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May 27, 2023

See new Tweets Conversation T𑀣ᑏI 🇦🇱🇺🇸 @RexKwonDo92 Me when I finish watching Oppenheimer and get ready to watch Barbie immediately afterwards

Barbie and Oppenheimer are coming out the same day, I guess Barbie is the palate cleanser? Not sure.

Jacob Austin @jacobaustin132 Excited to see a blog post on one of the coolest projects I've worked on at Google: using LLMs to automatically resolve code-review comments for Google engineers! 1/n — src

The underlying article might be the first time I've ever seen officially published screenshots of our IDE or code review tools. Anyway, this is a really cool project.

Jeremy Horpedahl 🤷‍♂️ @jmhorp It only took 90 minutes cnn.com A new type of antibiotic, discovered with artificial intelligence, may defeat a dangerous superbug... Using artificial intelligence, researchers say, they’ve found a new type of antibiotic that works against a particularly menacing drug-resistant bacteria. — src

Sounds like they generated training data for this specific bacteria based on 7500 examples with 480 positives, then used the model on another 6000 examples. I'm a bit confused about why they only ran the model against 6000 examples, seems like the training set was already better data than what they got during inference?

See new Tweets Conversation Eli Dourado @elidourado The current Artemis mission architecture is unbelievably profligate. Even this screencap only scratches the surface. https://arstechnica.com/space/2023/05/a-new-report-finds-nasa-has-spent-an-obscene-amount-of-money-on-sls-propulsion/ — src

If I understand correctly, these Artemis engines are also single use! That million dollar SpaceX engine will fly multiple times.

See new Tweets Conversation spencer 🐡 @Unpop_Science This is interesting: When you survey consumers on why they don’t eat veggie burgers, the top answer is taste. But when you give them a blind taste test, they rank veggie burgers higher than beef… and half of testers can’t tell them apart. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0963996923003587?via%3Dihub

A Sensory Study on Consumer Valuation for Plant-Based Meat Alternatives:
What is liked and disliked the most?

54.11% correct Identification of Beef Burger

Blind Ranking Result:
1st: Animal-like Protein
2nd: 100% Beef
3rd: Pea Protein
4th: Hybrid Meat &
Mushroom

Blind Tasting Treatment
Group (n = 85)
Informed Tasting
Treatment Group
(n = 90)
Informed Ranking Result:
1st: Animal-like Protein
2nd: 100% Beef
3rd: Hybrid Meat &
Mushroom
4th: Pea Protein

Icons made by FreePik from www.flaticon.com — src

In both blind and informed contexts, people prefered the Impossible burger to the real beef! Blind they found the beef to be equal to the other veggie options.

Special Puppy 🧦🐵 @SpecialPuppy1 · 10h Another poll finds that liberals and Democratic voters are more YIMBY than conservatives and Republican voters. https://echelonin.wpenginepowered.com/wp-content/uploads/May-2023-Omnibus-Crosstabs-EXTERNAL.pdf — src

Democrats are more YIMBY than Republicans, but if you phrase it right, you can get both groups way over 50%

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