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Kurt Thorn

@ScopeKurt

Mastodon: kurtthorn@fosstodon.org. Microscopy and DS/ML. Chief Technology Officer @ArrePath. Tweets are my personal opinion. Pronouns: he/him/his.
San Francisco, CA Joined November 2016
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Kurt Thorn @ScopeKurt
It’s funny how moving from academia to industry changes your perspective. Looking for my second industry job I spent a lot of time asking questions about business strategy, to find a company that I thought would be successful. That never would have occurred to me in academia.
@ScopeKurt 💯 when I joined my current company when it was private and much smaller, the first thing I looked for was who they’d hired already - the concept was cool, but they’d also brought in many pharma veterans who knew how to get out the hammer and tongs and get sh*t done
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Agreed. There’s a reason VCs prefer an A team with a B idea over a B team with an A idea. Execution matters more than you think.
Second this. Pharma prioritizes action and decision-making. Scientific excellence is important, but execution is equally important. The work is iterative. Turn the crank, fail fast, learn from the failure, improve design, repeat. You can be scientifically excellent to a fault.
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We’re hiring a senior director of medicinal chemistry at ArrePath to advance our first program to the clinic. Come help develop new antibiotics and build our AI/ML platform for accelerating drug development. linkedin.com/jobs/view/3350…
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Kurt Thorn @ScopeKurt
There’s a lot of concern about people using LLMs to write academic papers, which I understand. However, used as a co-editor I find them extremely useful. I like to use Claude to revise sentences or paragraphs that don’t flow as well as I want or to make them more concise.
Kurt Thorn @ScopeKurt
As always, a really informative post by Pat Walters on the real-world challenges of generative molecular design. I hadn't realized that assigning bond orders was such a challenge. I'm surprised there hasn't been an ML model trained to address this.
New Practical Cheminformatics Post, "Generative Molecular Design Isn't As Easy As People Make It Look", practicalcheminformatics.blogspot.com/2024/05/genera…
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