theohusby.bsky.social
Biophotonics grad student, jaded Toronto cyclist, movie fan, voracious canadian news consumer.
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The first person perspective was such a great choice
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And your dad opened a drug store? Love that for him
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I also learned that woodchucks get Hepatitis B like people do.
It makes me wonder how these connections get made? Who is out there purifying honeybee venom? Who figured out that sperm whale myoglobin genes were the optimal source? Its such cool research!
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But the result is often squishy. A paper gets published showing that a ML model can measure something, but it’s purely empirical and q’s remain about generality. There’s obviously a place for AI/ML in research, but I think the “put the data in the model and check if it works” approach isn’t it.
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AI in medical biophysics research (my area) offers the tantalizing possibility of producing something novel without wading through mountains of background research. Just feed the data into a model and let it figure it out. And it often actually works! That’s attractive to new students.
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True, lol
If they ever put this in a film, I’d actually go see a marvel movie again
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I was just reading that pinnipeds are most closely related to mysteries, which include weasels and raccoons. Seeing this big guy heave himself around the enclosure makes that fact even more amazing
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Be my guest
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I was just thinking about that. I think we’ve got to. It’s untenable to cede the flag to right wingers. Even if there’s a risk of being mistaken for one, someone’s got to start changing the association.
Now I’ve just got to find the right T-shirt. 🤔
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I’m so stoked
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Listen, kid, da sky’s da limit.
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The magnetic field of a neutron star can be the highest observed anywhere in the universe, reaching up to 10^11 teslas (100 gigs teslas). A powerful MRI machine might have a 7 T field strength. It’s hard to even wrap your head around that number!
Everything about a neutron star is eye popping
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And we can look up at the sky and see them (with telescopes)!
Their magnetic fields accelerate charged particles to relativistic speeds at their poles. If that pole lines up with earth, the “pulsar” appears as a flashing point of light.
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- their tiny radiuses mean they spin up like a figure skater when they’re formed, spinning 100s of times per second. The fastest spinning at 716 Hz (42,960 rpm). For contrast, a car’s engine redlines at 8,000 rpm if you’re lucky. 716 Hz means the surface speed is 24% of light speed.
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
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Whatever knock on effects it has are incidental to that AI company selling a product and making money.
The problem is lack of forethought and indifference to the consequences. Not some evil scheme.