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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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evolarjun · 1790192734 · focus · HN ↗
It is odd (or maybe not) that they decided to publish a marketing whitepaper rather than a more traditional journal submission + preprint. The work does appear to be sufficient for a publication, though there's a good chance a reviewer will rip into them for some of the assertions they make, but given the topic I'm sure the paper will be accepted regardless.
The market for entry-level programmers has already declined, but at least they were somewhat in demand and made reasonable salaries. Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?
1. gavinray · 1790195247 · focus · HN ↗
  Did anyone read the blogpost? They did publish a pre-print:
  > Our work to understand the primary function of ARTs is ongoing. However, we think it is important to share such findings early, both to demonstrate Claude’s capabilities and to give the broader community insight into what we’re working on. We have released a pre-print (here) that discusses this in more detail.
  <a href="https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/22573675ada52a8ca8a97a1a4b4326b2f208a071.pdf" rel="nofollow">https://www-cdn.anthropic.com/22573675ada52a8ca8a97a1a4b4326...
  1. epihelix · 1790200653 · focus · HN ↗
    I just looked at it. I really hope they're not thinking of sending that to an actual bioinformatics, computational biology or molecular biology journal! So embarrassing...
    (I love how Anthropic boast about building a lab, but don't seem to realise that you have to test your hypothesis in the lab! Right now, all their "spectacular" assertions are untested and unproven.)
    I realise that this will only improve from here, but gods Anthropic has no idea about the biological sciences right now.
    dekhn · 1790203306 · focus · HN ↗
    Um. Take a look at the authors. Every single one of them is an expert in this field. They did test this in a lab.
    If you want to complain about things like this, it really helps to be specific. Given the author list, it's unlikely they made any truly spectacular errors (and also possible the system they studied is not interesting).
    irregularbowels · 1790204355 · focus · HN ↗
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