Archive - Arsham's musings

How I think about product at Ribbon

Lessons from two years building at Ribbon

Sep 16, 2024 •

April 2022

How Twitter and FAANG develop and launch recommendation systems

And why open sourcing "the algorithm" won't benefit anyone

Apr 27, 2022 •

January 2022

Retrieval Transformers for Medicine

Exploring how DeepMind's RETRO can benefit health and medicine

Jan 18, 2022 •

August 2021

Mirror mirror biology

Scientists have engineered a "mirror" DNA polymerase

Aug 10, 2021 •

July 2021

What is a Borg?

Let’s talk Borgs, the latest enigmatic find in genome biology, detailed in a bioRxiv preprint by the Banfield lab at UC Berkeley.

Jul 19, 2021 •

Is this the holy GRAIL for cancer detection?

GRAIL is rolling out Galleri, their multi-cancer early detection test

Jul 9, 2021 •

June 2021

Direct editing of the human genome in vivo

News this week of results from Intellia Therapeutic’s first-in-human clinical trial captured the world’s imagination.

Jun 29, 2021 •

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