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Apocalypse Early Warning System

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www-cdn.anthropic.com 4mo ago

How Anthropic Teams use Claude Code [pdf]

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news.ycombinator.com 5mo ago

AMZN Q4 2025 Results and News Release

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Filtered back-projection algorithm (X Ray Tomography)

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arxiv.org 10mo ago

Mindstorms in Natural Language-Based Societies of Mind

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science.nasa.gov 10mo ago

NASA's Webb Space Telescope Observes 3I/ATLAS1

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www.biorxiv.org 12mo ago

Theanine boosts object recognition memory (in rats)

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www.bmj.com 1y ago

Parachute use when jumping from aircraft: randomized controlled trial [pdf]

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en.wikipedia.org 1y ago

Happy Eyeballs IETF Algorithm

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www.cell.com 1y ago

Rise of the RNA machines – self-amplification in mRNA vaccine design

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huggingface.co 1y ago

Diffusion models are real time game engines

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arxiv.org 2y ago

A highly efficient sorting-based distributed memory k-mer counter

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sigops.org 2y ago

CPU-Free Computing: A Vision with a Blueprint (Hot OS XIX) [pdf]

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www.frontiersin.org 2y ago

EEG recording of a dying human brain

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news.ycombinator.com 2y ago

Ask HN: Alternatives to HubSpot (in case they get acquired by BigCo)?

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google-research.github.io 2y ago

Particle Lenia and the energy-based formulation

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www.patentnext.com 2y ago

UK's High Court Opens the Door for More AI Inventions

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www.cell.com 2y ago

A gut-derived hormone regulates cholesterol metabolism

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containertoolbx.org 2y ago

Toolbx

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www.routledge.com 2y ago

Probabilistic predictive modeling in human-in-the-loop situations

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Hydraulic analog computer simulating Keynesian economic model

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utxo.live 2y ago

UTXOracle: Derives fiat btc price from blocks – no exchange, no third party

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inflection.ai 3y ago

Inflection AI raises a $1.3B round

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sympygamma.com 3y ago

SympyGamma: A SymPy Version of Wolfram Alpha

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openai.com 3y ago

Solving Rubik’s Cube with a robot hand (2019)

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arxiv.org 3y ago

OpenSpike: An OpenRAM SNN Accelerator (Open source neuromorphic chip)

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Kissinger: How to avoid another world war

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How German are the British royals?

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Saudi woman given 34-year prison sentence for using Twitter

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www.theregister.com 4y ago

Nasdaq can't handle prices that exceed 32 bit unsigned int

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Qwen 3.8 3 days ago

Good for humanity, and also GDDR/HBM manufacturers.

Intriguing... "After months of misdiagnoses Dr Souhel Najjar, employs a test asking Susannah to draw a clock. Instead of the customary clock face, her condition led her to draw all the numbers 1 through 12 on the right side of the clock. This was the breakthrough moment; it was this clock drawing that enabled Dr Najjar to understand that the right side of Susannah’s brain was inflamed, further test revealed this inflammation was a result of anti-NMDA receptor encephalitis, initiating her path to recovery"

"since 2019, on the advice of the National Agency for the Safety of Medicines and Health Products, French health workers have been told not to treat fever or infections with ibuprofen." [1]

But yet in some countries pediatricians will libreally prescribe it to toddlers

[1] https://www.bmj.com/content/368/bmj.m1086

Also from [2] "In this systematic review of NSAID use during acute lower respiratory tract infections in adults, we found that the existing evidence for mortality, pleuro-pulmonary complications and rates of mechanical ventilation or organ failure is of extremely poor quality, very low certainty and should be interpreted with caution."

https://bpspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bcp.1451...

Anthropic/OpenAI could own this space. They should offer a paid service that offers a mirror with LLM scanned and sandbox-evaluated package with their next gen models. Free for individuals, orgs can subscribe to it.

“ The agent acted like a hyperparameter optimization algorithm with some basic reasoning baked in.”

Good lens.

The crux of the auto research repo is basically one file - program.md which is a system prompt that can be summarized as “do this in a loop: improve train.py, run the training, run evals, record result. Favor simplicity”. The other files are an arbitrary ML model that is being trained.

The solution is ironically, LLMs. You can construct a set of Claude skills to walk you through a code review, or understand code (anything, even course) fast.

This complexity to understanding compression will be a big market going forward.

Both are broad spectrum antivirals, but completely different mechanism.

DRACO "is a chimeric protein with one domain that binds to viral double stranded RNA (dsRNA) and a second domain that induces apoptosis when two or more DRACOs crosslink on the same dsRNA." (Ridder et al 2011). This article is about packaging mRNA for a set of 10 interferon-stimulated genes that express multiple proteins that target various stages of viral replication.

Paper appears to be paywalled. It is however an update to this preprint which is available on Biorxiv: "Broad-spectrum RNA antiviral inspired by ISG15-/- deficiency" https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2024.06.24.600468v1

My summary for programmers:

When you get a viral infection, immune cells make a signalling protein called a IFN-1 (Type I Interferon) cytokine, and this flips a boolean flag to True on a bunch of genes (interferon-stimulated genes or ISGs) that produce a bunch of proteins (hundreds) that control the infection. ISG15 is one of them and its role appears to be to downregulate and to limit the inflammation.

The paper title refers to a ISG15 deficiency, meaning if you are dificient in ISG15 that inflamation limitation goes away. But the paper is actually about how in people that naturally have a ISG15 deficiency, there is an always-on low level expression of some of these pro-inflamation genes. So they take that as a safe level.

The did RNA sequencing on experimental ISG15 deficient cells and from heatlhy individuals, identified the mutations, narrowed down to 10 genes (antiviral ones not inhibitors) that in combination significantly inhibited viral replication. They stuck the RNA for such genes in lipid nanoparticles such that they enter host cells, whose ribosomes happily read the RNA like a turing head reads a tape in base 20 and produce proteins encoded by these genes, similar to how the mRNA vaccine works.

So why not dose with the IFN-I directly? Three referenced papers show its "poorly tolerated with significant side effects" and all those downregulators that get expressed limit the inflammation response.

Disclaimer: IANAB (not a biologist) corrections might be due..

Maybe we can crowd source data. My platform, currently in beta, has ai assistants for compute infrastructure and biology and will soon let people to do self serve research on their own omics data using models like yours. So there could be a monetization path too if enough people start looking their own cell data (which they might once they fully understand the risks of engineered pathogens, and certainly will when the risks materialize and start hitting home). Email in bio if you want to brainstorm.

I thought people were dosing themselves with a base amino acid. Duh. Theanine is an amino acid found in green tea, but not a base amino acid, ie doesn't form proteins. Can cross the blood-brain barrier and can certainly modulate brain function.

Not to be confused with:

* Thiamine: Vitamin B1, a molecule your body does not produce so you a get it from a food source. Needed for biochemical pathways that convert carbohydrates into energy. Not an amino acid.

* Thymine: One of the four nucleotide bases in DNA, pairs with Adenine. Synthesized in the body from the pyrimidine synthesis pathways