Artificial Intelligence
Last edited: August 8, 2025Artificial Intelligence is defined as the act of parameter estimation.
Toy example for Linear Regression
- Imagine if we want to predict the price of a choclate bar
- We feed in a bunch of bar weight vs. chocolate price data; that’s the training data
- Then, we come up with a model of the training data
- We then throw away the training data
Therefore, we can think of the model as a COMPRESSION of the training data; estimating parameters.
ASBMB
Last edited: August 8, 2025ASBMB2023 Index
Last edited: August 8, 20252023 annual meeting of ASBMB.
Talks
Molecular Engineering
| Christopher Barnes, Stanford | SARS-COV2 Structural Analysis | 10.1126/sciimmunol.ade0958 |
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| Emma J. Chory, Duke | Robotics-Assisted Directed Evolution | 10.1038/s41592-021-01348-4 |
| Daniel-Adriano Silva, Monod | De novo biosensors | 10.1038/s41586-021-03258-z |
Structure Determination and Machine Learning
| Sonya Hanson, Flatiron | cyro-EM + ensemble reweighting | 10.1073/pnas.1419276111 |
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| Celia Schiffer, UMass Med | Drug Resistance Analysis | 10.7554/eLife.77433 |
| Arvind Ramanathan, Argonne Lab | Models of Interaction Analysis | ?, see GenSLMs |
| Jason K Perry, Gilead | Structure of COVID Replication |
Protein Structure and Biophysics
ASCII
Last edited: August 8, 2025ASCII represents each char as an integer, its “ascii value”.
- Uppercase letters are sequentially numbered
- Lowercase letters are sequentially numbered
- Digits are sequentially numbered
- Lowercase letters are 32 more than their uppercases (which means its a single bit flip)
char upper = 'A'; // 65
char lower = 'a'; // 97
char zero = '0'; // 48