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Stoic wisdom advocates practice of premeditatio malorum — the continuous visualization of worst-case scenarios.

Hadamard Conjugation On the wikipedia page for the Hadamard-Walsh Transform, you’ll find a near incomprehensible section the transform’s application in mollecular phylogenetics.

This post is about a technical detail of boundary resetting for Selective State Space Models (S6) like Mamba.

My work in the past few years has focused on translation of methods underlying the remarkable advances in AI and NLP to biological sequence design problems.

Originally published on wordpress In my last two blog posts, I discussed how I assembled and configured a distributed computing cluster using some old laptops and Raspberry Pis.

Originally published on wordpress When we left off at part 1, we had ArchLinux installed on each of the computers in the cluster, and each is also running an SSH server so that is can be accessed remotely.

Originally published on wordpress My family uses their laptops a lot, and they tend to get them replaced after several years.