🧵Recently started at @ArcInstitute to do a 6-month research fellowship. My last job was building React frontends and coding agents at Retool, so friends are understandably confused by my pivot to bio. This notion though that tech and bio are disparate is, I believe, misconceived, so I decided to write about it (link in thread).

Sep 28, 2025 · 10:57 PM UTC

Replying to @fchalissery
Welcome to the team 🫡
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love to see it 🔥
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Congrats, Francis!
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I have high hopes for AI and Biotech. Cheering you on!
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so happy for you, congrats!
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Some people say that if you look into genomes for too long, you can even see comments left by the Software Engineer. 😀
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Reminds me of Popper: "We are not students of some subject matter, but students of problems." —Conjectures and Refutations (1963)
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Interesting point on protein kinases. Biological motifs like negative and positive feedback loops seem to pop up at all levels of abstraction - transcription factors, endocrine signalling etc. or logic gates (what’s interesting is XOR isn’t really a thing in bio)
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This was a great read, thanks. Any advice for ML people interested in getting involved with comp bio - or public health.
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Hey congratulations!!! A bold, brave and nice move 👏🏼🤓 I’m also an engineer (electronic originally), but I became attracted by bio too and then I pursued the biomedical engineering path. Now I’m trying to enter in the longevity field, but it looks hard.Appreciate your example 😻
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