Martin PROKS


Week 22 (25-30/05/2025)

👾 IT

  • Simon’s initial impression of Devstal from Mistral (link).
  • Namanyay provides very simple yet convincing argument about how to leverage the AI landscape in your day-to-day dev life. It’s not perfect, but it can be simplify some tasks, you just need to figure out which ones (link).
  • Cloudflare proposes HTTP message signature to simplify how to deal with ai bots/crawlers (link).
  • Oddysey introduced model which generates AI video with real-time interaction from user (link).
  • MinIO moves many features behind paywall minio/object-browser.
  • Nice tips & tricks on running LLM locally by Kiran (link).

🔬Science

  • FDA pushes initiative to replace animal models for pre-clinical studies by embracing organ-on-a chip or in silico modeling if it offers to be a viable alternative(link).
  • More bones found in the “River of Death” in Alberta, Canada provides great resource to study Pachyrhinosaurus and other dinosaurs (link).
  • New #podcast series A Coffee with CompBio (link)
  • Zeng et al., 2025 develops CellFM model using ERetNet paired with LoRA.
  • Tackling how to extract number of sequenced cells from papers using LLM by Svensson (link).
  • Sikkema et al., 2025 BiorXiv developed MapQC to estimate fitness of mapping between reference and query
    • Energy distance metric (E-distance) measures shift between two distributions (signal-to-noise ratio)
  • Internet Archive launches Youtube channel where they stream how they scan material using high-resolution camera, use automated software for cropping and OCR conversion and archive it afterward on microfiche cards (link).
  • Faster Github Actiosn from Blacksmith company with their transparency on security layers (link).
  • Once provide a phone number it will find its way to the interwebs (link).

🔧 Tools