In the future, berklocene may help humanity to safely dispose of nuclear waste.
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Here, the authors introduce Martini3-IDP, a refined model for disordered proteins that addresses prior over-compact structures. Validated across diverse systems, it captures IDP interactions and biomolecular condensates.
There is a point where science and spirituality converge.
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To prevent similar incidents from reoccurring in the future, Cloudflare has improved credential logging and verification and now mandates the use of automated deployment tooling to avoid human errors.
The company is also updating standard operating procedures (SOPs) to require dual validation for high-impact actions like credential rotation and plans to enhance health checks for faster root cause detection.
Cloudflare’s R2 service suffered another 1-hour long outage in February, which was also caused by a human error.
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A couple weeks ago, I participated in the Mercor x Etched x Cognition Hackathon. The theme of the hackathon was “inference-time compute”— and this is what I worked on for 24 hours, with some added rigor, visualizations, and analysis.
You can view the original work here and the code here — my contribution is the hallucinations section for both.
Thanks to Allison Lim and Vijay Kumaravelrajan (alphabetical order) for helping me edit this!
The Sydney start-up is part of Australia’s burgeoning domestic defence industry, which increasingly features not just local subsidiaries of big multinationals, but also a growing number of homegrown firms.
Here I interview Brian Cutter in person to talk about arguments against physicalism. Do they work?
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OUTLINE
0:00 Intro.
0:15 Physicalism.
3:10 Non-physicalism.
5:50 Many-subjects argument.
30:20 Sensory awareness arguments.
36:31 Conceivability arguments.
51:48 Inconceivability argument.
56:58 Knowledge argument.
1:08:07 Explanatory gap arguments.
1:12:51 Arguments from personal identity.
1:20:07 Mereological nihilism argument.
1:28:38 Just too different!
1:32:07 Other arguments.
1:33:06 The best argument against dualism?
1:46:17 Conclusion.
RESOURCES.
“The universe still holds surprises beyond our imagination,” astrophysicist Shankar Ray said.
The success of in vitro fertilization depends on many factors, one of which is sperm viability. A recent study from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign documents a new way to select viable sperm and prolong their viability in the laboratory, reducing one source of variability during the process. The work is published in the journal Scientific Reports.
“The fallopian tube in women, or the oviduct, has an ability to lengthen sperm lifespan that, until now, we couldn’t recreate in IVF. In 2020, we discovered that complex sugars called glycans are the components of the oviduct that can bind and store sperm and keep them alive,” said senior study author David Miller, professor in the Department of Animal Sciences, part of the College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences at Illinois.
Miller’s group collaborated with chemists to test hundreds of oviduct glycans for their ability to bind pig sperm, settling on one called sulfated Lewis X trisaccharide, or suLeX, for further testing. They focused on pig sperm not only as a proof of concept for future human studies, but also because animal agriculture relies on IVF, too. In pig IVF, multiple sperm often fertilize single eggs, resulting in inviable embryos. The hope with using glycans was that fewer free-swimming sperm would approach and fertilize eggs simultaneously.