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    Owl Posting

    owlposting.com · Personal blog · on HN since 2024

    Writing on biology and machine learning, covering cancer vaccines, drug discovery startups, biosecurity, and AI in pathology.

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    What HN says

    HN commenters recommend it as a biology and ML blog and cite its cancer vaccine and pathology AI posts as good, detailed reads.

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    19HN people shared it
    149linked in comments
    1.9Kstory points
    Aug 2026last shared
    2024people per year2026

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    What HN people wrote when they linked it

    • epistasisMay 2025

      For a more technical dive into startups that have been chugging along with AI in pathology for ~decade, check out this:

      https://www.owlposting.com/p/what-happened-to-pathology-ai-companies

      > One pathology AI founder told me that it wasn’t hospitals or diagnostic labs that showed the most promise. It was R&D groups within Big Pharma. Those scientists and executives wanted new tooling. They were often sitting on massive internal datasets, had real budget allocated to experimental tech, and — critically — had a clear ROI if your model helped shave months off a study or more precisely target the right patient cohort. Most importantly, pharma didn’t care as much about the regulatory headaches, as they weren’t using your model to diagnose patients

    • HedonicEscal8rAug 2026

      Yes, mRNA vaccines are promising for many but not all cancer types, and there are many ongoing clinical trials. There's also a lot we yet don't know about how to design them.

      Here's a great blog post on this, "How to build a cancer vaccine, and whether they will work this time": https://www.owlposting.com/p/how-to-build-a-cancer-vaccine-and

      Here's the blog post I wrote on personalized mRNA vaccines: https://hedonicescalator.substack.com/p/did-paul-conyngham-really-use-ai

    • abhishaikeAug 2024

      A biology/machine-learning blog!

      https://www.owlposting.com/

      Rediscovering an old love for writing that I thought had left me after highschool, now applied in the field I work in! Recommend starting your own blog if you're on the fence + being consistent about posting, it's extremely worth it

    • barrenkoDec 2025

      Monsieur, if I may offer a vaaaguely similar story on how things may progress https://www.owlposting.com/p/a-body-most-amenable-to-experimentation

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