Gordon Wells

Even the schemers of South Africa's "state capture" corruption plots are looking at this in envy and amazement:

@lvwerra Based on your tree of life, your software seems to lack a basic fundamental assumption of bioinformatics: sequences diverge from common ancestors.

We are releasing Carbon: a crazy fast DNA model Carbon is 275x faster than the next best model. So fast you can process the whole human genome on a single GPU in <2 days. Here are the tricks we used: When modelling DNA sequences a lot of the performance comes down to tokenizing the sequences in a smart way. BPE tokenizer struggle because there are no whitespaces and character (called base in DNA) level tokenizers waste a lot of compute on too many tokens. Carbon is built with a unique tokenizer: we split sequences in chunks of 6 bases, but during both training and inference we can work with single base resolution. That's similar to having word tokens but resolving them at the character level. All possible thanks to the DNA tokens unique structure. The architecture combined with the tokenizer makes the model 275x faster than the previous SoTA (Evo2) at this size. We built an interactive demo so you can explore how the model can generate DNA sequences, investigate the structure of genes, predict the effect of mutations, generate and fold proteins and even reconstruct parts of the tree of life. huggingface.co/spaces/Hugging…

@AngelicaOung @Tracey_PayneAsi How are the book shops?

@Tracey_PayneAsi I think ppl are too spooked by HK. Their mind is locked on 2019 but the city moved on and is thriving.

China's proposed One country, two systems for Taiwan as usual finds not much support among Taiwanese. Especially among the younger. Not really a big surprise, everyone can see Hong Kong.

ask jeeves

How do you publish this tree and claim it's a success???!!!

@EricLDaugh Using the Presidency to enrich yourself and putting your face on passports is banana republic level shit

🚨 HOLY SMOKES. JD Vance is taking NO BS from the Fake News today! REPORTER: *Gives 90 second tirade on Trump and stock trading* JD: "You do a SPEECH: 'Mr. VP, you're a terrible human being, so is the president and cabinet.' I'm like, what's your question? Then your question is, 'how dare you?!' COME ON MAN!" "Have a little bit of OBJECTIVITY in the way that you ask these questions!" "Because there are a lot of things in that speech masquerading as a QUESTION that didn't actually get asked!" "Number one, the President doesn't sit at the Oval Office on his computer, on his like Robinhood account, buying and selling stocks, that's ABSURD." "He has independent wealth of advisors who manage his money, he is a wealthy person, he has that success in business, he's not making these stock trades himself." "A reasonable person listening to that question would assume the President is sitting around and doing that, he's NOT." "Second of all, you're right, I am a big fan of banning members of Congress from trading stocks, so is the President of the United States. All of us believe that nobody should be taking proprietary information gained from public service and buying and selling stocks!" 🔥🔥🔥🔥

A student recently told me: "Apparently, you can now use LaTeX locally on your computer. We don't need Overleaf anymore." The old becomes new again, helped along by Overleaf becoming really slow.

@southernman13 @Mazelit_ Palestine was Christian by late Roman times. The fall of Byzantium and Persia created a vacuum for Islam, yet another Abrahamic religion.

@gordonwells @Mazelit_ Actually more like the vagrant who pitched a tent in the back forty

Jews lived in Israel before Islam was invented. Jews lived in Israel before Islam was invented. Jews lived in Israel before Islam was invented.

@southernman13 @Mazelit_ I'd like to think the Christian would at least do the dishes

@jackprandelli Electrons are not moved from generators to computage. Grids are mostly AC. Electrons oscillate to generate electromagnetic fields that are drained by devices.

The US Department of Energy just mapped every data center in America. This is what the AI power grid looks like. The dots are data centers. Yellow = operating. Orange = under construction. White = planned. The lines are high-voltage transmission 735kV, 500kV, 345kV the arteries that move electrons from generators to compute loads. Look at the density along the East Coast, Northern Virginia to the Carolinas. Then look at Texas. Then Northern California. The largest circles on this map represent facilities demanding over 5,000 MW of power. Single campuses pulling more electricity than mid-sized cities. Northern Virginia is so dense the dots overlap. Data centers cluster on transmission corridors. Not because land is cheap because power is available. When the line is full, the next data center goes somewhere else. The grid is the bottleneck. Every orange dot is a power purchase agreement being negotiated right now. Every white dot is a utility commission filing, a gas plant approval, a pipeline capacity booking. The $66.8 bn NextEra-Dominion deal, Meta's 10 new gas plants in Louisiana, the Alaska LNG FID push they all trace back to maps that look like this. AI infrastructure is built in substations, on transmission corridors, and at the end of gas pipelines. Link in the comments, to see my stocks 👇

Dumb question. Why can’t we put data centers in all the nearly empty commercial towers that already exist?

Results of the Almost Entirely All White 1948 South African Election, which paved the way for the era of formal, legally binding apartheid. The Reunited National Party won the election despite losing the popular vote by over 11 percentage points. "The most important reason for the National Party's (NP) election success was, arguably, its strength with rural voters in 1948. Despite not receiving the majority vote and Smuts gaining 11.48% more votes, Malan benefited heavily from malapportionment. This allowed Malan to form a government by winning many small constituencies and gaining 5 more seats than the United Party in a narrow victory for the National Party. The elections marked the start of 46 years of National Party (NP) rule in South Africa, leading to the formal introduction of apartheid and the gradual development of a herrenvolk democracy that persisted until the 1994 election." - Wikipedia Map Of South Africa The CIA No Longer Wants You To See: brilliantmaps.com/country-maps/m…

Africa's electricity access, country by country. Some leaps. Some crawls. One notable slide backwards. But a massive shift over just 10 years. source: World Bank by reddit user cavedave

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Great new study arguing that the Proto-Indo-Europeans mastered horses 6000 years ago, much earlier than believed so far, and used them to spread their genes and culture across Euroasia. science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…

@ncakos316 I'm going try go to the Dbn one.

CSA schedule the first SA v Australia meeting since the WTC final (2 best sides in the world) in Durban, where nobody will bother turning up. DEAD ATMOSPHERE. The 3rd test which may end up being a dead rubber, is at Newlands where people generally turn up in the thousands. BUT they have scheduled the first 3 days from Tuesday to Thursday. Make it make sense. PLEASE.

Sounds like the Otter Trail. Same nonsense, slots go to rent seekers first.

@skdh Doesn't seem to be much new, although the 5000y number is interesting: youtube.com/watch?v=jHyFRE… My answer: did their planet have a Carboniferous era? If you don't have millions of years of fixed carbon at your feet do you ever get to make rockets or nuclear power?

Astrophysicists have a new, and slightly terrifying, explanation for the Fermi paradox, or the question of why we have found no evidence of intelligent extraterrestrial life.

@createstreets Also, how about allowing people to open them properly?

uPVC windows are not just an environmental but an aesthetic disaster. Some facts on why they are NOT ”green” ….