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Cool experiment. I wonder though how the "coding assistants" would fare if requested that each grid is guaranteed to be winnable. Simon Tatham's Mines does that, and I was in awe when I realized that, and the implementation is so elegant.

Clearly a useful view on this matter: https://www.johnhawks.net/p/sparking-ancient-fires Too many potential quotes to choose from, I choose this one: Also, I recommend to anyone into paleoanthropology John Hawks' blog: https://www.johnhawks.net/ (add feed to get the RSS feed).

Ok, I learned quite a bit since my previous comment. First, Lior Pachter's review of CSHL's obituary in his blog, a fascinating read: Review of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory’s Obituary for Dr. James Watson And, one of the references in this review is a comment article about the history of DNA...

Photo 51 is an interesting Wikipedia article, rather short. How Franklin crystallized B-DNA, then A-DNA, and why she left the first picture aside remain open questions to me, observing that she couldn't go through her projects, since she left her position at that time. Ah, that was fiber...

I was reading that on DeVault's blog a few days ago, and that got me curious (By which I mean that I trust him when he says there's a problem, but he's well know for his loud rants.) So, why exactly would major players in the LLM field be using residential proxies to pound on the internet at...

Are they playful and cooing, or are they waiting for their sisters who remained inside to also escape, so they can all flee away from that madness for good?

So, essentially OpenAI says they're good at identifying malicious actors shabby enough to rely on their services?

I think it's interesting to mention that C. elegans is an important model in developmental biology (how organisms grow to their adult form), in particular because the examples of miRNA impacts cited in this article (and if I'm not mistaken those recognized by the Nobel committee, as well as...

Ah, Youtube stopped asking me solving captchas, it now requires sign in.. The change happened at some point during the last two months, and only takes effect when I browse from a proxy (which I need from home, because state censorship..)

And bones files! Well, it's a very funny idea to unleash an AI agent against Nethack in any case.. Well, at least I can do as good as the algorithm, on my best runs, I feel that's somewhat reassuring >< Edit: to make it less obscure, a bones file is a level from a previous game – the level...

It's clear that Macrodata Refinement are mechanical turks. I kinda forgot about it, even though I watched the show 4 times already probably.. Waiting eagerly for the second season ><

It seems to be a well-known fact that trained students do a better job at Multiple Sequence Alignment (MSA) than do algorithms. And there's a ton of algorithms trying their best there, it's definitely a big part of bioinformatics. The Borderlands minigame is an MSA mechanical turk. I'm saying...

My mom got her data drive encrypted for ransom at about that time, 2019. Is there a chance that one of the tools just released could help recover her data? (As far as I know my parents are still keeping the drive intact somewhere.) I don't have much details about the ransomware that was used...

If I'm not mistaken, Xist mediated X-chromosome inactivation is an evolution of placental mammals. Which I find fascinating by the way, I can't help but think that there might be a link. (Like, could Xist have opened the door to the placenta? Really, just random speculation here though..)

I don't think the mechanism proposed here should be an explanation for autoimmune diseases in general, but it may be a factor in some of them, specifically those where the immune system wrongly learns to react to Xist RNPs. And not as a reaction to Uncivil Servant's post, but I was wondering...

Indeed, for some strange reason I thought it was Jennifer Ouellette who wrote the article.. So, thanks Elizabeth for the coverage!

Sexual reproduction is for eukaryotes only (reference: Wikipedia). In my idea most eukaryotes use it, but I don't have an idea about how many "protist" species only use clonal reproduction ("protist" is the large amorphous bag for all non-fungi / non-plant / non-animal eukaryotic species). Now...

Early eukaryotes paleontology, seems like a fascinating field, and one I didn't really realize existed so far, even though eukaryogenesis has been one of my favorite "big questions" for a long time.. Thanks to Jennifer Elizabeth for making an article about this paper, and nice that it's open...

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Well, the remark I wanted to do. You're not going to observe "beer goggles" with a beer or a glass of wine. Get your participants properly drunk first. I can tell for sure, from personal experience (and I know that's not statistically significant) that I will fall in love almost certainly when I...