Halloween candy contains a UMAP plot, and bioinformatics Twitter is delighted
lpachter · x · 2026-11-01
Biologist Michael Eisen (mbeisen) posted that while checking his kids' Halloween candy he "found a UMAP!", which Lior Pachter amplified with "Agentic candy has arrived." It's a seasonal in-joke for the AI/bioinformatics crowd: a candy wrapper design looks uncannily like a UMAP dimensionality-reduction scatter plot.
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