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Put another way, I'm pretty sure a lot of Computer Science students are using ChatGPT to complete their coding assignments instead of actually doing the assignments themselves. If true, it's a huge problem. The process of learning debugging is critical to growing as an engineer.

Pretty sure i can think of counter examples… And not an only child either

This seems massively overhyped. "Creating the dire wolves called for making just 20 edits in 14 genes in the common gray wolf." In other words, it's not a dire wolf - it's a gray wolf modified to be more like a dire wolf. That's a cool achievement but they have not 'brought the

Yesterday, TIME broke news of a landmark advance in gene editing and de-extinction. This piece has proven divisive, and many criticisms I have seen are misplaced or incorrect. This 🧵 is intended to provide my take, based on my own expertise, and set the record straight.

My take? Pending their research manuscript(s), I would be surprised if only 15-20 genes differed between gray and dire wolves, so I suspect these wolves are much more gray wolf than dire wolf, even if they do show some anatomical "dire wolf features".

There are no easy answers in species delimitation. I really don't know what I think these animals should be called. I get why Colossal is just going with "dire wolf", even if I personally think that's an oversimplification and, to some degree, somewhat misleading.

A fossil Pleistocene-age hominin jawbone discovered in Taiwan has now been identified as belonging to a Denisovan, according to a new study in Science. The findings provide direct molecular evidence that Denisovans occupied diverse climates and offer new morphological insights

Based on this result, there’s hope that bioRxiv and the like will outcompete glam journals in another century?

I was explaining to my Ukrainian colleague the phrase ‘There’s no such thing as a free lunch’. She told me the equivalent in Ukrainian is ‘The only free cheese is in the mousetrap’ - which is so much better

What happened to Sarah Tishkoff’s account…?