I'm a medicinal chemist and have been for 45 years. I also tend to vote fairly liberally, though the leftists thought police were beginning to get on my nerves. Anyhow, my feeling is that glyphosate is probably a lot safer than anything that we try to replace it with, that works as well. When anything has been used as much a glyphosate and the only people sure of it's toxicity are lawyers, then you've got a pretty safe agent. Go to Lowe's hardware and get a container of new Roundup and read the label. The new stuff in there is surely more toxic than glyphosate and is more chemically kin to Agent Orange and paraquat. Be careful what you ask for here. Oh yeah, I kind of feel the same way about methylene chloride.

Show your face, you sniveling coward!

What, pray tell, would you even do with 10 petabytes of data?

Given where "cable" was heading, this was kinda "Duh!". Of course it was going to happen. We went from $240/mo with AT&T's service to $140 with Google Fiber and Youtube TV. And everything got better in the process.

Of course, now that Google Fiber is being bought by private equity, the enshitification will began anew.

This is really bad news. TWC started it all with Road Runner and then started their enshitification. Mostly, their settop boxes and remotes just didn't work and, of course, the steady 2x inflation rise in prices. Then AT&T came in and was a breath of fresh air with clear pricing and reliable high speed. Unfortunately, their enshitificaion was even more rapid with 4x inflation rises in prices. Then, after years of promises, Google Fiber finally shows up. It's been bliss for 5 years. Then I saw this. When I saw the words "investment firm" in an announcement somewhere else this morning, I knew we were for another round of enshitification. Oh well, here we go again.

I keep trying to get AI to answer chemistry questions, mostly of an organic synthesis nature. I get answers that sound like they might know something but it's not very specific. Sort of like trying to bullshit your way through it. I think it will be a long time before we get good AI on organic synthesis which is kind of central to drug discovery. It's mostly because the literature isn't all that easily extractable. The other is that there's a lot of garbage to ignore. And yes, I'm aware of AlphaFold et al. I'm also aware of the limits of extending that model.

This is Bullshit! The dose is the poison. And the dose is too low.

I'm no gun nut, nor do I worship at the feet of the second amendment, but this seems downright stupid. I'm betting this Bauer-Kahan person, although well intentioned, is probably not really well informed on this. I'll go do a little research.

I'm back. Just as I thought. A very nice person with good intentions who is also a lawyer. So yeah, no clue. She does seem to have something against plastics in general.

"each capable of storing more than one bit". I think of a voxel as the smallest usable volume in a 3-D array. How do they get more than one bit? Are they stored in shades of grey? Am I going to have to RTF?

This kind of cassette loaded methodology for the production of vaccines, may be one of the grater medical advances of the century. And the "brilliant" zeros of the tRump administration have decided to trip it up at every opportunity. Shame, shame, shame on the thirty-nine percenters who back this garbage no matter what!

FYI $39K in 2014 would be about $54K today, adjusted for inflation.

I think the lesson here is that the House wins and everybody else loses when there's gambling involved.

I do eat a Poptart every morning. I have for 40 years. But I don't eat the frosty ones with all the UFP spread all over them.

Crap like this is why the morons want to discredit science. Sometimes I almost want to join them. Because they say shit like this. UFP's aren't the best way to get nutrition but, as bad a cigarettes? No way. I've consumed a lot of both over the years. My health got a lot better after after I quit smoking. I didn't notice a big change when I quit drinking Coke. I should know, I work at one of those research institutions mentioned above.

I've been doing research for close to 50 years. I've never seen a situation where, if you wipe out 2 years work, it takes anything close to 2 years to recapitulate it. Actually, I don't even understand how this could happen to a plant scientist. Was all the data in one document? Did ChatGPT kill his plants? Are there no notebooks where the data is recorded? This kind of thing doesn't happen to a good scientist. Oh, I see. It's 2 years of work, not 2 years of research. This is just another sad "lack of backup" story. The modern day "my dog ate it".