Wednesday, August 12, 2026

Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus): Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean - Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration with Angela McLean

 

Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean - Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration with Angela McLean 


Dear Professor McLean, All, 

Greetings from the SF Bay Area's East Bay, and World University and School building on MIT OCW in 7 languages for free-to-students' WUaS degrees in all 200 countries and in their main languages, and in coding for all 7.9 billion people on the planet each a Wikidata PIN # from here - https://wiki.worlduniversityandschool.org/wiki/You_at_World_University - and which is also Wiki. WUaS is developing a realistic virtual earth for much of what you talked about. Thanks for your edifying and bridging "Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean" excellent armchair talk today W August 12, 2026 - https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0 .

About 24 minutes in ... and forward - appreciating your AI discussion - and even with a possible reference to realistic virtual earth - different ways to do our science together ... 

Happening now:
Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean & #UKchiefScientificAdviser
 @UniofOxford @RiceUniversity -
https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0
AND
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAaRlGeA5k0
How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScientificAdvice a  #RealisticVirtualEarthForSTEM (and think Google Street View with time slider at the #GCellView, #GMoleculeView #GAtomView even the #GQubitView levels and with little Pegman becoming our #AvatarAgentElectronicHealthRecords in a #RVEforEHR - and see too re a #RealisticVirtualEarth Peter Norvig's INCREDIBLE #ToolifyAIWUaS article "Revolutionizing Education with Machine Learning and AI: World University In School, updated March 2, 2024  - https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 - with its first mention of a Realistic Virtual Earth other than by WUaS) and with Gemini & TensorFlow AI @WorldUnivAndSch in a #GrowWithGoogleWUaS program, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, help? 

Also regarding Scientific Advice to Governments, particularly in your role in the DoD in Great Britain, please see the PPPS and regarding #GeneralBiologicalIntelligenceAI and the great interview too with Stanford CS professor of Machine Learning, Eric Nguyen, and as WUaS seeks to interoperate this in a #RealisticVirtualEarth, even a #RVEforAgingReversal, a #RVEforExtremeLongevity, a #RVEforGenetics and more. 

All the Best, Friendly NtF Quaker, Yoga (as in 8 limbs of Yoga) and UU regards, More later, Thank you,
Scott






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PS

Happening now:
Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice - #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean & #UKchiefScientificAdviser @UniofOxford @RiceUniversity -
https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0
How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScience #RVEforSTEM @WorldUnivAndSch help?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2087590186591088914

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2087590948717093288

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2087591391216259343

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2087591576524697825

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2087591729700716830

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2087594050442686600

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2087594249965777028


Restweeting -


S&T Policy with K.R.W. Matthews, Ph.D.
@stpolicy
TOMORROW: Dame Angela McLean joins
@BakerInstitute
 for a Civic Scientist Lecture on U.S.-U.K. scientific collaboration, innovation & science diplomacy.

Register: https://bit.ly/4bu612n  #BakerLive #SciencePolicy #ScienceDiplomacy

https://x.com/stpolicy/status/2087238077345398878





PPS

My notes - 



https://www.eventbrite.com/e/livestreamcivic-scientist-lecture-series-with-angela-mclean-tickets-1993612412392








AND

krwm@rice.edu


Kirstin R.W. Matthews at Rice Baker Institute at Rice University's Baker Institute

Introduces

Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean

https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KAaRlGeA5k0







PPPS


Eric Nguyen @exnx - I sat down with @mariogabriele  on the Generalist podcast to talk about why DNA is the most complicated and important language ever ...


Eric, 'How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to create a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal (think #GStreetView w #GTimeSlider #GdnaView #TextInTheSideBar) https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082923524902257113 #GBIforAgingReveral in #RealisticVirtualEarthForDNA re https://www.toolify.ai/ai-news/revolutionizing-education-with-machine-learning-and-ai-2574306 @WorldUnivAndSch?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2084702092426698797

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2084702629465342344

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2084703783393828980

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2084703437791654132

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2084704310596907442


https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2084705096332718096 



Retweeting -


Mario Gabriele
@mariogabriele
What happens when AI can write the genetic code for life itself?

Eric Nguyen (@exnx) is the co-founder of
@RadicalNumerics, the lab behind the models that generated the first genome ever created entirely by AI, a bacteriophage that had never existed in nature until it wrote one. He believes DNA should be treated the way language is treated: something a model can read, then write.

With more DNA sitting in public databases than there is text on the entire internet, he sees an almost unmined field, one where the models built to make sense of it remain, by his own admission, no more sophisticated than linear regression.

