Summaries and Code by Nick Doiron
Jump to: AI safety says no How science discovered prion diseases Current AI research into folding prion protein Compiling a dataset Convincing ChatGPT to give me a lift Actually folding Concluding thoughts Back in the olden days, I remember the SETI @ home screensaver. This quickly inspired Folding @ home, and a pop science article introduced me to the concept of protein folding. I recently idly…
I am trying to take a break from some snacking habits and Reddit (where I've at least voted on something daily for over a year). If you have a Google-linked account you get logged back in automatically, so I used NoScript on desktop and Desktop mode on mobile to make the pages less readable. Will I start writing more deliberately? Or will I shift my snarky comments on Hacker News? It remains to be…
This week I had planned for two days in DC, and after my flight got moved, ended up with one. I managed to visit the National Geographic Museum of Exploration (brand new), Lincoln Memorial Undercroft (reopened after almost 40 years), and the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum (renovated in time for their 50th anniversary on July 1st). After working with a DC-area client in early 2019 and a quick visit…
I remember an internship over a decade ago where I wrote all of my code in Notepad++. Because of some old projects, my go-to editor over SSH is nano. And I gave up Atom just a couple of years ago. I'm not going to pretend that these were especially smart or innovative habits, but what they did is center a feeling: I need a mental model of the codebase, where to find files and tests, so when the…
back in the museum world
Students sought refuge in southern China during World War II
Story of a guerilla fighter
I have no inside insight into this but some thoughts - https://12gramsofcarbon.com/p/tech-things-there-is-a-massive-shadow - is an interesting piece on the absurdity around the government's Fable ban, and other weird developments such as Bernie Sanders being "the most AI pilled member of Congress". Note: I think Sanders is realizing the big AI IPO moment is now, and trying to connect to the real…
Test of the blog
I'm making progress on reading two books which go well together, Lianda , a combination of Chinese universities which relocated to Kunming during World War II Alias Chin Peng , an account of the war and following Malayan Emergency by the Communist guerilla leader I also got two volumes of a Pulitzer-winning George Washington biography. But for now, AFK post: I'd never heard of this moment in…