Larry Hunter
@ProfLHunter
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Knowledge-based biomedical data science, AI for discovery in molecular biomedicine, computational bioethics. Theory of mattering. @proflhunter.bsky.social
Kailua Kona, HI
Joined July 2012
Go Nell!
Big congratulations to @nellbsalzman of @chicagotribune as the winner of our #DorothyStorckAward for her great coverage of immigrant communities in Chicago. “Journalism is more important now than ever before”- Nell Salzman #CJA #CJA85 #ChiJournoAwards
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RT @kstsosie: This was a historic moment. The largest convening of #Indigenous geneticists, data scientists, physicians to include other na…
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Are you a recent Ph.D. (or about to finish) interested in doing a postdoc with me at the University of Chicago? This program might be just the ticket. Applications due Dec 18.
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RT @AshleyGWinter: Without my abortion I wouldn't be the person, wife, mother, and physician I am today. I am voting because every woman de…
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RT @EricTopol: Recognizing the women scientists who laid the groundwork for recent #AI @NobelPrize in Chemistry and Physics —Helen Berman,…
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RT @senseaboutsci: "Most perpetrators of scientific misconduct... face little in the way of consequences, while those... who seek to expose…
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RT @statesdj: Let's also give credit to Tom Koetzel who established the PDB and ran it for decades, the DOE Brookhaven Nation Laboratory th…
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RT @AMartinezArias: “However clever you think cells are, they are almost always far cleverer” Lewis Wolpert #CellsRUs #NotInTheGenes https:…
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Subtle but serious damage from using AI tools. Be careful out there!
I'm talking at a conference later this year (on UX+AI). I just saw an ad for the conference with my photo and was like, wait, that doesn't look right. Is my bra showing in my profile pic and I've never noticed...? That's weird. I open my original photo. No bra showing. I put the two photos side by side and I'm like WTF... Someone edited my photo to unbutton my blouse and reveal a made-up hint of a bra or something else underneath. 🤨 Immediately, I email the conference host. (FYI he is a great, respectable guy with 5 kids at home.) He is super apologetic and immediately looks into the issue. He quickly reports back that the woman running their social media used a cropped square image from their website. She needed it to be more vertical, so she used an AI expand image tool to make the photo taller. AI invented the bottom part of the image (in which it believed that women's shirts should be unbuttoned further, with some tension around the buttons, and revealing a little hint of something underneath). 🤯 — FYI the conference organizers were super apologetic and took down all of the content with that photo.
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Ed Yong has such a great heart, mind, and soul. And he shares them so well.
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RT @OpenTargets: Happy 10th birthday Open Targets! 🎉 Thank you to everyone who has worked to make Open Targets what it is today. Here's t…
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"I am particularly proud of one of my students who fired Sam Altman."
Lovely to hear @geoffreyhinton paying tribute to colleagues and students, but I wasn't expecting this ... he's taking no prisoners (and why should he)
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Now there's a good application!
🤖 - Talking with chatbots reduces faith in conspiracy theories • After chat with generative AI that offers facts, many people drop conspiracy views on wide range of topics • Chats decrease average belief in conspiracies by 20%, with effects lasting for at least two months
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@RoxanaDaneshjou I am so sorry that happened to you. Thanks for sharing your story publicly. I hope your telling it helps motivate political change, and helps people travel (or not) safely.
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Sad to hear the great David Burnham died. In addition to his spectacular reporting, he founded the Transactional Records Access Clearinghouse, one of the first great sources of open data. A true hero.
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