Links for 2022-09-08
"Equivalent of a James Webb Space Telescope for biology," now predicting 3D structure of >200 million proteins, this is the most important life science advance since genome editing [Washington Post] https://archive.ph/eXZfI
Molecular modeling with deep learning has been used to predict the way ice forms. [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.ph/rxoE8
An ML-generated sensory map that relates thousands of molecules and their perceived odors, enabling the prediction of odors from unseen molecules and providing a potential tool to address global health issues like insect-borne disease. https://ai.googleblog.com/2022/09/digitizing-smell-using-molecular-maps.html
“What does GPT-3 “know” about me? Large language models are trained on troves of personal data hoovered from the internet. So I wanted to know: What does it have on me?” [MIT Technology Review] https://archive.ph/135Nn
The father of the new British Prime Minister is a logician who wrote an excellent book called 'Foundations of Mathematical Analysis'. https://www.logicmatters.net/2022/09/05/in-praise-of-truss/
“We engineered yeast to produce the cancer therapeutic vinblastine.” https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05157-3
*Bentham's mugging* - a short and entertaining dialogue about the problems that threats of self-harm may pose for utilitarianism. By Johan Gustafsson. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/utilitas/article/benthams-mugging/9C67002F344B20661A6C35C960F25A86
A short story about writing, reading, and searching for connection and meaning in a post-AI art era. https://archiveofourown.org/works/41112099
Many users found the temporary shutdown of Facebook half as bad when they realized that the others were also locked out. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0747563222002941
"demise of 1,513 monarchs in 45 European monarchies … 600 to 1800. … of all royal deaths … 15% … were outright murder" https://www.medievalists.net/2011/02/killing-kings-patterns-of-regicide-in-europe-ad-600%E2%80%931800/