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Toby M.

@thelatentspace.bsky.social
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M.D. turned engineer/data scientist, AI realist. Interests include genetics, neuroscience, urbanism, climbing, and cooking. 📍SF

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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
fun with visualizing AlphaGenome AVI scores on PDB structures via molecular nodes in blender 🧬 #AlphaGenome #MolecularNodes #blender #bioinformatics
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
Maybe instead of “struck by car” would could say “killed by driver.” Other articles phrase it as “cyclist dies in crash,” which is 5x worse. @bostonglobe.com @urbantruth.bsky.social
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Boston transportation planner fatally struck by car near Roxbury Crossing, family says - The Boston Globe
Louisa Gag, 36, “was a dedicated public servant to the City of Boston and passionately advocated for safer streets,” her sister said.
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 25/06/2026
I liked this classic @nytimes.com plot recreated in the @observablehq.com gallery, so I added COVID (2020) and the Iran war (2026) Sources: U.S. EIA, FHWA, U.S. Census Bureau. #DataViz #D3js #DataJournalism #EconSky
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
meanwhile, claude followed a branching path to get far closer to the money in a third of the questions (albeit with free text inputs), and then gave me both the labels I'd asked for, and a list of writers/economists/politicians most closely aligned with my ideas.
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
questions like these exploit meaningless fault lines instead of probing the true underlying political distribution. how should balance individuals's interests vs. the collective good? how should power be concentrated, checked, used? I get the need for standardization and accessibility, but yeesh
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
"Would you prefer smaller or larger government?" smaller or larger than what? "How important is it for the U.S. to be the only military superpower?" that's not even remotely realistic. "Is regulation of businesses good or bad?" ...
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Toby M. @thelatentspace.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
it's amazing how much better LLMs are at political typing than fixed questionnaires like this one from @pewresearch.org. www.pewresearch.org/politics/qui...
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Political Typology 2026
Take our quiz to find out which one of our nine political typology groups is your best match.
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