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same! I was excited to see something so esoteric from my grad school days come up

Check out SSCD from Meta https://github.com/facebookresearch/sscd-copy-detection (full disclosure: I am an employee who has worked with this team before internally, but I was not a…

Number of times I've had a true positive alert from Apple's new device tracking notifications: 0 Number of times I've had false positives due to intermittent connectivity issues wi…

Ha! A friend sent me this comment when he recognized this project. Unless there happens to be another firm who did the exact same thing we did, I was a part of this project (see th…

Instagram doesn't do facial recognition though, so this seems pretty baseless.

I'm surprised and skeptical about some of this. In particular: We also measured networks across more than 90,000 Microsoft employees in the United States. Frankly, we expected to s…

[source: PhD in drug design specializing in G-protein coupled receptor pharmacology] Drugs like LSD form non-covalent bonds with receptors. In a macro-world analogy, think of your …

> Personally, I think that the effective ban on psychedelic research is a crime against science and mental healthcare - given its immense potential...I am happy to we are slowly st…

BJ's models are breathtakingly simple and universally applicable. Highly recommended reading

This whole thing seems overblown. The conditions required to induce NDMA accumulation are so far outside the normal bounds as to be farcical. Every drug I’ve ever seen advises you …

Incredible. I wish people would take themselves less seriously like this. I would never have read that paper and learned a bit about that space if it hadn't been such an engaging r…

They top out at 15 mph in SF. I wish they went faster. I am a cyclist and usually maintain close to 20 mph (not counting lights). It's kind of maddening not to be able to go 20 or …

At a sufficiently large scale, even rare events happen constantly.

Can confirm

No. Did you read the OP's article? I'll excerpt a relevant section for you: Although the current focus on isolation is often described in the media as “the loneliness epidemic,” Ro…

5:33 no

>“Because Facebook is already in the hands of over a quarter of the world’s population, it is imperative that Facebook and its partners immediately cease implementation plans until…

Yep. I recently spent a day driving an S5 and S6, and the non-touchscreen carplay was terrible. I have a touchscreen version in my 2017 CR-V, and it is a joy to use. I read the com…

haters gonna hate

Hoping for you too. It's in my mom's side of my family. I'm fortunate that my mom didn't inherit, but it's a large family so many loved ones weren't so lucky. That's why I studied …

It's a fucking desert.

That is pretty funny. The more you know. I was just a grad student and met Shoichet at conferences.

I have been out of this space for a few years (transitioned to data science from drug discovery), but from my time doing in silico and in vitro work, a major issue with docking was…

Yeah, that's a pretty strong signal that your account got used for some nefarious shit.

I've heard this about Instagram, too, which makes sense I guess since they have the same ad infrastructure. One woman I was talking to the other week said her favorite thing about …