Mikail Khona

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Here is a curated collection of blogs and posts that have stuck with me

Machine learning for science

Discovering a universal language of sugar molecules on cellular surfaces using machine learning

Sequence basis of transcription initiation in the human genome

Science for machine learning

How to make the Universe think for us

Science and research

The importance of stupidity in scientific research

“A book I love is “Proofs and Refutations” (Imre Lakatos). A big point of that book is that people tend to think of definitions & categories as starting points, from which we derive theorems or scientific results about the world. But the process really works the other way round. Definitions and categories are things which emerge after we’ve understood phenomena in the world, and as a consequence of that understanding. And so while it’s worth making very tentative definitions, it’s a mistake to do so too prematurely, or to hold too strongly to them. Those tentative definitions are, at best, scaffolding to help arrive at an understanding, which may eventually result in good definitions.” - Michael Nielsen’s Blog

Bats and Dolphins evolved echolocation in the same way - This is an amazing example of evolution acting on the genome of two vastly different species, with different ecological niches but arriving at the same solution at the genetic level.

General

The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck - my takeaways

How do Video Games Stay in Sync? An Intro to the Fascinating Networking of Real Time Games.

Visualizing millions of prime numbers with UMAP

Non-monotonic dynamics of damming a river