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Benjamin Tseng

@benjamintseng.com
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Builder passionate for deeptech; 8+ yrs x-border deeptech VC; All opinions mine alone

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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 13/06/2026
All enterprise security is either: (a) 3 levels: access nothing, access next to nothing, and can do everything + will automatically share your social security # (b) "We have 1000 granular permissions you can add... but good luck figuring out which you need and which you have"
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/03/2026
Very cool — AlphaFold database now includes homodimer protein complexes (where two of the same protein unit combine to actually build a functioning unit) www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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AlphaFold database hits ‘next level’: the AI system now includes protein pairing
The database of 200 million protein-structure predictions now includes homodimers, adding new biological relevance.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/03/2026
Taking a page from Ukraine & Iran's playbooks on dealing with larger, more equipped rivals, Taiwan now investing heavily in building "China-free" drone technology benjamintseng.com/2026/03/taiw...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 17/03/2026
Use AI to talk back at your parents www.scmp.com/news/people-...
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China woman uses AI-made man to lecture on respecting science, rejecting superstition
Non-existent retired professor who ‘lectures’ on parent-child relationships gathers online support from 200,000 followers.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 25/01/2026
Shot. Chaser.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 15/01/2026
There's a consequence to the two parties being captured by extreme online opinions @gallup.com polls show record high fraction of Americans consider themselves Independent with GenZ / Millennials identifying >50% as independent More @ news.gallup.com/poll/700499/...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 10/12/2025
I finally gave in to the old man in me 👴🏻 My IDEs are no longer in dark mode. I have seen the light (mode)
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 08/12/2025
Recent studies have shown by directing CAR-T Cells at B-cells (which make the autoantibodies that cause much of autoimmune damage), you not only eliminate the autoantibodies, but potentially "reset" the immune system to a healthier state Literally a potential cure! benjamintseng.com/2025/12/car-...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 29/11/2025
Hard to tell if this is deliberate fine tuning or a strange product of how Chinese models need to be tuned so as to NOT disagree with the stance of the CCP🇨🇳 But underscores some of the risks associated with using Chinese models
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 29/11/2025
Shocking but not at the same time Chinese DeepSeek model (the 670B reasoning one) produces 50% more security vulnerabilities when a politically sensitive "trigger word" (eg Taiwan, Tibet, Uyghur) is present in the request www.crowdstrike.com/en-us/blog/c...
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CrowdStrike Researchers Identify Hidden Vulnerabilities in AI-Coded Software
CrowdStrike researchers reveal how trigger words cause DeepSeek-R1 to generate vulnerable code—exposing new AI-driven risks in software development.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 11/11/2025
The final Buffett letter includes this charming anecdote & suggestion to us all on how to live a good life Text of the full letter: www.berkshirehathaway.com/news/nov1025...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 04/11/2025
I'm generally optimistic about AI technology (yes, even for our careers) ... with one exception, and the data is starting to prove my fears right benjamintseng.com/2025/11/whos...
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Who’s Jobs are AI Taking Right Now?
Despite all the speculation over why Amazon is laying off 14,000 workers, as of this writing, and with a few exceptions I’ll note below, I don’t personally worry a great deal about AI t…
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Henrique C. S. Junior @hcsj.bsky.social · 03/11/2025
#ChemSky
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Turning 40 is a milestone that should come with a manual. All I got were these lessons instead -- hopefully they help (or at least amuse) you Read all about the 7 lessons in full here: benjamintseng.com/2025/10/seve...
