I know I'm not objective because Duncan has become a "would lie in front of traffic for" person to me, but I think this is really going to knock a lot of peoples' socks off. He and his team have done incredible things using human artistry to stretch the capabilities of Unreal Engine.
WE DEMAND THE DUNCAN SILLY VOICES CUT ON THE 4K!
I like how when Nick Cave was called out for saying a mean, snarky thing about the Red Hot Chili Peppers, his response was "Flea is a tremendous human being."
The BlueSky algorithm is improving. I’m getting more uplifting dog videos on my “For You.” I approve.
The burned tree stump on the hiking trail looks like a giant buried metalhead throwing the goat.
Seeing this smile makes every morning better.
There will never be a movie or show that recaptures the magic of Star Wars because a movie or show isn't actually capable of making you twelve years old again.
So which of his relatives shorted oil before the announcement?
The problem with Nixon's "madman theory" of negotiation is that sometimes you're dealing with an actual madman...
Glad you’re here, Gary!
Oracle's market cap is greater than Iran's GDP.
At this point, smart evil would be an improvement over incompetent evil.
A good chewy oatmeal raisin cookie is life itself.
Love you, man, but I'm with Nick Cave: "I don’t think we can separate the art from the artist...we can look at a piece of art as the transformed or redeemed aspect of an artist, and marvel at the miraculous journey that the work of art has taken to arrive at the better part of the artist’s nature."
Adore her.
The visual joke from the Simpsons prohibition episode where Moe asks "Who wants a bathtub mint julep?" never fails to crack me up.
No.
Explain.
There's a sneering critique of the No Kings rallies as being mostly old people that I don't understand at all. Isn't the big criticism of boomers that they're too self absorbed? So seeing them out there protesting for the sake of future generations should be inspiring.
I am belatedly realizing that the reason this meme has existed since before memes existed is because Leonard Nimoy actually looked like a total badass with a goatee.
Two California ravens watching us.
You will weep when you see the amazing items Costco food courts in other countries serve that we can't get here.
Much better for not getting titanium particles into your lungs.
Come on, man, Thor: Love and Thunder wasn't THAT bad.
Congrats to Jonathan the tortoise on his Oscar win last night. I had no idea he had such range.
Our daughter is extremely happy that K Pop Demon Hunters won. This is the beginning and end of my Oscar commentary for the night.
Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog The tale of this heartbroken tech entrepreneur, his tumour-riddled rescue dog and a cure for cancer has leading scientists astounded. Natasha Bita Education Editor
With 17 years of experience in machine learning and data analysis, Mr Conyngham is an AI pioneer – an electrical and computing engineer who co-founded Core Intelligence Technologies, and was a director for the Data Science and AI Association of Australia. Once UNSW handed him the genomic sequencing, for which he paid $3000, he got cracking to decipher the data. “I went to ChatGPT and came up with a plan on how to do this,’’ he said. “The first step was to reach out to the university to get Rosie’s DNA sequenced. The idea is you take the healthy DNA out of her blood and then you take the DNA out of her tumour and you sequence both of them to see exactly where the mutations have occurred. It’s like having the original engine of your car and then a version of the engine 300,000km down the road – you can compare them and see where there’s damage.” Once UNSW produced the DNA sequencing, Mr Conyngham “ran it through a whole bunch of different (data) pipelines to find those mutations, and then I used other algorithms to find drugs to treat the cancer’’.
Hounding the UNSW scientists for help, Mr Conyngham impressed them with his ingenuity and persistence. “What really convinced them is I just kept going and providing results,’’ he said. “It’s kind of like when you’re a student and you go to your teacher, and if you haven’t done your homework and you ask, ‘how do I do this?’ the teacher will tell you to ‘go away, you’re wasting my time’. But every single time I turned up to them, I did my homework.’’ Team Rosie identified an immunotherapy drug produced by an unidentified pharmaceutical company – but when they applied to use it, the drug manufacturer refused to supply it for compassionate use. “The wind went out of my sails,’’ Mr Conyngham said. “But fate sort of intervened’’. Associate Professor Smith recalls that Rosie’s owner was “a bit bummed out … we chatted and that’s when I told him about mRNA vaccines, and he circled back and said, ‘Hey, Martin, can you tell me more about his mRNA stuff, is there something we could actually do?’’’ Custom vaccine The genomics team reached out to Pall Thordarson, director of the prestigious UNSW RNA Institute. A pioneer in nanomedicine, the Icelandic professor used Mr Conyngham’s data, crunched down to a half-page formula, to create a bespoke mRNA vaccine for Rosie.
this is kind of a crazy story! the headline predictably understates the role of the scientists the guy worked with as well as his own expertise, but the article is great and it does seem pretty clear that he would never have been able to do it without LLMs
www.theaustralian.com.au/business/tec...
Our guy @garywhitta.bsky.social was on this at one point, right?
I admire you non-drinkers even more in times like this.
