Feng Zhang@zhangf
1/ Inspired by the machinery used by endosymbiotic bacteria to deliver protein payloads to their host animals’ cells, we sought to engineer these systems, called contractile injection systems (CISs), for delivery to human cells.
7:39 PM · Mar 29, 2023
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You can click through to the thread for more details, but apparently they used AlphaFold to help with the design of this molecular syringe, which can target specific cell types.
John Nay@johnjnay
Forums for LLM Agents to Communicate Can Improve Outputs
1) Human provides task
2) "Decider" Agent produces output
3) "Researcher" & Decider Agents discuss
4) Decider decides
Big improvement over base GPT4 on medical summarization & care plan generation
arxiv.org/abs/2303.17071
2:15 PM · Apr 1, 2023
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Reading through the examples of conversations between the 'decider' and the 'researcher' AIs was interesting. It's wild how normal human language is the way these advanced AIs communicate with each other, making it possible to clearly understand what's happening.
Steve Chernoski@nsjersey
This is basically a 20-year gap. Wow.
2:02 PM · Apr 1, 2023
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Possibly related, maps of lung cancer and of obesity.
Wally Nowinski@Nowooski
People will be like “America doesn’t have universal healthcare because we spend all our money on the military” without ever acknowledging that military spending is at its lowest level relative GDP of any point in their lives.
12:42 AM · Apr 3, 2023
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Also useful, here's a stacked graph of all spending over time.
Science Is Strategic@scienceisstrat1
Moo’s Law 🐄 🔬
The cost of cultivated meat is plummeting (1/3)
Cc: @azeem @nathanbenaich @ramez
9:42 PM · Apr 2, 2023
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Here are the milestones 1 through 4, worth noting that while the cost has come down, it's not like they're distributing it nationally yet.