Thank you to the partners who make this possible
@ahrefs
 Brand Radar: Find your brand in AI results: https://ahrefs.com/generalist
@brexHQ
: The intelligent finance platform: https://brex.com/mario
@Guru_HQ
: The AI source of truth for work:

(3:35) An overview of Radical Numerics
(11:08) Why they started with DNA
(26:24) The limits of language models in biology
(31:15) Eric’s free-range upbringing and path to his PhD program
(41:20) Applying long-context models to DNA and meeting his co-founders
(55:30) How better general LLMs benefit Radical Numerics
(1:02:05) Making biology more concrete
(1:18:09) Final meditations

https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104






PPPPS


Twitter - Eric Nguyen - Radical Numerics has 16 roles open, from MTS pre/post training, infra & systems, mech interp, to product leads in scientific discovery.


Yoga Sat 8/1/26 -



How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to interoperate these 16 #CSroles @ https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071 in @WorldUnivAndSch dev a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal #ForLongevity, #ForGenetics (#GStreetView #GCellView #GMoleculeView w #GTimeSlider) w #GeneralBiologicalIntelligence?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082923524902257113

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2082925853336625483

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2082925137687671243

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2082926757112639504

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2082927495595352322

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2082927880410157080

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2082929245316424052


Retweeting -

Google AI
@GoogleAI
Mapping the Brain with Connectomics
https://x.com/GoogleAI/status/2082466336228122711



AND 

How best @exnx @GeoChurch @amyneurons to interoperate these 16 #CSroles @ https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071 in @WorldUnivAndSch dev a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal #ForLongevity, #ForGenetics (#GStreetView #GCellView #GMoleculeView w #GTimeSlider) w #GeneralBiologicalIntelligence?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2082924192421515667

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2082924916710785444

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2082925659492622814

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2082926549255483735

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2082927344088674801

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2082927726932226431

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2082929034233852326 

Amy Robinson Sterling
@amyneurons
Your history of connectomics list forgot the first actual brain connectome, the whole fruit fly brain! We should make a website with all the known connectomics datasets to date, from all sources!

https://x.com/amyneurons/status/2082749209615192357



ALL Re 

Eric Nguyen

@exnx 

https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071

Radical Numerics has 16 roles open, from MTS pre/post training, infra & systems, mech interp, to product leads in scientific discovery.

Our team is growing rapidly in SF, and so are the models. We’re pretraining the largest biological AI models ever. Science is the next frontier in AI.

Roles:
https://radicalnumerics.ai/join-us

- MTS Pretraining
- MTS Post-training
- MTS Infra & systems
- MTS Model interpretability
- MTS ML engineer
- MTS Inference
- MTS AI supercomputing
- Product lead - Discovery
- Product lead - Diagnostics
- Computation biology
- Protein design
- MTS Biosecurity
- Head of Data Acquisition
- MTS AI bio
- Applications engineer
- Marketing associate

https://x.com/exnx/status/2082490968910246071




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Thursday, August 13, 2026 



Dear Dame Professor Angela McLean, All,  

I omitted 
adding this INCREDIBLE video interview with Stanford CS professor Eric Nguyen with Mario Gabriele - https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104 - in my last email. I've created a 2nd set of Tweets in these regards, and also added it to the W August 12, 2026 "Red-billed streamertail (Trochilus polytmus): Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean - Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration with Angela Mclean" - https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/red-billed-streamertail-trochilus.html - blog post I created regarding your great talk, Professor Dame Mclean, and especially regarding Advancing US-UK Scientific Collaboration. 



Dear #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean  #UKchiefScientificAdviser @UniofOxford re #AdvancingUSUKScientificCollaboration -https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0 Here is the INCREDIBLE interview w @exnx &: https://scott-macleod.blogspot.com/2026/08/red-billed-streamertail-trochilus.html How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthFor #RVEforSTEM @WorldUnivAndSch help?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2087981167001878823

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2087982030768459827

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2087981837234938181

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2087982517127364750

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2087982819691880950

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2088029158219956390

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2088029569609839026


Retweeting -

What happens when AI can write the genetic code for life itself?

Eric Nguyen (@exnx) is the co-founder of
@RadicalNumerics, the lab behind the models that generated the first genome ever created entirely by AI ...

https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104



* 

Eric Nguyen 8/4/26 video interview with Mario Gabriele

https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104


Appreciating from 13 minutes to 16:15 especially and regarding interoperating a #RealisticVirtualEarthForBiology, a #RealisticVirtualEarthForDNA a #RealisticVirtualEarthForImages in 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarthForScience 1 iterating #RealisticVirtualEarthSTEMcollaboration and potentially for a #RealisticVirtualEarthForAgingReversal and a #RealisticVirtualEarthForExtremeLongevity (and think Google Street View with G Time slider, #GMaps, #GEarth and at the #GCellView #GMoleculeView #GAtomView and #GQubitView levels too, #TextInTheSideBar #TextInTheSideBarForDNA too ... of #GStreetView with Time Slider eg from here at the Harbin Hot Springs' gatehouse for one - ~ https://goo.gl/maps/7gSsSTweRCBo9gf87 ~) ...


