J.J. Kochmanski

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  • Can Fans Save Us From AI Media?

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    It’s September 2014, and I’m sitting in Bioinformatics 527, learning about machine learning models and how to apply them to genomics data. The instructor describes how these models “learn” (read: iterate and predict) from the provided inputs. I’m gonna be honest, the math went way over my head, but the concept was intriguing, and there…

  • Scientific vs. Fiction Publishing — The Same?

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    Joseph Kochmanski
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    I mean this quite sincerely: Thank you, academia, for (mostly) preparing me for the agonizing pace of traditional publishing. In science, ideas can develop quickly, but their execution is slow. A typical molecular biology project looks something like this: secure collaborators, write a grant, wait six months for a review/score, wait some more to (hopefully)…

  • Learning to “love” feedback

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    Joseph Kochmanski
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    Writing a novel is a deeply personal activity. It’s a translation of one’s own imagination into physical words, ostensibly for sharing with others, but also as a permanent record of the ideas that gather between a person’s synapses. The stories I’ve written feel like children–I know them better than anyone and understand their oddities and…