current
- 'Have object-oriented languages missed a trick with class Function and its subclasses?' arxiv:2507.00488, July 2025.
- "Compared to functions in mathematics, functions in programming languages seem to be under classified. Functional programming languages based on the lambda calculus famously treat functions as first-class values ... there is generally a lack of (i) "class Function" in the OO sense of the word class and particularly (ii) subclasses of Function for functions having specific properties. Some such classes are presented here and programmed ..."
- ChatGPT was released in 2022.
Students graduating from 3-year degree courses have had access to it
(and Bing, co-pilot, ...) for all of their study;
some believe that it is often #chatGPT, not a human,
that has done the work.
There are also reports that employers are holding off on hiring as
the use of "AI" spreads in workplaces, particularly but not limited to
entry-level jobs.
- • 'Computer Science graduates struggle to secure their first jobs',
BBC,
[www],
22 August 2025.
• 'Working with AI: Measuring the occupational implications of generative AI' K. Tomlinson et al, arxiv:2507.07935, July 2025, Examines which careers might be affected, and to what extent, by generative AI.
• 'Our Gen AI Transition, Implications for Work and Skills', Australian Government, pp.120, [www], August 2025.
• 'Strange behaviour is being observed in job interviews. It's a sign of the times', The Age, [www], 31 August 2025. Some job interviews or parts thereof are conducted and/or assessed by genAI; some applicants are using genAI off-screen to tell them what to say!-) - #genAI, #chatbot, large language model, #LLM, chatGPT #Bing #copilot, #jobs, #careers, #academia.
- 'PhiSiCal-Checkup: A Bayesian framework to validate amino acid conformations within experimental protein structures', P. R. Amarasinghe et al, Proc. Nat. Acad. Sci. (PNAS), 122(1), e2416301121, doi:10.1073/pnas.2416301121.
- "... a Bayesian method for analysis and validation of amino-acid conformations within protein structures: "φψχal Checkup ... provides ways to analyze protein structures that were previously out of reach for experimentalists and structure biologists." #bioinformatics #proteins #probability #distribution
- "How Trump [potus] is following Project 2025's radical roadmap to defund science. Much of the Trump administration's agenda for research is laid out in the 900-plus-page blueprint. Nature read it so you don't have to. ..." — Nature [www][27/3/2025]. #project2025 #Trump #USA #politics
- 2025: Also see the administration's attacks on Harvard and other American Universities.
- .au: "Children and teenagers under 16 to be banned from
social media* after parliament passes world-first laws ...
The new rules won't come into force for another year to
allow social media companies time to comply. ..."
— [abc][28/11/2024].
See the 'Online Safety Amendment (Social Media Minimum Age) Bill 2024' [.gov.au][29/11/2024].
There will be foot dragging but there is very little doubt that if the s.m.-companies make an effort in proportion to their vast wealth then they can make a pretty good (if not 100% perfect) job of it – they know everything about you. Several other countries including the UK are considering similar bans, e.g., [bbc][20/11/2024]. .
*including #Facebook, #Instagram, #Snapchat, #TikTok. #u16. [Also search for: social media psychology] in the BIB. - "Trial finds age assurance can be done, as under-16s social media ban deadline looms ..." — [abc][20/6/2025].
.au: "ChatGPT, Meta and Google generative AI should be designated 'high-risk' under new laws, bipartisan [parliamentary] committee recommends ... Senators said their interactions with AI developers 'only intensified' their concerns about how the models were operating. ... also determined multinational tech companies operating in Australia had committed 'unprecedented theft' from creative workers. ..." — [abc][26/11/2024].
I implemented a new version of my Computer-Science and Bioinformatics Bibliography, [here], after Monash University closed down its users.monash.edu.au/ web-server, including the original Bibliography, in late 2024. Monash University does that kind of thing from time to time.
- "Gene-level alignment of single cell trajectories informs the progression of in vitro T cell differentiation", D. Sumanaweera, et al, Nature Methods, September 2024, [doi:10.1038/s41592-024-02378-4]. #bioinformatics #Gene2Genes
- "... describe Genes2Genes, a Bayesian information-theoretic dynamic programming framework for aligning single-cell trajectories. It is able to capture sequential matches and mismatches of individual genes between a reference and query trajectory, highlighting distinct clusters of alignment patterns. ..."