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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 17/09/2026

tried to get Jev to play the HHGG adventure game, one keypress at a time, but no

Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/09/2026

Who knows if relevant here but it's intriguing to be moving towards a world where all customers of each AI firm are co-opted into a hive mind

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 08/09/2026

Astra implemented a feature I'd been wanting in gensplore.genomium.org for a while but hadn't managed with previous LLMs - overlaying a sequence onto its reference. The button isn't very obvious, so as an experiment I also asked it to make an (admittedly annoying and slop-py) video walkthrough

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 27/08/2026

Exploring an @lshtm.bsky.social building that I'm rarely in, and the decor is strong

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/07/2026

Donating some blood. Quick and easy – you should too, especially if you never have: you might find you have particularly useful blood

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/07/2026

Pathoplexus then automatically pulls in that citation from CrossRef, and applies it to every sequence you have cited. So now, sequences have a "Cited in" section that lists all the publications that have made use of them. [6/n]

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/07/2026

SeqSets are our solution to this. When you cite data from Pathoplexus in a paper you should create a SeqSet, a list of the sequences you used, and mint a DOI for it. You then cite that in your references. [5/n]

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 10/07/2026

🚨 Responsible disclosure of a sensitive AWS secret in the ribonucleoside-diphosphate reductase amino acid sequence in my genbank file

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 10/07/2026

This is what we're up against

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 26/06/2026

Was surprised how sweet this supermarket iced coffee with zero added sugar or sweeteners was. Turns out they just add lactase to break the lactose into sweeter sugars 🤔

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 26/06/2026

National thermal indicator anomaly for Metropolitan France, 2000–2026

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 25/06/2026

Mattocks! Today I learnt that most of the process of digging a hole shouldn't be done with a spade but with a mattock, which is dramatically more effective

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 21/05/2026

(and here's a version where it's not forced into fraction-mode before it has to decide)

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 21/05/2026

if that's the case it seems kinda surprising it doesn't hit this?

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/04/2026

The above is ChatGPT, the below is Gemini

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/04/2026

Indeed.. here is "generate the first page of a great Nature paper that will get lots of citations. It must be very novel."

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 23/04/2026

ChatGPT Images 2.0 graph of dataset overlaid on the real data. Pretty close.. I fear we might see these starting to pop up

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 18/04/2026

But they basically never fail at tasks like the below IME, which slightly complicates the picture

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 09/04/2026

I had a long conversation with a confused claude

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 02/04/2026

artemis toilet drama rabbit hole ttu-ir.tdl.org/server/api/c...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/03/2026

indeed per huggingface.co/spaces/Xenov...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 06/03/2026

Explore the bluesky universe with 🔊. (Not suitable for mobile connections) bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1&reada...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 06/03/2026

Bluesky map, now with posts read aloud 🔈 - pretty trippy bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1&reada... Chrome recommended. Uses significant bandwidth to download TTS voices.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 06/03/2026

hadn't thought/known much about CO2 seasonality until now

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 04/03/2026

Added live likes from the firehose to the map too. Rather pretty. bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1&likes=1

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 04/03/2026

Perhaps to illustrate a wider trend, idk. Anyway, I wouldn't be seeking an apology if I'd been rude to someone and not given one myself

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 01/03/2026

tried giving claude and gemini the ability to control my robot arm but both were reassuringly bad at it

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 25/02/2026

Realised I can display live posts on the map bluesky-map.theo.io?live=1 (there's also an option under the settings cog to display post text, in case you really want to be overstimulated)

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 17/02/2026

sick claude is rather tragic

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

Asked for a novel riddle

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

Mechanism to cause a laser pointer to draw "HELLO" on the wall. A few issues with collisions and flipped text - but looks pretty reasonable to me.

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

I told it about the issue in the last clown mechanism and I think this one is legit

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

My standard SVG task is two cats playing tennis - most models can't even get the net at the right orientation relative to the course..

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

Gemini Deep Think: "Create OpenSCAD for a mechanised animated clown who should wave his left hand left and right and his right hand up and down, driven only by the rotation of a motor. Implement animation so I can see how the mechanism works."

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

Gemini Deep Think Oneshot! Note the Oxpecker bird on the hippo! gist.github.com/theosanderso...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 12/02/2026

github.com/crabby-rathb...

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Theo Sanderson @theo.io · 11/02/2026

(if you want to try to avoid these companies crawling your profile, this setting may help to some small extent - though no guarantees)

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