Before a bridge opens, two different inspectors walk it: one checks the calculations, the other checks the welds. This week your paper gets two inspectors. The first is Reviewer 2, the famously harsh anonymous reviewer, played by an LLM twice. The second is a human scientist, the one inspection that cannot be automated. You will ask for it, and you may pay a postdoc for two hours. That is not a weakness: professiona…
If you only do one thing this week: human review requested
Rives et al. (2021), "Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learnin…
Saturday sandbox
Rives et al. (2021), "Biological structure and function emerge from scaling unsupervised learning to 250 million protein sequences", PNAS 118(15) — the ESM-1b paper, for the "why it works" story