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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 23/05/2025

I found the most fucked imaginable use case of AI for PhD holders #ImpostorSyndrome

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

Died *with* hantavirus, not *of* hantavirus

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 07/03/2025

More like Sam Bankman Freed amirite

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Hopping into my way back machine for this gem from shared grad student housing, once upon a time

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srrrse @without.boats · 05/03/2025

Dijkstra‘s remains the correct take on AI

“Finally, to correct the possible impression that the inability to face radical novelty is confined to the industrial world, let me offer you an explanation of the -at least American- popularity of Artificial Intelligence. One would expect people to feel threatened by the “giant brains” or “machines that think.” Tin fact, the frightening computer becomes less frightening if it is used only to simulate a familiar non-computer. I am sure that this explanation will remain controversial for quite some time, for Artificial Intelligence as mimicking the human mind prefers to view itself as at the front lined whereas my explanation relegates it to the rear guard. (The effort of using machines to mimic the human mind has always struck me as rather silly: I’d rather use them to mimic something better.)” -EWD

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Google just randomly showing this to me in search results. What a beautiful, necessary feature. And congrats to Gene and Jeff! 👑

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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 24/02/2025

I'm gonna remind people that I feel pretty strongly that if you bought one of my ebooks legitimately, then you own the book and however you secure that ownership is fine by me mashable.com/article/how-...

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How to download your Kindle books while Amazon still allows it

After Feb. 26, Amazon is doing away with its Kindle "download and transfer via USB" option.

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Today was my favorite lecture of the semester because I got to show this video of the clock game on The Price is Right www.youtube.com/watch?v=oc9H...

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The Price is Right - Bad Game of 'Clock Game'

YouTube video by boogyman10o1

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Nothing says "I am not working right now and this is a waste of my and your time" quite like sending a weekly summary email

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Universities are too expensive for students, they've lost a focus on the communities they inhabit, they employ too many executivess who don't add any value, etc. But it's easier for universities to slow PhD admissions than incorporate real systemic change. Fewer PhDs means America loses innovation

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

In this teaching life you get to choose: post old memes no one gets, or steal from the greats?

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

How the hell am I gonna feed my kids when my great great grandfather's $3.63 per month social security check (which he earned from 40 hard years of clubbing baby seals) gets stopped?

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 07/02/2025

We are discovering very quickly which private organizations are led by cowards. That's the thing about cowards, they panic and show you who they are very quickly

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

A revelation about working in academia is that the angriest, most irritated people are also the kindest, truest of heart people you will encounter. What does that tell you?

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Niema Moshiri @niema.net · 04/02/2025

Inspired by @charlesgaba.com's Herculean effort to post all Wayback URLs from the CDC website (including pages that have recently been deleted), I built this GitHub repo to share Wayback links to all CDC website pages, and will add more websites when I get a chance github.com/Niema-Lab/Go...

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GitHub - Niema-Lab/Government-Wayback: Unofficial repository storing links to Wayback Machine for government pages

Unofficial repository storing links to Wayback Machine for government pages - Niema-Lab/Government-Wayback

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

The era where significant parts of America tried to uplift people who hadn't been born into opportunity was brief, but it was hopeful. Frankly I can't believe it happened at all

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

1. Reckoner 2. Paranoid android 3. Pyramid song 4. Fake plastic trees 5. True love waits Subject to revision

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I, for one, dream of a country in which people reach (underpaid) roles in (critical) governmental services by merit alone (and then take a severance offer and resign leaving that role understaffed)

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

We built Rosalind, the Bioinformatics Algorithms project, and the Biological Modeling online course

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 27/01/2025

Say what you will about AI, but we just had an era in which our smartest quantitative minds spent their time training bots to sell ads to other bots. That era was extremely annoying and boring. Like if smart kids all wanted to do accounting for some reason

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

Using ChatGPT makes me smarter every day

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 22/01/2025

I can't tell whether the mathematician side of me or the biology side of me is more offended by these definitions

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 14/01/2025

Looking at a professor's YouTube suggestions when that professor shows a video in class is literal violence

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Misinformation works. Why? People love misinformation. Information is boring, cold, concrete. It tells you a lot of stuff you don't want to think about (e.g., human existence is mostly meaningless). But misinformation ... misinformation is imaginative, fun, and makes you matter.

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

Crocs: for when you've given up completely

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 31/12/2024

It is I, the random arbiter on the Internet who informs you that the TV show you like a lot "has not aged well"

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

They're making Luigi a terrorist because the health insurance industry has become so ingrained in the US government that it functionally *is* the US government. Murdering a healthcare CEO equivalent to murdering the director of the FBI or a member of Congress

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 17/12/2024

I used to talk to students about the prospect of using pig organs for transplants as something from a utopian future. And now it is a reality of science

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

The NIH drama is poppin off now fr fr

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Me when I looked up at the night sky for the first time as a grown adult, discovered stars, and thought they were drones

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Barry B. @justbarryb.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Worthless (and somewhat terrifying) factoid of the Day: Neutron stars are so dense that if you dropped a gummy bear from one meter away it would hit the surface in a microsecond with the force of 1,000 nuclear bombs.

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 14/12/2024

Me in a past life. Now I look at this and it makes my body hurt to think about getting in this position

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Vaughn Cooper @vscooper.micropopbio.org · 12/12/2024

I’m proud to join more than 30 colleagues today in sharing our analysis of potential risks from “mirror life”. We summarize our findings in a @science.org article, and in greater detail in a 300pg technical report: Article: www.science.org/doi/10.1126/... Report: purl.stanford.edu/cv716pj4036

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Finding a PhD advisor who just happened to have funding from HHMI for educational projects that he basically wasn't using. And being in a relatively new field at a time when there were so few educational resources online that anyone who took the time to make one would probably succeed.

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Ways my students can make me feel like my job has been worth it, ranked 1. Take me out for an enchilada dinner 2. Give me half of any money they'd consider donating to the university and then give the other half to charity 3. Thank you note

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

My old school buddy Chris finished an adult literacy program. He advanced his reading ability by two levels so he can take community college classes. I am so proud of him 🥹😭

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

I love how the snow swirls around this corner of our computer science building

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

Help! Is there something on my back? It feels like there is something on my back

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Phillip Compeau @phillipcompeau.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

60 year old lady who orders an airplane coffee at 11 PM >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

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