I can't help but feel like, at the root of most of our contemporary political problems, is a real loss of faith in our institutions: in experts, in courts, in government , etc. which isn't remotely warranted. Our institutions are mostly good, actually. 1/

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in 2018 I played as myself in third person by having an autonomous drone follow me and stream to a VR headset I was wearing

NEW: Pentagon launches 'See Something Stupid, Say Something Stupid' campaign duffelblog.com/p/pentagon-unv…

nature.com/articles/54538…

The value of ‘wasting time’ on deep thinking is often overlooked in a scientific ecosystem increasingly tainted by Wall Street’s productivity mindset. nature.com/articles/d4158…

phyddle: software for phylogenetic model exploration with deep learning biorxiv.org/cgi/content/sh… #biorxiv_evobio

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"Beyond Steel Tanks" by Elliot Hershberg is a fascinating read. Some estimates say ~30M people will soon take GLP-1 weight loss drugs, but the total market size could be an order of magnitude larger. But how do you manufacture that much protein? asimov.press/p/beyond-steel…

Globally, tuna stocks are heavily over fished, but using the pole and line method benefits the ocean habitat being more sustainable vs other, more aggressive, fishing methods. This is how pole and line tuna fishing is made.

Bioinformatics papers

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This seems significant: arxiv.org/abs/2410.00907

Here's a fun paper by a Stanford econ JMC on grade school math teachers. Looking at AMC data matched to Linkedin, paper finds that even just decent, above-average middle/high school math teachers dramatically increase students' AMC scores: top AMC scorers increase by 165%!

Molecular dynamics simulations in mixed reality! With Luciano Abriata and Lucien Krapp we’re scaling our multi-user WebXR platform to enable immersive molecular simulations, fully based on web technologies. Stay tuned, lots of cool stuff coming soon! Three.js #WebXR #Quest3

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