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Seven Lessons from My 30s
Source: Nano Banana Turning 40 is a milestone that should come with a manual. It doesn’t, of course, but it does come with a decade’s worth of receipts for lessons learned the old fashioned way. As…
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 7: Play stupid (status) games, win stupid prizes Status games are everywhere (ask any parent of young kids the last time an ad or article made them feel guilty). Recognize them and consciously decide which ones are actually worth your time and energy
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 6: Good taste is overrated In your career, good taste is an asset In life? It’s better to have low standards. Being easy to please (ie with wine, movies, food) is a superpower for everyday contentness. It saves you time, money, and mental energy for what truly matters.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 5: Genius doesn't generalize In an age of influencer marketing & interview podcasts, its important to remember what it takes to be brilliant at one thing comes at the expense of others TLDR: don't ask a gymbro for relationship advice or a VC about how to help the poor
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
2020 was a hard year. I was unemployed w a young son & aging parents I couldn't see But it was also the year I built a telemedicine operation 0-to-1, built AI models which made it into academic papers, and did policy work which led to new friends & opptys Embrace the unlikely
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 4: Embrace the unlikely My 30s included my getting fired, a pandemic, 9% inflation, US political re-alignment, my being put on a legal witness stand — all things I thought were unlikely. Prepare for what you can, but also learn to embrace the unlikely...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 3: There’s little upside in talking about politics Modern political discourse is about tribal outrage. It leads to bad policy and bad behavior. Disengage from the daily outrage cycle and focus on *policy*. It's boring, but that's a feature, not a bug
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Knowing someone is a doctor tells you a great deal about their education, income, and views on risk & credentials. Knowing someone is a politician tells you they're professional fundraisers and popularity contest winners, and that they're structurally surrounded by flatterers
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 2: A profession gives an oddly effective read on a person Careers shape our incentives, skills, and definitions of success/failure. While not the whole story, knowing what someone does for a living offers a surprisingly useful set of heuristics for understanding them.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
Lesson 1: Don't partner with someone until you've seen them in a crisis It’s easy to be open & giving when things are good. It's the bad times that reveal value & priorities. Before you enter a partnership (💰 or ❤), see how they handle a storm
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 19/10/2025
My 30s were a wild decade of learning things about being a parent & about how the world works. As I head into the next decade, I've been reflecting on the lessons that have reshaped how I see the world. Here are 7 of them. 🧵
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 28/09/2025
How you know it's time to start thinking about selling...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 25/09/2025
Gene therapy for Huntington's Disease shows 75% slowdown in progression over 36 month clinical trial! Amazing feat — working gene therapy + targeted surgery + synthetic control arm — and for company uniQure (who's seeing a 3x stock price bump on the news) benjamintseng.com/2025/09/gene...
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Gene therapy for Huntington’s shows promising clinical trial data
Huntington’s Disease is one of the classic “uncurable” neurodegenerative diseases. A genetic mutation produces a mutant form of a protein (called Huntingtin) which leads to sudden…
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 12/09/2025
Why are ultra-processed foods bad for you? benjamintseng.com/2025/09/why-...
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Why are ultra-processed foods bad for you?
Nutrition is a field that is fraught with studies that are not powered or designed well enough to make strong conclusions about what types of diets are the “best”. So it was interesting…
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Tara C. Smith @aetiology.bsky.social · 11/09/2025
Death from sub-acute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE) in a child in Los Angeles SSPE is a rare sequel of #measles infection that appears years after the initial infection, and is uniformly fatal. So sorry for this family. As things are going on the US, we'll be seeing more of these cases.
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Child dies from rare measles-related complication, LA County health officials say
Health officials reported the death of a Los Angeles County child from a complication of measles infection acquired during infancy.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 07/09/2025
The Surrealism of Authoritarianism -- a look at life under Xi Jinping outlines some of the hallmarks of authoritarian rule benjamintseng.com/2025/09/the-...
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The Surrealism of Authoritarianism
Among the obvious hallmarks of authoritarianism are: Arbitrary paranoia from on high — where students singing patriotic songs on bike rides are suddenly viewed to be a threat Contradiction be…
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 27/08/2025
You are buying this shirt because you're a Swiftie I'm buying this shirt to protest the Chinese Communist party We are not the same 🤣
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 15/08/2025
Listening to a medical informatics professor talk to a Med Student who thought he could vibe code through a data analysis & fail because he doesnt understand how the code or the data works 🤦🏻‍♂️ Vibe coding can be great: but don't use it where it matters if you can't check it
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 15/08/2025
Amazing technical feat but does this not defeat the purpose of block chain as distributed ledger if you need to rely on a database hosted at a cloud provider? How blockchain network Keeta processes 11 million transactions per second with Spanner | Google Cloud Blog share.google/dvfJQGpayOBh...
