it is frustrating that we keep communicating science to the public via this mechanism (The Media*) that is at best imperfect about communicating impact and probability of success and timing.

Just because it is added on top of our grants doesn't mean somebody else covers it - every cent of indirects could have been spent e.g. on decent PhD student salaries instead.

Just one more comment - As a researcher from across the pond who looks at the research that American scientists produce with amazement and awe, it is nothing short of heartbreaking to see what is happening with US research.

Fresh off the presses:
In "Learning on compressed molecular representations" Jan Weinreich and I looked into whether GZIP performed better than Neural Networks in chemical machine learning tasks. Yes, you've read that right.

TL;DR: Yes, GZIP can perform better than baseline GNNs and MLPs. It can ..

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Made a starter pack for computational chemists, let me know who I missed please

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MSAs go brrr with MMseqs2-GPU! Super fun project, happy to work with and learn from a stellar team of engineers and scientists. Try it out and stay tuned!

📄 Preprint: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1...
💾 Code: mmseqs.com
🗞️ Blog: developer.nvidia.com/blog/boost-a...

How the project happens –– How we write the paper