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Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Working on the above as an Assistant Prof at WUR. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of cats, Punk Rock, and Hockey.
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So, it looks like somone from the University of Zürich let an LLM loose on a subreddit for research purposes. The big issue is that none of the subjects agreed to "join". cw mention of SA in the image.

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This is my hero for today, maybe for this month!

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Compared to last year, the price of books increased by 1.2%, while that of flights decreased by 8% in Switzerland. public.flourish.studio/visualisatio...

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Nice

submitted 7 hours ago • 1 comment

As liberation day draws closer here in the Netherlands, I'm reading up on Dutch resistance and am once more reminded that unlike the last time, none of the groups that actually resisted hard and early are here anymore. Not in Europe and certainly not in the US.

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Adding obviously generated images that look like the usual Frankensteinian child of Pixar and 1,000s of artists' stolen work (but lacking any originality, thought, or soul) to your post is a bit... cringe.

submitted 10 hours ago • 0 comments

Cup Final! 😁

submitted 23 hours ago • 1 comment

I currently have to edit a document in Word, and it seems that you can now contribute to the destruction of the planet and hide plagiarism with a simple ctrl+v.

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

🎉 Our latest paper "Exploring Simple Drug Scaffolds from the Generated Database Chemical Space Reveals a Chiral Bicyclic Azepane with Potent Neuropharmacology" is now published in Journal of Medicinal Chemistry! Read the full version here👉https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.jmedchem.4c02549

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And this time with tags... we are advertising for a fixed-term post: www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DMU792/l... #CompChem #ChemSky #iTeachChem #chemjobber

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TIL: The papal conclave has a maximum voting age of 80.

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Did I just watch this one-hour video of a guy restoring an old-ish console instead of sleeping? Maaaybe...?

submitted 5 days ago • 1 comment

This quote from Benjamin's "The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction", a relevant book today IMO, hits hard in times of generative "art"... "[Humanity's] self-alienation has reached such a degree that it can experience its own destruction as an aesthetic pleasure of the first order."

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