Why haven't biologists cured cancer?(writingruxandrabio.com)

64 points by zdw 2 years ago | 67 comments

"AI will cure cancer" misunderstands both AI and medicine(rachel.fast.ai)

113 points by pratnala 2 years ago | 117 comments

How Terry Tao became an evangelist for AI in math(quantamagazine.org)

144 points by Tomte 4 months ago | 127 comments

Mathematics is hard for mathematicians to understand too(science.org)

88 points by mmaaz 11 months ago | 84 comments

Terence Tao makes progress on the Collatz conjecture (2019)(quantamagazine.org)

61 points by yamrzou 3 years ago | 39 comments

Use Prolog to improve LLM's reasoning(shchegrikovich.substack.com)

343 points by shchegrikovich 2 years ago | 122 comments

Substack post arguing that having LLMs generate Prolog code can improve their reasoning, given the limits of autoregressive transformer generation.

Things to know when you get cancer(jjmaxwell4.com)

1850 points by jjmaxwell4 12 days ago | 442 comments

A personal blog post by someone diagnosed with oral squamous cell carcinoma in 2026, listing practical lessons learned about navigating cancer care.

Scientist treated her own cancer with viruses she grew in the lab(nature.com)

570 points by dataminer 1 year ago | 198 comments

Nature news article about virologist Beata Halassy, who treated her own breast cancer with lab-grown oncolytic viruses, and researchers' warnings against copying her.

The AI Race Just Got Awkward(insufferable.dev)

300 points by allisdust 26 days ago | 269 comments

A blog post arguing about the Western vs. Chinese AI lab race, discussing Anthropic's claims that Chinese labs are distilling its models.

We’re secretly winning the war on cancer(vox.com)

365 points by lr0 1 year ago | 161 comments

Vox Future Perfect article by Bryan Walsh arguing that falling cancer death rates reflect quiet advances like reduced smoking and immunotherapy.

Scientists Untangle the Biology of an 'Undruggable' Cancer Gene(nytimes.com)

4 points by gumby 24 days ago | 2 comments

New York Times article on scientists working out the biology of a cancer gene long considered undruggable; the capture shows only a captcha page.

CDC orders mass retraction and revision of submitted research(insidemedicine.substack.com)

748 points by KittenInABox 1 year ago | 513 comments

Inside Medicine Substack post by Jeremy Faust reporting that the CDC ordered retraction or revision of submitted manuscripts containing banned terms like gender and LGBT.