rastinza @rastinza@qoto.org
Italian, MSc in chemistry specialized in cheminformatics and QSAR.
I'm interested in cooking and building stuff.
I love traveling, I lived in India, China, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.
Currently working in Spain in the field of genomics; and doing a PhD in Drug Development using Quantum Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence.
Don't take what I say as an insult, I have no bad intentions and I'm open to talk about it.
Don't star my toots, I find that often useless: if you liked it send a reply.
Consider boosting the toots, it's the only real way in which stuff is propagated through mastodon.
Joined Feb 2022
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But is this correlation or causation? It seems almost like Black folk are suggesting that police activity *causes* more murders to happen?
We can test this (and we have!) by seeing what happens if you go into a neighborhood with a lot of murders, and get police to stop brutalizing innocent Black people, and focus only on stopping murders.
Result: You can end a murder wave in a city by getting cops to focus on murders instead of being evil.
Operation Ceasefire works.
https://www.npr.org/2011/11/01/141803766/interrupting-violence-with-the-message-dont-shoot
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The carbon footprint of NFTs on Ethereum wasn’t looking great before The Merge, but it was nothing compared to on-chain Bitcoin NFTs
Yesterday Bitcoin mining company Luxor mined the largest block ever, containing almost exactly 4MB of data. Only 63 transactions could fit into the block, as the NFT used up the rest of the available space
The carbon footprint: ~888 metric tons of CO2, equivalent to the per passenger carbon footprint of taking a flight from New York to Tokyo and back - 466 times
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Non saper guidare come status symbol!
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In this quest for independence from centralized social media, I'm wondering...does anyone still use RSS?
For any of you who do, what is the experience of using RSS in 2023? Are there any RSS apps that are pleasant to use? Sites (other than big content publishers) that publish a feed?
(Please share for visibility if you have followers who might have experience to share.)
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A couple very rough estimates retrieved quickly in 5 minutes from official Elsevier data.
RELX, the company which owns Elsevier has a capitalization of 56£ billion. Elsevier publishes around 600.000 articles per year and the average price per submission is 2350£ (simple average over submission price in every journal, not counting amount of articles published.)
The average subscription price for each journal is 3524£, I'll assume 600.000 subscription just to have a number.
This means that research institutes and universities overall would pay around 3.5£ billion to Elsevier every year. By saving that money, we could collectively buy Elsevier in less than 10 years.
Maybe we should set up an association, every time you pay money to Elsevier you'd have to make a donation to such association with the objective of buying the majority of RELX.
This would be an economically sound decision.
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Exciting to see a new protein generative diffusion model in preprint! We look forward to trying the Genie model from Mohammed AlQuraishi https://www.aqlab.io/ https://arxiv.org/abs/2301.12485 #ai #proteinengineering #proteinai #drugdiscovery
I found this service: https://fetchrss.com
They are able to convert a facebook page in a rss feed and 5 of these feeds are for free.
My internet connection has been extremely slow for months: when connecting to certain websites I'd have to wait several minutes to load the page. However, the connection is very quick when I transfer data.
Recently, I decided to investigate. Apparently my company is dropping connection to a vast amount of domains; this wouldn't be a problem, if they didn't include a lot of CDN among those domains.
I asked the IT technician, who said that the security system mistakes CDNs for spam addresses.
Now people, host your own style sheets please, as I otherwise have to wait several minutes to get bootstrap, which you use for setting a header and nothing more.
I'm amazed by the fact that hundreds of people work here and nobody ever complained about it...
Fuck CDN, Fuck people dropping packets rather than rejecting them.
#internet #disservizioIT #CDN #firewall
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Yep, for those who won we don't actually know how long they may have survived. Each season there is only 1 winner (except S4). The winners would need to survive ~2.3x longer than they did to balance the average days lasted for men and women. With that in mind I think this is a fair metric to compare genders more generally.
Ho smesso di fumare, non per la salute o robe del genere.
Dopo anni di onesto scrocco professionale ho dovuto cominciare a comprare tabacco perché il mio coinquilino fumatore si lamentava che gliene scroccavo troppe.
Però allora non ci stò, non voglio mica comprarlo il tabacco, poi così non c'è gusto.
Almeno prima quando avevo voglia di fumare andavo a farmi un giro e mi facevo una chiacchierata con qualcuno, ora ero arrivato al punto di fumare tutti i giorni in casa da solo.
Sto avendo una fervente discussione epistolare con Massimo Fini ed ho provato ad utilizzare #ChatGTP per rimettermi le frasi un po' a posto.
Mi ha sparato fuori questa perla "Meglio non riportare i dati in modo errato, piuttosto che riportarli del tutto."
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@rastinza @aspuru @KellyKellyKelly@masto.ai
#ChatGPT is even more useful when asking stuff that you know very well and that can't fool you. By knowing it you can quickly read a lot of answers and most of the time there are relevant details you never heard of or connections you didn't make.
I'm currently experimenting with a #GPT3 plugin for #Logseq that can be used to generate more content alongside my notes to keep it in context and eventually reworked manually; here there is an example (in Italian) with machine generated sentences highlighted:
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Oh hey, abled people, do you know what spoons are in the disability community?
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@rastinza @KellyKellyKelly wow that is incredible ! Do you have a screenshot ? I didn’t know that #ChatGPT knew my group and it’s work :)
I mean, 5 minutes ago I didn't know what an MTT assay was. It was what I had in mind and what I was more or less searching for, but had no specific idea of how it worked and what it was.
Now I know what it is and I know where to find specific information about the methodology if I need to.
And I even had the time to write this post...
Normally, I'd have to find a review about these methodologies and skim through it to find the one I was interested in.
Italian, MSc in chemistry specialized in cheminformatics and QSAR.
I'm interested in cooking and building stuff.
I love traveling, I lived in India, China, Slovenia, Poland and Spain.
Currently working in Spain in the field of genomics; and doing a PhD in Drug Development using Quantum Mechanics and Artificial Intelligence.
Don't take what I say as an insult, I have no bad intentions and I'm open to talk about it.
Don't star my toots, I find that often useless: if you liked it send a reply.
Consider boosting the toots, it's the only real way in which stuff is propagated through mastodon.
Joined Feb 2022
