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by fnands 4y ago
The detectors on the LHC get upgraded regularly, between every run some part gets updated. Computing-wise as well, better computing resources are there. The fundamental limitations isn't the detectors or computers, it's the energi
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by fnands 4y ago
As the adage goes: "There are only two kinds of languages: the ones people complain about and the ones nobody uses".
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by fnands 4y ago
At Fermilab they used a ferret (in a diaper!) to clean out the beam pipes: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/felicia-ferret-particl...
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by fnands 4y ago
I think UP42 is trying this model. They have a catalogue where you can download archived data or task it. But yeah, right now their sources are a bit limited, and its' an open question whether or not they'll be able to sign up eno
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by fnands 4y ago
Things have changed a bit at least, but it's still very provider dependant. Planet at least will let you pay per pixel for their PlanetScope data (3m res) and with a daily revisit time you are guaranteed at least a few hits per month i
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by fnands 5y ago
Man, what a weird interview. Not that that's new for Elon, but it's like the interviewer went to the Werner Herzog school of interviewing
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by fnands 5y ago
Cool when stuff like this works. Kinda like before they figured out you could cure syphilis with penicillin, they would infect the patient with malaria, which could be treated, which would then kill the syphilis.
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by fnands 5y ago
It does. They used Chemistry42 which is Insilico's ML based molecule generation platform(?)[0]. Sure, they didn't train any models specifically for this case, but they used a protein structure predicted by one ML algorithm, then u
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by fnands 5y ago
Eh, I would argue there is a massive difference between drug discovery and patient care, which was what Watson was aiming for. Filtering out useful molecules from useless (or dangerous) ones is a nicely contained (if difficult) problem that
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by fnands 5y ago
Yeah I was kinda wondering, what's their game plan here? Hope that people don't notice the price difference and DIY it? Might just be what someone else said, this is what Dell is not being paid to pre-install whatever
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by fnands 5y ago
> Having killed the churches, we gotta figure out what actual services they provided to society and re-implement them somehow. Well, I was with you on the first sentence, the rest not so much. But ignoring that, I do believe there is som