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Chemist (PhD, NYU '97), Bioinformatics mangler, Biomedical Informatics dabbler, Data artisan, R scribbler, Metalloprotein DB creator, former PHP/PEAR kludger.
#Rstats #OpenData #Science #BiomedicalInformatics #DataScience #DataVisualization #DataEngineering #PublicHealthInformatics #DataForGood
#dator
A good article on the #Claude #code #leak:
"The Snake That Ate Itself: What Claude Code’s Source Revealed About #AI #Engineering Culture"
'... The Uncomfortable Truth
The company that sells AI coding tools cannot build a quality product with its own AI coding tools...'
https://techtrenches.dev/p/the-snake-that-ate-itself-what-claude
"Who will maintain the #web when PHP’s veterans retire?"
... A new Perforce report finds PHP's #developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and #AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better ...
#TIL that, again, #Djikstra was a ahead of his time, saying that what we call #VibeCoding is flawed because a language is a less precise tool than a formal representation:
'On the foolishness of "natural language programming"' (late 1970s)
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~EWD/transcriptions/EWD06xx/EWD667.html
From Scientific American: "AI was supposed to save coders time. It may be doing the opposite"
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-developers-using-ai-are-working-longer-hours/
#TIL about an #RStats package made by a cool group from Univesity of #Chile to deal with #ICD10 and #ICD11 in #PublicHealth and #HealthInteroperability work:
A good article from #Nature: "How to design effective scientific figures"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-026-02466-9
From The Register:
"#NHS staff resist using #Palantir #software"
'...Staff reportedly cite #ethics concerns, #privacy worries, and doubt the platform adds much..
'
#Surveillance #SurveillanceCapitalism
https://www.theregister.com/2026/04/03/nhs_staff_against_palantir/?td=keepreading
From #SMBC:
https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/meaning-7
Hover text: "The worst part is the robot makes him use reddit 7 hours a day, because that's what past employees were doing in its training data."
From The Register: "Brit #mathematician lets #AI #agent loose with credit card – cue password #leaks, CAPTCHA #chaos and more"
From #Futurism: "The Horrible #Economics of #AI Are Starting to Come Crashing Down"
https://futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/economics-ai-tokens-crashing-down
The evaluation of #Anthropic #Mythos by #AISI #UK, does not seem to demonstrate the super-cracking ability mentioned elsewhere. It is noted its specific ability to chain attacks.
https://www.aisi.gov.uk/blog/our-evaluation-of-claude-mythos-previews-cyber-capabilities
#TIL about this good #IBM video explaining clearly and didactically what #AI technical debt means, its causes and impact:
"Alibaba’s Tongyi Lab Releases #VimRAG: a Multimodal #RAG #Framework that Uses a Memory #Graph to Navigate Massive Visual Contexts"
A very interesting paper from #Nature that discusses current trends and gives an outlook of future developments:
"Tracing the rise of #biomedical foundation #models"
#TIL about the new book by the #Internet #Archive: "Vanishing #Culture: A Report on Our Fragile Cultural Record (2026)"
An interesting podcast from #StackOverflow on #digital #sovereignty and #sovereign #AI.
"No country left behind with sovereign AI" https://stackoverflow.blog/2026/04/17/no-country-left-behind-with-sovereign-ai/
#TIL about the #Cisco #OpenSource tool: "#Model #Provenance Kit" https://github.com/cisco-ai-defense/model-provenance-kit
Tries to give a hand with tracking provenance as well as comparing #AI models.
A good take on #Dawkins suffering from #AIPsychosis thinking that #Claude is sentient:
"Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion"
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion
I have an unfounded theory that in #Peru we are low key training people to do complex estimations and take multidimensional decision, otherwise why have 35 different parties, and have to cast 5 distinct votes in today's #election: president, national senate, regional senate, deputies (congress representative for the #USA folks), and Andean Parliament. And then we got preferential votes.
The voting ballot was huge (see the models here https://eg2026.onpe.gob.pe/cedula/descarga-tu-cedula/ with made up parties).
Oncoming #Security #Webinar by #OAS (#OEA):
Take Control of Your #Digital Security: Introducing the Updated Gender-Responsive #Cybersecurity MOOC "Our Networks, Our Security"
https://oas-org.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_9qZ5uBG6Qlm8GE00H76_ww#/registration
From #Berkeley: "How We Broke Top #AI #Agent #Benchmarks: And What Comes Next"