Author Archives: Jean-Yves Sgro

10 Top Undetectable AI Writers – StealthGPT Alternatives

This is based on a LinkedIn Post that might still be available to non-member: 10 Best StealthGPT Alternatives – Top Undetectable AI Writers This short blog is to provide the list. Not all are free. For example HIX has no free option. Note: the links are embedded as e.g. “https://upass.ai/” for uPass. Some browsers may… Read More »

Ligand Docking with Rosetta – Mixing Docker and Mac

Summary: The complete, merged tutorial is on my tutorial page: Rosetta – Ligand Docking The Rosetta software suite includes algorithms for computational modeling and analysis of protein structures. I recently wrote a Blog elsewhere titled Rosetta Ligand Docking – Help with Docker as a first approach to helping a student run the published tutorial. The… Read More »

Classic Operating Systems That Run in Web Browser

Finding some old floppy disks I wondered how I could read them. Assuming that I have a floppy reader, how could I then open some of the old file formats? A quick search led me first to the “Mini vMac” site but this option only emulates very old Macs and has the complication that one… Read More »

Single-cell multi-omics using generative AI

Generative pre-trained models are becoming more common by the day, and such methods have now been applied to single cell sequencing, and multi-omits in general. Two main players are “scBERT” and “scGPT”: scGPT: Towards Building a Foundation Model for Single-Cell Multi-omics Using Generative AIHaotian Cui, Chloe Wang, Hassaan Maan, Bo Wang – Nature Methods doi: 10.1038/s41592-024-02201-0 CODE: https://github.com/bowang-lab/scGPT scBERT as a large-scale pretrained deep language… Read More »

Understanding Language Models: GPT-2 squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet

Source: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/03/once-too-scary-to-release-gpt-2-gets-squeezed-into-an-excel-spreadsheet/ This Blog: Once “too scary” to release, GPT-2 gets squeezed into an Excel spreadsheet OpenAI’s GPT-2 running locally in Microsoft Excel teaches the basics of how LLMs work. by Benj Edwards – 3/15/2024, 3:56 PM Summary by Copilot: (Edited) Ishan Anand, a software developer, has created a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet that runs “GPT-2”… Read More »

How useful is a home-made quantum computer?

These 2 videos are quite cool (in spite of the vocal fry speech) and teach a lot about quantum computing and q-bits in ways that make sense to a non-physicist… Video 1: 25:38 min – I made a (useless) quantum computer at home Video 2: 33:15 min – What can my homemade quantum computer do?… Read More »

Eightify: AI to crate YouTube video summaries

This is available as a plug-in for Chrome or Safari. It is free for videos that are less than 30 min. The plug-in is available at eightify.app Eightify is a cutting-edge program made to assist users in condensing the main points of lengthy YouTube films. It’s now simpler to swiftly create summaries of YouTube videos… Read More »

Generate BibTeX from URL

This is a short version of Do yourself a favor: learn Markdown – Episode 7: BibTeX for online articles Summary: Generate BibTeX from URL for web pages, blogs, articles online, etc. In a previous article (Sgro (2022)) I presented how to add bibliographical information within an Rmarkdown document (Allaire et al. (2023)) with the BibTex format in… Read More »