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Comment Re:I'm impressed with their tenacity (Score 1) 228

> That's bold, considering the last flu vaccine round had a NEGATIVE 26.9% efficacy.
#followthescience / Yes, you read it right, if you were vaccinated you had a 27% HIGHER chance of getting the flu.
https://www.medrxiv.org/conten... [medrxiv.org]

Does the study tell you how the vaccinated and vaccinated groups where formed?

Comment Re:Troglodytes neophytes (Score 1) 52

> While you strut about acting like a non-EU citizen invented the WWW

I obviously didn't say or imply that. I'm also sure you know England was part of the EU from 1973 till 2020.

As to the rest of your comment, I get you don't want to play my game, so I'll stop with the examples.

I'll just add that your links clearly refute your statement: "The EU ... do not, and apparently are not capable of innovation".

Comment Re:eh (Score 1) 28

My thoughts too.

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I found this interesting:

"If a non-profit company decides to stop doing business and dissolve, it must distribute its assets among other non-profits ... If a benefit corporation decides to stop doing business and dissolves, the shareholders receive the proceeds of the sales of assets, after liabilities are paid.

https://www.delawareinc.com/bl...

Comment Re:indeed (Score 1) 85

> Seriously, how deranged are you?

As much as you ?

> the question of who invaded propaganda?

Of course it's not propaganda in itself, everyone knows who invaded who, it's uncontested.

It's like when you refer to uncontested Russian 'talking points' and how their recurring usage is common in Russian propaganda.

Comment Re:LLM!=AI (Score 1) 77

Thanks for your response.

Lamthecheese said AI creates knowledge, I think that depends on how knowledge and AI are defined, skipping AI's definition and over simplifying the rest, I think the answer goes from, AI can create knowledge in the way a tool can, all the way to AI doesn't create knowledge in the sense that a tool doesn't.

Gwehir said "Well, randomization can occasionally (very rarely) create new things, but only in low-complexity scenarios"

Which I probably disagree with. No sure why having lower complexity rather than higher complexity implies it's more likely that we'll get randomness creating knowledge.

> Life is nothing but a series of random mutations to DNA, guided by the universe's most complicated fitness function that we call natural selection.

Well, to not over argue it in a short comment, I'd just add 'near random' and I'm not willing to state something like 'the most complicated' knowing how little we know about the universe.

> Randomness created all the astronomically diverse and complicated lifeforms you see around you today.

I'd say it's not randomness that has as created all the astronomically diverse and complicated lifeforms we see around us today, it's everything that's going on that has, and randomness is an inseparable part of that.

>> ... Through error gradient backpropagation combined with MCMC optimization, we explored several protocols to generate sequences given a target structure using AF2based pipelines we call AF2design. We analyzed the generated sequences both in silico and in vitro, showing that our AF2based protocol can be leveraged for de novo protein design.

I think the idea of 'leverage' works fine here, but 'create' wouldn't.

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