Alice Walsh: What I am reading: Q1 2024

Alice Walsh

Keeping up with biotech, tech, and techbio is exhausting. It seems like every other person has a substack.

Here are articles or newsletters that have gone around in Q1 2024 that I have found valuable. I would love some new recommendations!

General newsletters or blogs:

Bitsinbio newsletter: https://bitsinbio.substack.com/
Abigail Haddad’s substack on LLMs: https://presentofcoding.substack.com/
Vicki Boykis is always a good read: https://vickiboykis.com/
Decoding bio is from a group of investors: https://www.decodingbio.com/
Waseem Daher, startup real talk: https://waseem.substack.com/

Single posts or articles that were interesting:

Selling AI Products and Services to Big Pharma (Brandon White)
Rules of ML (Martin Zinkevich):
Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering (note: the right questions are the hard - part, not the right solutions)
An Incomplete History of Selventa and the Biological Expression Language (BEL) (Charles Tapley - Hoyt)
- I don’t know how I found this, but I remember Selventa, and this is fascinating.
Some questions about biotech that I find interesting (Alex Telford)
A deep profile of gene expression across 18 human cancers (Wei Qiu et al.)
- I like latent variables
No installation required: how WebAssembly is changing scientific computing (By Jeffrey M. Perkel)

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Walsh (2024, April 26). Alice Walsh: What I am reading: Q1 2024. Retrieved from https://awalsh17.github.io/posts/2024-04-26-what-i-am-reading-q1-2024/

BibTeX citation

@misc{walsh2024what,
  author = {Walsh, Alice},
  title = {Alice Walsh: What I am reading: Q1 2024},
  url = {https://awalsh17.github.io/posts/2024-04-26-what-i-am-reading-q1-2024/},
  year = {2024}
}