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How blockchain network Keeta processes 11 million transactions per second with Spanner | Google Cloud Blog
A recent public stress test verified that Keeta Network’s transaction volume significantly outperformed traditional layer-1 blockchains.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 12/08/2025
Are we at the start of a new golden age of antimicrobial discovery? The lower cost of metagenomics + our better understanding of biosynthetic gene clusters + new computational methods = we may outrun the awful "end of antibiotics" that's fast approaching benjamintseng.com/2025/08/new-...
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New Age Bioprospecting for Antimicrobials
One of the major contributors to improved healthcare outcomes and reduced mortality in the post-World War II era was the widespread use of antibiotics. Able to treat infection, these miracle drugs …
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 22/07/2025
This is a good thing in the neverending war on weaponized misinformation If only we could get X to do the same... www.cnbc.com/2025/07/21/y...
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YouTube wipes out thousands of propaganda channels linked to China, Russia, others
Google removed YouTube channels and other accounts linked to RT, the Russian state-controlled media outlet accused of paying prominent conservative influencers.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 21/07/2025
Nice look by the team @notion.com on how they approached making their centrally hosted MCP server (and why their first attempt to just map tools to API calls wasn't ideal) www.notion.com/blog/notions...
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Notion’s hosted MCP server: an inside look
Earlier this year, we got requests for a Notion MCP server that would let AI agents work directly with Notion workspaces. Here’s how we built it, from our initial open-source experiment to today’s hos...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 23/06/2025
Oldie but goodie in these times
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 22/06/2025
Apparently this is the stage of Big tech capitalism we're in now...
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Matthew Herper @matthewherper.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
This is incredibly tragic. His light was bright.
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Jason Moore @moorejh.bsky.social · 14/06/2025
I heard this morning that my informatics colleague Dr. Atul Butte passed after a battle with cancer. He was a giant in the field & inspired many of us over his distinguished career. He was a passionate champion of the power of big data & his impact on our field is immeasurable. RIP Atul & thanks.
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Charles Louis Richter @richterscale.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 05/06/2025
Meanwhile, on the other app...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 04/06/2025
Now when they say "can you hear the world's smallest violin playing just for you?", you have a reference point... Physicists create 'the world's smallest violin' using nanotechnology phys.org/news/2025-06...
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Physicists create 'the world's smallest violin' using nanotechnology
Physicists at Loughborough University have used cutting-edge nanotechnology to create what they believe may be "the world's smallest violin," which is small enough to fit within the width of a human h...
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 03/06/2025
🤣 Via @ericsuh.bsky.social
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 03/06/2025
Incredible -- first ever successful RCT for CAR-T therapy in solid tumors www.nature.com/articles/d41...
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Cancer-fighting CAR T cells show promising results for hard-to-treat tumours
Trial in China is one of the first times the immune therapy has worked against solid tumours.
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Scott Gottlieb, MD @scottgottliebmd.bsky.social · 01/06/2025
My Op Ed: President Trump often touted that his first administration approved more generic drugs than any in history. He had good reason to highlight the success. Recently, however, the FDA review team enabling these approvals was disbanded, and it may undo that historic progress. @statnews.com
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Benjamin Tseng @benjamintseng.com · 24/04/2025
No problem, I can totally build that for you
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Kai Ryssdal @kairyssdal.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Gosh if only Congress had thought of this before…
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Compound Interest | Chemistry infographics @compoundchem.com · 17/03/2025
Happy #StPatricksDay! ☘️ What makes the bubbles in a glass of Guinness fall, and what gives the beer its dark colour? This graphic in @cenmag.bsky.social has the answers: cen.acs.org/articles/93/... #ChemSky 🧪
Infographic on the chemistry of Guinness. It details how a mix of carbon dioxide and nitrogen is responsible for the bubbles, iso-alpha-acids are responsible for bitterness, and melanoidins are responsible for the beer's dark colour.
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Vicky Harp @vickyharp.com · 15/03/2025
Watching Jurassic Park, where a computer nerd with a debt problem and delusions of grandeur tears down all the safety systems, with no understanding of the consequences, so he can better facilitate his planned espionage and theft.
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