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I Built a Personal AI Assistant on a Mac Mini

My first blog post in a long time! I wanted an AI assistant that knew me. Knew my research. Knew my content calendar. Knew that when I say “write a thread about batch effects,” I mean single-cell RNA-seq batch effects with Harmony and Seurat code, for an audience of computational biologists who already know what a UMAP is. So I built Helix. An OpenClaw agent running on a Mac Mini in my home office in Boston, connected to my Google Calendar, my content docs, and a deep memory system that learns my preferences over time.

set up my new mac laptop

I am starting my first day at Harvard FAS informatics and I will keep a note here on how I set up my new laptop. customize terminal following this gist: download iterm2 for mac here. install on-my-zsh sh -c "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.github.com/robbyrussell/oh-my-zsh/master/tools/install.sh)" You will have to install git first for the upper command to work. Now, when you fire up your terminal, it looks much more prettier! (there are many other schemes for oh my zsh, I found the default is good.