Great basis for discussions! A while ago, I extrapolated using "Moore's law in Molecular Biology" by Vendruscolo and Dobson doi.org/10.1016/j.cu... (small cell with 10 billion atoms for 1 sec in 2060). My point was that the virtual cell would not even be dead. Even decomposition needs chemistry.

It might be. But even the very wise cannot see all ends.

As it turns out, "utilizing" and "leveraging" are both among a list of 291 "rare excess style words" which show a jump-like increase in frequency correlating with the emergence of LLMs as AI assistants like ChatGPT: doi.org/10.1126/scia...

@zotero.org dramatically improved my reading. Highly recommended! The browser plugin to add a paper to your library with only one click makes a huge difference.

By the way, I love this picture. It emphasizes the power of combining theory and computation. What could Boltzmann have achieved if he had powerful computers available? Of course, it could be that he’s just checking his banking account. We will never know.

I’ve been wondering for a long time if Bernhard had a reason to make Boltzmann left-handed.

In the end, their posterior probability of a terror attack increased from 1% after the first plane crash to 99% after the second plane crash. I believe these numbers roughly reflect the experience of many of us. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sig...

For warm-up, the students first solved a Fermi problem. They guesstimated within a factor 5 the money thrown into Trevi Fountain in Rome each year. Much better than their initial guesses. It eased them into guesstimating probabilities.

It appears to be as @agrossfield.bsky.social was saying. Surely, not everything that impacts science is suited for a research (!) article. AlphaFold 3 doesn't need Nature for success. I doubt that Nature has done itself a service. At least they have confirmed some opinions about them. 😉