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SNW s2e5 "Charades"

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense@piefed.social/p/2182583/it-me-fr-fr

The award-winning team behind Google DeepMind's AlphaFold program is no more, according to Financial Times. Google has reassigned most of the team's key members and the original authors of its papers, while a few others have already left the company. AlphaFold is an AI program that can accurately predict three-dimensional structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences in minutes instead of years. It's now being used to accelerate drug discovery, develop vaccines and understand the structural changes in proteins associated with neurodegenerative diseases like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's.

DeepMind started developing AlphaFold in 2018. In 2020, it was recognized as a solution to humanity's 50-year-old "protein folding problem," which sought to answer how amino acids automatically fold into complex 3D shapes. Those shapes determine the biological role of a protein. Scientists had identified the structures of roughly 170,000 proteins over the past 50 years, using tools and techniques like X-ray and nuclear magnetic resonance. The AlphaFold team took information from those previous work and then fed it to their AI to train AlphaFold.

In 2021, Nature published the papers with AlphaFold's methodology and the structure predictions of the entire human proteome, or the complete set of proteins expressed by our species. DeepMind then launched the AlphaFold Protein Structure Database, giving researchers free access to over 200 million protein structure predictions. In 2024, DeepMind CEO Demis Hassabis and John Jumper, who was a staff research scientist when the project began and who eventually became a VP and engineering fellow, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for their work on AlphaFold.

Keep the slop, kill the science. Got it.

cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/64215549

Leaked documents indicate that Shuliak was the last person Epstein spoke to by phone hours before his alleged suicide in prison. It also emerged that Epstein had amended his legal will just two days before his death, in a seemingly deliberate move to ensure the young dentist received the largest share of his remaining fortune.

Despite their close association, US federal authorities did not include Shuliak among those involved or complicit in Epstein's sex crimes. She also never described herself as a victim of his practices, nor was she subjected to formal interrogations by the FBI or the victims' lawyers pursuing Epstein's estate.

Meanwhile, FIFA announced that it is planning to sell a major stake in the World Cup to a Kushner family firm.

For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in !crimes_of_ice@lemmy.4d2.org

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4513476

For more information, either visit the article directly or view the post with quotes in !crimes_of_ice@lemmy.4d2.org

https://lemmy.4d2.org/post/4513476

A mysterious wave of severe tics swept through teenagers worldwide, baffling neurologists until investigators uncovered a digital culprit reshaping adolescent behavior in real time.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/noncredibledefense@piefed.social/p/2182584/simplify-simplify

I was going through some posts here and noticed one from over a month ago asking about changing the community banner and icon. The mods were all mentioned in a comment too and none responded, so I checked all their accounts out and none of them have been active in years.

The top mod had one comment 1.9 years ago and other than that all three have been inactive for over 2 years. It’s too bad because this community is active enough that it should have someone keeping an eye on it, or at least someone who’s on Lemmy every day.

I’d be open to taking on the job (maybe with someone else too just to be safe) but don’t know where to request access. Or I’d be willing to help someone else get the job too, whichever, but it would be nice for this community to have an active mod. Does anyone know if it’s possible to request access or whatever? I know how, as a mod, to add another mod, I’ve done that before for a community I run, but no idea if no mods are active.

I’d also like to clarify I’m not trying to start a mutiny, I’d love it if the current mods came back and participated again, but seeing as they were mentioned over a month ago and didn’t respond, and none have had any activity in 2+ years, I’m sort of doubtful that will happen.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/68578868

Hey, the changeling is still here! It's her wedding! Don't let the other characters' shenanigans distract you from her story. (This is more a message to myself than to you.)

What's going on?

• This girl is "Kayra", a changeling made of mud and sticks enchanted to look like the human she had replaced as a baby.
• Changelings are supposed to fade and die after a few weeks, but this one did not, and has been living the real Kayra's human life, and grew up hiding her true nature - even from her own parents.
• Now she's an adult, getting married, and has a complicated relationship with her mother.
• She still hasn't told her fiancé the truth about herself, though not for lack of trying.
• Now there are only a few minutes till she's supposed to walk down the aisle.

Love and Hex started out as a joke about my D&D campaign and turned into an ongoing rom-com/existential horror story. It's on Webtoon and other platforms.

There's also !LoveAndHex@lemmy.ca. ^(And Patreon if you like early releases and extra stuff.)

There's also a book! You'll find it on Amazon (just use your country's site).