Currently working on #cheminformatics, #bioinformatics, sociology of #science, and some #astronomy @ EPFL.
Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in #Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of #cats, #Punk Rock, and #Hockey.
"Coca-Cola used AI to create its newest flavor"
Of course the company that (allegedly) hired paramilitary thugs to kill unionising workers in Colombia is using "AI" to create its newest flavour.
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/coke-s-latest-mystery-flavour-is-here-it-s-created-by-ai-1.6558252
Due to extensive flooding, ~20% of Greece's agricultural production is gone for at least the next 5 years.
(Source (oh the irony): https://www.ft.com/content/b46d34c0-fef8-45f2-8930-a01c10b4d13a)
@imsodin that's pretty cool though 👍🏻👍🏻 and for code quality in publications, well, the bar is quite low there 😉
@FourT4 It was definitely a guy who drew it though
@AstroMichi that was shockingly recent
115 years ago, the Swiss voted to make absinthe illegal. The cause for many to vote yes was the case of a vineyard worker in Vaud—before murdering his wife and children, he drank 2 glasses of absinthe (in addition to the daily 5 litres of wine)
@imsodin Cool! Do you have it online somewhere?
@victor_tokarev It's based on the van der Waals radii. :-)
@imsodin My own to up to writing out a .ply file and then just opened it in meshlab du take a snapshot
In case you've been wondering what a molecule looks like from the inside—at least a rendered one. ;-)
@jens2go the sooner the better... 🖖
Hey did you know ‘Iraq’ is not synonymous with war & destruction? #Iraq is #Mesopotamia. The cradle of civilisations. It gave us the first known writings, first poet & first known laws of humanity. Also more recently some of the kindest people I know and the best ‘istikan’ of tea 🤗
216 years ago, China banned the trade of opium due to a worsening "opium epidemic". However, the British, who were the main exporters of opium into China, weren't happy about that and invaded the country. The first opium war had begun.
First Opium War - Wikipedia
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Opium_War
@energisch_ Ok. I have to update my instance at some point when I have some point soon.
@dasrecht The thing with distributed system is a bit of an ideological issue for me, as I think that becoming more individualistic and less dependent on common "things" is the very last thing ours society needs right now.
@energisch_ Hmm, I wonder whether it worked. I had to reupload the image when editing to add the alt text.
@energisch_ Thank you, I will add the caption asap.
