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My First Look at Claude Code
Not behind, but at the forefront: On feeling overwhelmed by AI progress, and why that means you're exactly where you need to be.
 • Stephen Turner
Weekly Recap (January 9, 2026)
The science of responsible innovation, rv (uv for R), just quit, R updates (R Data Scientist, R Works), 5 things in biosecurity, why benchmarking is…
 • Stephen Turner
Paired Ends Wrapped: Top 10 Posts From 2025
R + AI, uv, RAG+Zotero, Quarto books, Codex in Positron, Positron assistant & copilot, academia to biotech, RAG in R with ragnar, genome engineering…
 • Stephen Turner
Weekly Recap (January 2, 2026)
NSF reorg, Science in 2050, 2025 LLM recap, R+Python, R Data Scientist, virtual cells, genomics in 2026, Claude Code course, AI and labor, how uv got so…
 • Stephen Turner
Staying Current in Data Science and Computational Biology: 2026 Edition
Part 3 in a series of posts going back 14 years
 • Stephen Turner

December 2025

I Like Writing Code
On finding joy in slow, imperfect code in an age of copilots, agents, and chatbots. 1.2k words, 5 min reading time.
 • Stephen Turner
Quoting Sal Khan
AI creates an education challenge, not just a job crisis. We haven't built systems to help people to continue learning and connect them to new…
 • Stephen Turner
The AI Attribution Error
If an AI produces something useful it's because of your own skill in model choice, prompting, and steering. If not, it's because the model is a useless…
 • Stephen Turner
Weekly Recap (December 24, 2025)
R updates (R Data Scientist, R Weekly), AI accelerating wet lab bio research, Docker hardened images, LLMs in review, machinal bypass, science funding…
 • Stephen Turner
Spiritual Bypass, but with GPUs
The "Machinal Bypass," when AI becomes a shortcut around the work that makes us human, and why some tasks should feel a little hard.
 • Stephen Turner
Weekly Recap (December 19, 2025)
Writing better code without AI, AI in peer review, local LLMs, Biothreat Benchmark Generation, R updates (R Data Scientist, RWeekly, R Works…
Biotech policy is getting attention on the Hill
Biotech policy: Recent policy discussions echo NSCEB recommendations across investment, defense, and data.
 • Stephen Turner
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