Since you ask.
From the birth of quantum to the birth of CERN.

i_know_feeling_.txt

@odedrechavi.bsky.social classic

It’s clear from the PC:Mac ratio that this is a different audience compared to where I normally speak

Thanks. That’s useful. Would be interesting to have the full set of numbers including China, Japan, and Europe as a whole

I’m curious about the statement that the US funds the bulk of biomedical research globally by far. I’ve been looking for numbers but haven’t been able to find some to support that statement. Do you mean that the US funds more than all other countries combined?

Reminds me of this David Baker classic

Functional rapidly folding proteins from simplified amino acid sequences
doi.org/10.1038/nsb1...

I don’t know but Don Knuth may have a partial answer:

“Email is a wonderful thing for people whose role in life is to be on top of things. But not for me; my role is to be on the bottom of things.”

cs.stanford.edu/~knuth/email...

Thanks David for inviting and hosting me, and for letting me see some of the great science at VBC. Was a pleasure

Well done! Time flies