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Trailmix: record and transcribe webinars and meetings locally on your Mac
I built a Mac app that records and transcribes web events giving you a diarized transcript along with video and audio-only recordings. Everything stays…
Aug 8
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Stephen D. Turner
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pdfdown: in-browser PDF to markdown
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Aug 3
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Stephen D. Turner
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July 2026
July 2026 Links
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Jul 30
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Stephen D. Turner
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Screening for Function, not just Sequence
A proposed successor to IARPA's FunGCAT program
Jul 27
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Stephen D. Turner
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ARPA-H 101
Primers on how ARPA-H (and other ARPAs) are different than your typical NIH/NSF research programs and proposals
Jul 24
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Stephen D. Turner
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Containers Rot Too
What happens when you try to rebuild containerized bioinformatics tools from five years of software papers
Jul 23
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Stephen D. Turner
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Prompt injection defenses open a biosecurity gap
The low-authority treatment of external content that helps LLMs resist hijacking with prompt injection also defeats biosecurity warnings built into…
Jul 21
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Stephen D. Turner
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Benchmarking AI Biosecurity Refusals
Refusal ≠ safety. What 3 recent evals reveal about risk discrimination, over-refusal, and concealed hazards Bonus: we could do some interesting economic…
Jul 20
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Stephen D. Turner
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AI Dry July: Aborted
Reflections on trying to go a month without AI. I made it two weeks (sort of). 5.2k words, 23 minutes reading time.
Jul 18
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Stephen D. Turner
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How to SNIFF out Good Scientific Software
New PLOS Computational Biology paper: "Ten Quick Tips to SNIFF Out Sustainable and Secure Scientific Software"
Jul 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Turn new data into Quarto reports automatically
The {watcher} R package monitors your filesystem and run arbitrary code when files change. You can use this to automate things like creating…
Jul 15
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Stephen D. Turner
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Closing my tabs, July 10, 2026
Off switches for dual-use knowledge, the PhD admissions drop, a Brown cheating mess, the end of reading, AI labs at the bench, and planning for a "Bio…
Jul 10
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Stephen D. Turner
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