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Hank Green took some heat recently for using artificial intelligence in his work. Vanity Fair framed the controversy around the anger of some fans who believed his use of AI crossed a line between technological assistance and creative authenticity. One Hank would like to stand up for another. The criticism raises a larger question that Read More “Hank Green, AI, and the Economics of Authenticity”
Over the past several years I put together a set of lecture notes for teaching bioinformatics, pairing classic Python/BioPython methods with AI-assisted workflows so students could see both approaches side by side. I’ve cleaned them up and organized them into a free 14-chapter book: Bioinformatics with AI: A Modern Introduction. It moves from the basics Read More “Bioinformatics with AI: A Modern Introduction”
The question usually arrives near the end of the interview, after the pleasantries are spent and the résumé has been reviewed twice. Have you ever been convicted of a crime? The applicant already knows the choreography. Sometimes the interviewer glances back down at the page, suddenly hunting for a reason to stop. Sometimes the tone Read More “Second-Chance Saints”
For years, teaching bioinformatics meant building the same lecture over and over: here is the biological concept, here is the Python script that operationalizes it, here is what a student needs to understand before either one makes sense. Over time those notes accumulated into something larger than any single course, a full walk through computational Read More “Notes From the Classroom, Now Free to Everyone”
Good stories have a beginning, a middle, and an end. Sports stories are supposed to simplify that further still, handing us a winner and a loser, a hero and a villain. Somebody raises the trophy. Somebody drops the ball. Everybody knows whom to cheer and whom to blame. This story refuses to cooperate. Late on Read More “The Team That Tried Too Hard to Win”
Antoinette Tuff was sitting in the front office of Ronald E. McNair Discovery Learning Academy when a young man carrying an assault rifle entered the school. Nearly 900 children were inside. Tuff was not the principal. She was not a police officer, counselor, or trained hostage negotiator. She was the school’s bookkeeper, one of those Read More “The Person Who Knows Where Everything Is”