There is a moment in every explorer's story when the map leaves their hands. Before it, it is a draft; after it, it belongs to everyone who wants to check it. This week you press "submit" on bioRxiv. It will feel anticlimactic (a form, a PDF, a category) and then, a few days later, a DOI appears, and your name is attached to a piece of science forever. You also translate it for humans: a LinkedIn article for non-sci…
If you only do one thing this week: the submission
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