Andrew White
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first heard Jan 2026
last heard 28 Jan
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You know, like there was a time when we used um something called tiling trees.
And tiling trees like a literal brute force method invented by Ed Boyden, Sam's PhD advisor.
And basically the idea is okay, I want to like accomplish X.
Okay.
I could try these methods.
And then like once you pick I'm gonna try this method, then you split into like two different paths.
I'm gonna use this method or not use this method.
Using this method, I need to have like, I don't know, some kind of substrate.
I'm gonna try this substrate or this substrate or this substrate, right?
And you can basically try to really like tile space of all the it is.
We tried some early experiments there, and you're right, you run into this thing where some of the hypotheses that come out just don't make any sense.
And like you are going to waste a ton of effort if you actually test them all.
Nowadays, I actually would argue that if you go to an LLM and you ask it to evaluate, you know, hypotheses, including some garbage ones, it will probably do as good of a job as an expert in the field and in filtering them out.
That's not always the case.
Yeah,
Yeah, but there's a lot of gotchas and I think people can miss those.
But I think they're actually pretty good.
And so I'm not as worried about hypotheses that can fail fast by an expert looking at them.
I think now the filtration process really happens in in in literature.
And I think the filtration process happens in looking at like um you know, like uh uh biobank data or like you know, what do we know from GWAS or something?
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