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Vasco Brazão 🏳️‍🌈
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Recovering behavioral scientist, posing as a statistical consultant. Applied stats #RStats, neurodiversity, learning Ukrainian, writing things
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Alphafold is a substitute for a theory in a way that we should pay attention to. It's a model that does what we'd want a theory to do reasonably well (predict protein structure from the amino acid sequence), which reduces the "marginal utility" that an actual scientific theory would have to capital
November 17, 2025 at 5:45 PM
Holy moly that's awesome
November 16, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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It shows how vaccines that educate the immune system against one enemy may inadvertently help it fight others. For humanity, that implies that what is learned during a worldwide health crisis may go on to save lives in ways unforeseen.
November 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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regardless of their tumor type. If it holds up in clinical trials, this discovery could fundamentally change the way cancer is treated everywhere. By linking mRNA vaccines to existing immunotherapies, doctors might be able to strengthen their patients' immune defenses without having to use
November 14, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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while I am very skeptical of "AI"-hype and don't expect tech giants to have anyone's best interest in mind, I do think we did some things well in this project, so keep these three things in mind >
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
watching all the talks in this important symposium

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November 14, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Thank you, will explore!
November 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
See parallel thread for some actions

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Will try to gather in this thread some steps I'm taking to put me in a better position to be an effective "AI" critic at my EdTech company. See quoted thread for a bit of context
calling all #AI haters (complimentary): I participated in a project evaluating LLM-supported math tutoring and would love some criticism/references/whatever you've got that might influence follow-up projects.

technical report here (abstract in picture): storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-med...
November 14, 2025 at 11:19 AM
Just followed a bunch more people thanks to the thread below, many thanks to @homebrewandhacking.bsky.social for starting this and @olivia.science and @wolvendamien.bsky.social for adding many names

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November 14, 2025 at 11:18 AM
outcomes, ensuring that whatever system we put out there does in fact improve children’s maths knowledge.

So all in all I'm cautiously proud of this experiment and trying to take the time before whatever is next to sharpen my criticisms and be able to advocate for ethics as much as possible. Help!
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM
the tutoring session (they could!) and whether there was any evidence of learning transfer in the form of better outcomes on the very next diagnostic question in a quiz (there was!). Eventually, and as Eedi have done many times before, we expect to run evaluations with out-of-product learning >
November 13, 2025 at 5:53 PM