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Microsoft distilled a billion-parameter pathology model into 22M parameters

GigaPath-Flash keeps its teacher's accuracy to within 3 percent at roughly 50 times less compute, under Apache 2.0 with the weights on Hugging Face. The companion tumour model went the other way and beat its original, most of all out of distribution. Neither is validated for clinical use, and Microsoft says so first.

Ahmad J · Sep 2, 2026 · 4 min read

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How AI Cracks Hard Problems in Drug Discovery, Materials Science, and Climate Modeling

AI isn't hype or magic: it's chipping away at concrete scientific bottlenecks. Here's how AlphaFold, generative materials models, and AI weather forecasters actually work across drug discovery, materials science, and climate modeling, and where they still fall short.

Ahmad J · Aug 10, 2026 · 5 min read

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Science at Scale: How AI Is Restructuring Which Questions Researchers Can Afford to Ask

AI hasn't just made science faster: it has quietly shifted which hypotheses are economically and computationally tractable, reshaping careers, funding, and…

Ahmad J · Aug 9, 2026 · 10 min read