A wonderful video from @levimaaia.bsky.social that perfectly captures the excitement & passion of those attending & exhibiting at VCF SoCal last weekend. Thanks Levi! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y2E8ZW3iH9Y #vcfsocal #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing

My new YouTube video on "Tips for Diagnosis, Repair, & Modification of Vintage Computers". I will be giving this talk live next weekend at the Vintage Computer Festival SoCal https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P2zoKX9_G7A #retrocomputing #vintagecomputing #commodore #atari #apple #amiga #vcfsocal

We are accepting application through Jan 31 for our new PhD program in Health AI at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/graduate-school/phd-health-artificial-intelligence.html #artificialintelligence #bioinformatics #datascience #phd #phdchat #gradschool

Finishing up multiple grants for submission to the NIH black hole this week. This is the first time I have not felt hopeful about grants I am submitting. Sad. Regardless, must do my job. #nih

I love how companies continue to show me out of stock items in their advertisements. I repeat: Advertising AI stinks! The tech is there. Use it or pay me to fix it for you. #advertising #notrocketscience

What large language models know and what people think they know https://www.nature.com/articles/s42256-024-00976-7 #llms #artificialintelligence #evaluation

We are accepting application through Jan 31 for our new PhD program in Health AI at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, CA https://www.cedars-sinai.edu/education/graduate-school/phd-health-artificial-intelligence.html #artificialintelligence #bioinformatics #datascience #phd #phdchat #gradschool

Dementia risk, higher than thought, requires a national strategy: Policies and industries that promote healthy aging are imperative https://www.statnews.com/2025/01/18/dementia-risk-95-women-black-alzheimers-study/ #AlzheimersDisease #dementia #healthcare

The strain on scientific publishing https://direct.mit.edu/qss/article/5/4/823/124269/The-strain-on-scientific-publishing #academia #research #science #publishing #peerreview

AMIA 2025 Annual Symposium Call for Participation https://amia.org/education-events/amia-2025-annual-symposium/call-participation #informatics #bioinformatics #amia25

Epistatic hotspots organize antibody fitness landscape and boost evolvability https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39773024/ #epistasis

Really @TheRegister? I lived through this era & can say it was a lot more complex than that... https://www.theregister.com/2025/01/03/reevaluating_basics_legacy/ #BASIC #coding #retrocomputing #c64os

5 reasons the Raspberry Pi is still the king of hobbyist single-board computers https://www.xda-developers.com/5-reasons-raspberry-pi-is-king-of-sbcs #raspberrypi #sbc #computing

Should we still care if students remember to put semicolons at the end of their lines, or should we focus entirely on higher-order thinking? https://cacm.acm.org/blogcacm/assessment-in-computer-science-education-in-the-genai-era/ #compsci #coding #edchat #genai #llms #syntax

Word processing on the VIC-20? This makes me cringe as much I love the VIC. Regardless, there is a nice review of the different options https://techtinkering.com/articles/word-processors-on-the-commodore-vic-20/ #commodore #vic20 #retrocomputing #wordprocessing

Maybe just a little premature to design security systems for AI (i.e. LLMs)? Or is the implication that AI is as good as it is going to get so let's get it in place? https://spectrum.ieee.org/ai-mistakes-schneier #artificialintelligence #security

Have you played Atari today? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XMFy-Iw4CcA&t=28s

Have been grant writing this morning. A nice distraction from the fires burning around me. Will further the distraction with some retrocomputing fun later.

Infinigen is a procedural generator of 3D scenes https://infinigen.org/

Was able to get some grant writing done today despite the obvious distraction from being on call to evacuate