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Science Corner: Finding the Proteins of Theseus

March 8, 2023 by Andy Walsh No Comments

If DNA and protein sequences are the language of life, do large language models like similar to GPT-3 work for them too?

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Science Corner: Don’t It Make My Blue Whale Big

February 8, 2023 by Andy Walsh No Comments

What’s the first book of the Bible you think about when you think about whales? Maybe next time it will be Judges instead of Jonah.

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Science Corner: Methods Maketh Metaphor

July 3, 2019 by Andy Walsh 1 Comment

rainbow colored schematic of protein structure from NMR

If we cannot avoid metaphors, we can at least be transparent about how we use them and think critically to identify when they have reached the limits of usefulness.

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Filed Under: Science and Faith Tagged With: cell biology, gene expression, metaphor, proteins, science, science corner

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