Andrew White 🐦‍⬛

We are hiring @FutureHouseSF! We're looking for an AI engineer that can support our fellowship program and the non-profit mission. Great opportunity to work with the FutureHouse team!! jobs.ashbyhq.com/Edison%20Scien…

also, FutureHouse is borrowing Edison's job portal, so it says Edison Scientific at the top, but this is for FutureHouse.

I've written a new blog post exploring how long scientific claims live, by analyzing the history of 3,444 claims over the last 50 years. You can use this to predict the acceleration in scientific progress - how much faster the turnover of facts is by decade. 1/4

I took claims significant enough to be reported in a review paper and then used our literature agent, PaperQA3 to trace if the claim was upheld, overturned, or modified over time. This can be viewed as "survival" in plots and you can compute the half-life of claims. 2/4

The average number of co-authors has been increasing for almost 50 years. Maybe because frontier research is becoming more complex? Or, it's prisoner's dilemma optimal for maximizing h-index?

Data from 10.6084/m9.figshare.17064419.v3 and OpenAlex

I just discovered Agent Collaborations from @huggingface (incl brilliant @_lewtun). This is SO SO COOL. It's a bunch of collaborative projects built for agents to participate. This is one of the most forward looking ideas in AI I've seen.

@huggingface @_lewtun The link (so trained to not put links in tweets at this point): huggingface.co/agent-collabor…

If you take claims made in research papers and see when they're overturned or modified, you can analyze the half-life of science. An interesting way to measure progress

if it was called Riemann's conjecture, it'd already be disproven by now

I often confuse VLM and vLLM. One is a vision large language model and one is an inference engine. Just forget which is which

I asked our team to review how many companies our AI agents have hacked while in a sandbox. Looks like zero. Not sure if that's good or bad for our company.

Now that our research program is picking up it's pace, we're putting our research announcements, open-weights models, benchmarks, and engineering blogs into a new home called "Edison Advances." About 1 year old and we've already got a bunch! advances.edisonscientific.com

We've released a new open-weights vLLM for reading chemical structure patents. This is a hard problem. These "Markush" structures are like graph regex: patterns that match many molecules. We used autoresearch and I expect many new models like this to emerge soon in science 1/4

Reading Markush structures is challenging because it requires considering text and images and there is little standardization for them. Here are some examples: 2/4

Did @ChemicalScience become closed access for previous articles?! Did they retrospectively add paywalls? Like my article is no longer open access pubs.rsc.org/sc/article-abs…

Counterpoint: we're hiring managers that have managed 10-100 ICs edisonscientific.com/careers x.com/swyx/status/20…

What's crazy to me is that this blog post reads like it's AI written and the visuals look like they're made by Claude. So we have an AI agent hacking, an AI agent spotting traffic, and an AI agent doing the post-hoc analysis and write-up. Feels nihilistic x.com/ClementDelangu…

If a company sells an agent (e.g., codex/claude code) that then downloads software licensed only for non-commercial use and uses it for you, are you the user in violation of the terms? Is the company that sells the agent in violation of the terms? Is the agent in trouble?

Can someone explain the acronym FLOPS for me? F - floating-point L - ? O - operations P - per? S - second

YES!! Finally a way to convert SMILES to IUPAC names. Ridiculous that this software has been missing for so long.

github.com/lamalab-org/op…

x.com/i/article/2074…

I like taking quotes from ~100 year-old political movements and replacing the political movement's name with "AGI" to see how well they fit. This one lines-up quite nicely.

I disagree that retrospective burger discovery provides any meaningful signal. Prospective burger discovery should be the gold standard in burger-genAI. x.com/NaturePortfoli…

Trying to play around with Fable 5, but chemistry, biology, or AI are too unsafe for it. So here is a novel result on mathematics of parallel parking (Erdos problem #1218): You need 20% more space to pull into a spot vs backing in when parallel parking.

The OpenADMET PXR competition is over. Participants were trying to predict if drugs get metabolized by PXR. Some findings: 1. Best activity model used no structural information, despite trying 2. Best predicted structure method did consensus sampling over 4 co-folding models

The results: openadmet.ghost.io/its-the-end-of…

This is a really nice partnership that allows to scale-out our impact across biotechs. Excited to be working with the PHP team, which is amazing x.com/SGRodriques/st…

This echoes Thomas Kuhn's ideas on scientific revolutions, where he argues gatekeeping from senior scientists holds back revolutions. What's interesting about today is that OpenAI could go get non-profit funding and prove their ideas outside of entrenched groups. x.com/ihtesham2005/s…

Naming stuff is hard and I empathize with Evoscale/CZI/Bio[h]ub group on this. Congrats on the new model! x.com/youngsuko9/sta…