13:0 mins
One of these modalities is the
#3DstructureOfDNA

13:03
It turns out #3DstructureOfDNA is a thing, DNA is not just a string of letters ... and the structure is important because it's a physical system that has binding ...

Basically it will activate and turn on and off genes


13:39
you could look at it DNA as a long 1 D sequence or ... as a 3D structure

And things that are nearby ...

13:45
... shortcut in terms of information

3D contact points vs ...

13:50
in a long sequence you might have 2 points that are very far from each other


Say in natural language you have
13:55
limitation on context

You might have something

14:00
that are millions of letters away, it might be hard to feed in from a language model standpoint  


14:05
If you're able to feed in an image ... These 2 things are close ... re turning on genes


16:14
Thinking of DNA as a language, having
grammar structure rules are useful



In terms of further collaboration, World University and School, building on MIT OCW in 7 languages, is seeking to hire about 2.5 million people over the next 50-100 years, on both wings of WUaS, the 1) World University and School academic wing, and 2) the Academic Press WUaS Educational Services' Stores' wing as the WUaS Corporation wing, in all ~200 countries and in all 7159 living languages (so hiring slightly more than Walmart at 2.1 million people, and which is in 19 out of 200 countries).  World University and School seeks to become the Oxford, Oxbridge, Stanford, Harvard, MIT, TUM university of the internet in each of all ~200 countries and with an iterating #RealisticVirtualEarth as AI and ML and LLM classrooms and field sites. Sundar and Peter, all ... how to 

Thanks so much again,
Scott 
Scott GK MacLeod



PS

And again -


Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice With Angela McLean


Happening now:
Civic Scientist Lecture Series: Why Governments Need Science Advice - #OxfordProfessorAngelaMcLean & #UKchiefScientificAdviser @UniofOxford @RiceUniversity -
https://www.youtube.com/live/KAaRlGeA5k0
How could a #RealisticVirtualEarthForScience #RVEforSTEM @WorldUnivAndSch help?

https://x.com/WorldUnivAndSch/status/2087590186591088914

https://x.com/WUaSPress/status/2087590948717093288

https://x.com/sgkmacleod/status/2087591391216259343

https://x.com/HarbinBook/status/2087591576524697825

https://x.com/Q_YogaMacFlower/status/2087591729700716830

https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2087594050442686600

https://x.com/scottmacleod/status/2087594249965777028


Restweeting -

S&T Policy with K.R.W. Matthews, Ph.D.
@stpolicy
TOMORROW: Dame Angela McLean joins
@BakerInstitute
 for a Civic Scientist Lecture on U.S.-U.K. scientific collaboration, innovation & science diplomacy.

Register: https://bit.ly/4bu612n  #BakerLive #SciencePolicy #ScienceDiplomacy

https://x.com/stpolicy/status/2087238077345398878






PPS
And again too - 

Eric Nguyen @exnx - I sat down with @mariogabriele  on the Generalist podcast to talk about why DNA is the most complicated and important language ever ...




https://x.com/TheOpenBand/status/2084705096332718096 



Retweeting -


Mario Gabriele
@mariogabriele
What happens when AI can write the genetic code for life itself?

Eric Nguyen (@exnx) is the co-founder of
@RadicalNumerics, the lab behind the models that generated the first genome ever created entirely by AI, a bacteriophage that had never existed in nature until it wrote one. He believes DNA should be treated the way language is treated: something a model can read, then write.

With more DNA sitting in public databases than there is text on the entire internet, he sees an almost unmined field, one where the models built to make sense of it remain, by his own admission, no more sophisticated than linear regression.

Thank you to the partners who make this possible
@ahrefs
 Brand Radar: Find your brand in AI results: https://ahrefs.com/generalist
@brexHQ
: The intelligent finance platform: https://brex.com/mario
@Guru_HQ
: The AI source of truth for work:

(3:35) An overview of Radical Numerics
(11:08) Why they started with DNA
(26:24) The limits of language models in biology
(31:15) Eric’s free-range upbringing and path to his PhD program
(41:20) Applying long-context models to DNA and meeting his co-founders
(55:30) How better general LLMs benefit Radical Numerics
(1:02:05) Making biology more concrete
(1:18:09) Final meditations

https://x.com/mariogabriele/status/2084610303673934104




PPPS






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