Dan Widmaier 🧬/acc
@dwidmaier
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Biology is the most powerful technology on Earth. I work on tapping billions of years of biology to help us win. Opinions my own, and probably wrong
San Francisco
Joined February 2008
@srikosuri 🙏 excited to see so many responses and spreading for help. Thoughts are with your daughter and your family
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RT @srikosuri: It’s been a tough few weeks. My 10yo daughter was diagnosed with a very rare, aggressive cancer called interdigitating dendr…
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RT @Geneticdesigner: Pillar VC just launched a new mechanism to raise money for ideas to develop companies. Open to undergraduates throug…
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RT @pmarca: Picture CCP-controlled Chinese AI running the world. How does that make you feel?
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Also you have a way with words my friend when making illustrations. “…a procedure that was roughly as effective as banging on a TV to fix the cable connection.” 1. Likening this to ♥️ surgery made me chuckle 2. This will age poorly. Generation Zoomer will never know the joy of hitting an analog device and somehow magically fixing it
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@GaurabC True dat. I have found a very strong pull to robust and matured technologies as primitives to build on
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Find this to be true, and until the biology ecosystem builds abstractions that allow real building at this age it will continue to languish compared to what could be. We still require people to train until they are 30 before they really start.
judging an engineer by age is BS - Linus Torvalds wrote Linux at 21 - Steve Wozniak built Apple I at 25 - Palmer Luckey created Oculus VR at 20 - Vitalik Buterin designed Ethereum at 19 - Mark Zuckerberg coded Facebook at 19 Looking back, I realize that 18-25 is the peak time. "The young do not know enough to be prudent, and therefore they attempt the impossible – and achieve it, generation after generation."
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