Rachel Thomas's Recent LinkedIn Posts

Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature (a very well-regarded publication). Your paper will be…

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of complex AI-generated code. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas of how much of their code must be AI-generated... yet results are far from what was promised. To understand what is going wrong, it is he…

As data scientists, Jeremy Howard and I have done our best to look at the data around covid-19, and what it means to you and your community. Our view: it is appropriate to be very concerned, and significantly change your lifestyle, right now. Epidemiologists are experts in studying the spread and impact of disease…

Deep learning is glamorous and highly rewarded. If you train and evaluate a Transformer (a state-of-the-art language model) on a dataset of 22 million enzymes and then use it to predict the function of 450 unknown enzymes, you can publish your results in Nature (a very well-regarded publication). Your paper will be…

Last year, as the public backlash against AI was growing stronger (and as many of my friends were becoming more fervently anti-AI), I decided to return to an increasingly hated field. Why? I agree there is a lot that is terrible about AI.  It is degrading the blogging ecosystem, my email inbox, the schools my friend…

Vibe coding is the creation of large quantities of complex AI-generated code. Executives push lay-offs claiming AI can handle the work. Managers pressure employees to meet quotas of how much of their code must be AI-generated... yet results are far from what was promised. To understand what is going wrong, it is he…