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RT @heymingwei
With the same 43 million entries loaded (with correct types) into a local PostgreSQL, a SQLite, and a @duckdb, without manually creating any indexes, I run the following simple query, and here is the timing result:

Postgres: 3.5s
SQLite: 6.7s
DuckDB: 0.0067s

Pure magic.

RT @AlinejadMasih
Today in the seventh month of nationwide protests in Iran, the people of #Zahedan once again came to the streets and shouted:

"Mullahs Should Go to Hell."

The revolution of the Iranian people to overthrow the Islamic Republic is still ongoing.

#WomanLifeFreedom #MahsaAmini‌

RT @osanseviero
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RT @MoscowTimes
The Moscow Times has compiled a comprehensive list of the 7 known Wagner burial sites in Russia. To date, over 1,000 graves have been found at cemeteries across the country, shedding light on the mounting death toll suffered by Russian forces in Ukraine. https://rb.gy/ba4b2

RT @emollick
This paper is a preview of the potential disruption from AI.

The jobs that are most exposed to AI are the ones that require the most education, are the most creative & earn the most. This is a population that never faced a major automation threat before. https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4414065

RT @Bijan63
Dit is niet Rome of Madrid, maar Teheran, #Iran vandaag!

Iraanse vrouwen willen niet toegeven en komen hier m steun v mannen in actie, zonder d verplichte hijab.

De geestelijken zullen moeten wennen aan het zien v vrije vrouwen. Het wordt een hete zomer!

RT @k_sonin
The Russian state TV tells the viewers about Ukrainians bombing Donetsk and illustrate it with videos from Uman, where Russian missiles killed 23 peaceful Ukrainans, including 6 kids, yesterday. Every time you think they cannot sink lower, they still can. Via @CurrentTimeTv. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652336970444439554

RT @SjorsScheres
On the pacific island of Guam, and the Kii peninsula of Japan, indigenous people have suffered from a mysterious neurodegenerative disease, called ALS/PDC with symptoms from #Alzheimers, #Parkisonsons & #motorneuron disease.

RT @dr_cintas
This new study is eye-opening.

The authors compared Physicians vs AI Chatbot responses to patient questions posted to a public social media forum.

The results?

Patients preferred ChatGPT 79% of the time. 79%! 🤯

Not only AI responses were rated of higher quality but also more… https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1652318793777963013

RT @emollick
This is quite the paper!

It gave 25 AI agents motivations & memory, and put them in a simulated town.

Not only did they engage in complex behavior (including throwing a Valentine’s Day party) but the actions were rated more human than humans roleplaying. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2304.03442.pdf

RT @danshipper
GPT-4 does drug discovery.

Give it a currently available drug and it can:

- Find compounds with similar properties
- Modify them to make sure they're not patented
- Purchase them from a supplier (even including sending an email with a purchase order) https://twitter.com/i/web/status/1635712019549786113

RT @OpenAI
Announcing GPT-4, a large multimodal model, with our best-ever results on capabilities and alignment: https://openai.com/product/gpt-4

RT @AdrianoAguzzi
A paper mill is offering me a $50'000 bribe to publish a pile of fake papers in the journal of which I am the editor in chief. The financial dimensions of this corrupt underwood of are staggering.

RT @mbk_center
Russian student Yegor Balazeykin (16) has been accused of terrorism for trying to set fire to a military recruitment centre.He was threatened with rape and beating.He suffers from chronic hepatitis, without medical care it can lead to cirrhosis
Yegor faces up to 15 years in jail

RT @danberridge
I'm speechless.

Not peer-reviewed yet but a submitted paper.

The 'presented images' were shown to a group of humans. The 'reconstructed images' were the result of an fMRI output to Stable Diffusion.

In other words, #stablediffusion literally read people's minds.

Source 👇

RT @EmilioMorenatti
Tymofii, 5, cries with his mother Alla, next to the body of his father Kostiantyn, 35, during his funeral in Borova,Ukraine, Feb. 18, 2023. Kostiantyn Kostiuk, a civilian who was a volunteer in the armed forces of Ukraine, was killed during a battle against Russians near Bakhmut.

RT @RubinsteinJohn
New preprint!
Bedaquiline revolutionized MDR #TB treatment by inhibiting mycobacterial ATP synthase.
@CourbonGautier now shows how 2nd gen diarylquinolines from @TBAlliance improve affinity, & how squaramides discovered by @AstraZeneca target a new pocket
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.02.03.527018v1

RT @deniswirtz
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RT @RubinsteinJohn
Now published!
@hanlinw222 shows how V-ATPase, a molecular machine that pumps protons, uses other molecular machines to assemble it correctly and ensure it is activated only in the right place at the right time.
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2217181120

RT @Gerashchenko_en
Vitalii received a serious head wound on Donbas. His progress is slow.

Vitalii's dad doesn't leave his bedside for five months. He cares for his son and reads him supportive comments.

Wishing Vitalii a complete recovery.

📹: Radio Svoboda