic is now watermarking Claude's output. The mechanism is statistical (not lexical) and a detection hit doesn't mean what most people will assume.
I'm Hiring: Postdoc in AI + Biosecurity
I have a grant starting in September to set up a new AIxBio / biosecurity program, and I'm hiring a postdoc in AI biosecurity evaluation and study design
Trailmix: record and transcribe webinars and meetings locally on your Mac
I built a Mac app that records and transcribes web events giving you a diarized transcript along with video and audio-only recordings. Everything stays local on your device.
pdfdown: in-browser PDF to markdown
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July 2026 Links
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Screening for Function, not just Sequence
A proposed successor to IARPA's FunGCAT program
ARPA-H 101
Primers on how ARPA-H (and other ARPAs) are different than your typical NIH/NSF research programs and proposals
Containers Rot Too
What happens when you try to rebuild containerized bioinformatics tools from five years of software papers
Prompt injection defenses open a biosecurity gap
The low-authority treatment of external content that helps LLMs resist hijacking with prompt injection also defeats biosecurity warnings built into external tools
Benchmarking AI Biosecurity Refusals
Refusal ≠ safety. What 3 recent evals reveal about risk discrimination, over-refusal, and concealed hazards Bonus: we could do some interesting economic modeling on this.
AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
How to SNIFF out Good Scientific Software
New PLOS Computational Biology paper: "Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF Out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software"
Turn new data into Quarto reports automatically
The {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating parameterized Quarto reports.
Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026
Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio Mythos" moment. 1.7k words, 8 min reading time.
My Comment on OMB-2026-0034
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Fewer Rungs on the Ladder
Automating the analyst's work doesn't turn analysts into principal scientists
Five things (July 2, 2026): AIxBio, NIH, QED
GeneBench-Pro, LLM agents and biological tools, the volition premium, NIH’s 235 flagged words, QED’s top 1%
Test Driving Claude Science
Anthropic released Claude Science today. I tried it out for an AIxBio literature review and for an analysis using the IUCN Red List API with R.