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I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

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I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

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I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

8mo

Connor B

I work somewhere between ML, physics, materials science, and information theory. UChicago->MIT PhD

I write mainly on Substack: https://bosoncutter.substack.com/

What would it take for AI to discover penicillin?

At the end of May, I attended the SciFM26 conference hosted at UChicago which had many speakers discussing agentic science and the future of AI+Science. This piece will attempt to capture the most interesting discussions I had about the future of AI+Science. Suppose you have a cutting edge autonomous lab...

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Effective Altruism will be unbundled

From the end of high school to after my sophomore year of college, I considered myself an effective altruist. I was on the board of my college EA club, ran an EA intro fellowship, and went to EA retreats. I was vegetarian, regularly donated to GiveWell, and generally tried to...

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The AlphaFold moment for materials is not any time soon

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