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A method for integrating externally calculated potentials from any Python package of interest into OpenMM, courtesy of ByteDance, which I must stress again is the parent company of TikTok
January 2, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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More evidence that protein folding NNs have learned a crude approximation of an energy function, though the authors here suggest it is at the local level exclusively, because it is only able to make incremental refinements in the absence of coevolutionary data academic.oup.com/bioinformati...
December 4, 2024 at 5:10 PM
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New blogpost: The ABCs of Alphafold 3, Boltz and Chai-1

blog.booleanbiotech.com/alphafold3-b...
Boolean Biotech
blog.booleanbiotech.com
November 30, 2024 at 4:44 PM
starter pack concept is cool but they are IMO also reinforcing credentialism
November 25, 2024 at 9:18 PM
Practical: Sun will blow up in ~5 billion years, redundancy is probably good.

Not as practical: New frontiers / ambition are inspiring.

But, IMO, it's implicitly practical to have unifying goals ... could help reduce what feels like a lot of zero-sum dynamics in our culture rn.
I'm fascinated by the intuitive differences in people's response to going to space

Some people: "Why should we go? What will be the practical applications? Aren't there better priorities on earth?"

Other people: "It's just obvious!!! How can you not see it?"
November 20, 2024 at 8:59 PM
best pre-chatgpt internet dataset? c4?
November 19, 2024 at 8:21 PM
idk
February 6, 2024 at 5:18 PM