Where are my mod points when I need them? This is the same logic to be applied even for psychopaths who think they are the smartest (Jeff Skilling claimed to be "fucking smart", and whole lot of people buy it to this day!).
I don't know how this was modded +4 Insightful. It makes no sense whatsoever. This guy says BEVs are going to be obsoleted by renewable hydrocarbon technology! Have you ever owned an electric vehicle? Have you even driven one?
I own an EV and a pure gas SUV (for all longer trips and whole family trips). The difference is night and day. EVs have an amazing drive feel, amazingly efficient on a Joule/km basis, and absolutely amazing in terms of reliability and maintenance (none in the 3 years I've owned my Leaf with 40000 km on it).
I wouldn't say dead. But they can focus on other challenges more amenable to distributed computing and first principle based algorithms (e.g. docking, complex prediction etc). I would think Deep Mind could go after protein-protein complexes as well actually.
Blue Gene etc were being applied to fold proteins based on first principles (i.e. physics and numerical methods). Deep Mind however has side-stepped that whole process of solving through fundamental understanding and got to the solution. The good things however are:
(1) It does use some of our fundamental learnings about protein structure.
(2) We get to solve more applied problems, leaving the physics based methods to continue to develop, which will probably have other applications (like de novo design of catalysts, molecular machines etc).
You are correct. It is not practical. The current energy functions are not perfect. Even if you assume that they are good enough, the compute power needed doesn't exist yet. When I was in grad school I was of the feeling that only quantum computing can solve this problem (because in reality, protein folding is a kind of quantum computational problem, which is just collapsed into a good enough solution - or so I thought).
CASP competition doesn't classify proteins into various types. They only categorize based on type of prediction (e.g. ab initio versus homology modeling etc). But they do list the actual proteins that were the targets for prediction. See list here.
Yes, geoengineering that doesnâ(TM)t need human resolve and economics to scale. Time to engineer a methanotrophic psychrophile and let it loose. It will rapidly propagate because of its selective advantage, to our benefit.
Time to engineer a methanotrophic psychrophile and let it loose.
Sure this is not about protection from the virus. But if you think this was about protecting jobs, then think again. Because then he would stop the H1Bs and other temporary work visas. Green card wait is what actually leads to low wage slavery. But he is not stopping the work visas, so people will continue to come in for low wages. He is stopping the green cards, which indicates that this has another agenda.
Can't believe the parent post is getting voted down. Lots of blind people here it looks like...
I don't see this being mentioned anywhere. But in the US and most of Europe, cows are lined up and shot (not exactly with a bullet but with a bolt) into their brain, making them continue standing stunned with their heart beating while their brain matter mixes with the blood. The blood with brain matter of course reaches several organs and tissues by the time the cow is killed and the meat is harvested. This to me is the worst way to kill a cow in terms of human health safety, though it maybe humane. The halaal/kosher way of killing the cow is much safer, but seemingly brutal. As a protein bioinformatics person I had an academic interest in the folding and stability of prions at some point of time, and they are very scary imo. I always wonder how much of a factor this is in the rise of amyloid diseases in western populations. I personally haven't ever eaten red meat at all, which I believe is the best thing. But if you are going to go for cow meat, at least this factor has to be addressed.
I often hear metabolism being pointed out. I am interested in metabolism as well and I think they maybe a factor as well, but through a different mechanism such as blood circulation and oxygenation issues.
Isn't Avast basically free? If you are not paying, you are the product. (I don't imply that if you pay you are not the product). So just don't use free services as much as possible. And for those you pay, read the privacy policy and do some research if their privacy policies are respected and implemented.
Yeah but the bison weren't eating grain. Grass is digested way better and causes a fraction of the gas that grain eating cows produce. Today's meat industry feed is mostly grain and soy meal.
Beijing-based Sinovel, which provided three-quarters of Massachusetts-based American Superconductor's revenue, refused to accept a shipment of electronic components for its wind turbines — and wouldn't pay millions of dollars it owed for them. The reasons it gave were ambiguous.
Within weeks, the company concluded that Sinovel had somehow obtained the source code for its electronic components and was installing a pirated version in the wind turbines it sold.
"Participation in the Chinese market is for Chinese companies only. Your participation as a Western company, at least to date, is a mirage. They're there to bring you in, be able to figure a way to harvest whatever they can from you, and then spit you out when you're no longer useful."
The biggest difference between time and space is that you can't reuse time. -- Merrick Furst
