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The ML drug discovery startup trying really, really hard to not cheat (Leash Bio)

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Note: I’ll be Austin until Jan 3rd, and in San Francisco (for JPM) from Jan 3rd-17th, message me on X/email to hang out! Also, thank you to Ian Quigley and Andrew Blevins, the two co-founders of Leash Bio, for answering the many questions that arose while writing this essay. Introduction Some of Leash’s research The BELKA result The Hermes result The train/test split result The ‘Clever Hans’ result Conclusion What I will describe below is a rough first approximation of what it is like to work in the field of machine-learning-assisted small-molecule design. Imagine that you are…

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