“Lee Cronin, a chemist at the University of Glasgow, has proposed intriguing ideas about creating life-like systems using inorganic materials, particularly metal-based structures. His research focuses on the idea of “chemistry-first” approaches to synthetic biology, where the goal is to […]
“Scientists in South Korea have developed swarms of tiny magnetic robots that work together like ants to achieve Herculean feats, including traversing and picking up objects many times their size.” ~ learn more
This is pretty cool to look at — click thru just for animation. “Often missing from science text books due to the mysterious nature of their existence, it has been 40 years since the discovery of these giant, half-empty structures, […]
They sell legal weed in so many places now. I even saw a vending machine in Austin. The regular kind of weed is still very much banned in Texas, but this new stuff is unregulated… ~ learn more (free login […]
There’s threats of strikes at 7 facilities this week (or now?). “The International Brotherhood of Teamsters said unionized workers at facilities in New York City; Skokie, Illinois; Atlanta, San Francisco and southern California will join the picket line to seek […]
This is really good. “Let’s start with the good. The idea behind HSAs is a fundamentally good one. Introduced in 2003 as part of the Medicare Modernization Act (which also defined the guidelines for high deductible health plans, or HDHPs), […]
If you wondered why the NVO stock (see above) was down almost 20% yesterday, look no further. “[Its] experimental diabetes and weight-loss drug CagriSema fell short of expectations. The drug did not achieve the projected 25% average weight loss anticipated […]
The official FDA shortage is over, and compounders have 60-90 days to stop violating Eli Lilly’s patent protection. “The ruling also previews what will happen when semaglutide — the active ingredient in Novo Nordisk’s (NVO -17.43%) Ozempic and Wegovy — […]
Hard not to be awed reading this. Teaser: “AGI by 2027 is strikingly plausible. GPT-2 to GPT-4 took us from ~preschooler to ~smart high-schooler abilities in 4 years. Tracing trendlines in compute (~0.5 orders of magnitude or OOMs/year), algorithmic efficiencies […]
“Truffle is driven by: > A Mixture of Models (MoM) acting like a CPU; > An application stack that looks like OpenAI Gym Environments; > A 64GB Orin in a glowing case … Local AI also means Infinite Inference Time […]