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Re:Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude on Wednesday October 28, 2026 @02:30AM (#50269894)
"beyond the most commonly discussed applications of AI, like proposing initial designs for new molecules". at this stage it's all waffle, all marketing, all hope. i don't know why we share these posts, it's just marketing
Re:GLP-1 may slow biological aging on Saturday October 17, 2026 @01:41PM (#50133194)
it's low quality research. you don't need to point to perceived conflicts of interest. the drug is semaglutide, not a merck or gsk product. and semaglutide is coming of patent anyway
Re:A 'Holy Grail' of Science Is Getting Closer on Thursday January 09, 2025 @11:28AM (#42647219)
unless youre looking for a phd topic, a lot of this stuff is a matter of: wake me when it happens
Re:Is California too liberal to moderate Facebook? on Wednesday January 08, 2025 @04:47PM (#42638797)
liberal is the wrong word, clearly
they need to stop
Re:Ask HN: Does Duolingo Work? on Monday December 09, 2024 @05:31AM (#42364787)
a limited amount, eg when i walked by the news stand i could try to read the headlines on the newspapers, or read the menu at a restuarant, that was about it. some languages are very hard to hear. but it's fun to use, that's the big difference. i have used other apps and they're tedious and boring. an app doesn't work at all if you don't use it
Re:Ask HN: How are you planning around AI uncertainty? on Wednesday September 25, 2024 @05:55AM (#41645575)
as someone else said, these concerns have existed before and amounted to nothing, so those of us who have aged are not easily agitated. in science a deep understanding of a method is only realised if you write the code to implement it. many mediocre scientists will turn to ai tools and make many mistakes because they cannot validate