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Lab-in-the-Loop: The self-driving research laboratories speeding up drug discovery
Artificial intelligence isn’t going to solve drug discovery, at least not the way some people imagine it is going to. Even a hyperintelligent AI, having…
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Do Composers Die Young? Yes, they have shorter life expectancy
Last February, I asked different AIs (ChatGPT, Gemini, DeepSeek) to investigate if composers have historically died younger than other professions. Two of them couldn’t answer…
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Surprising Optimism: Finally Something Good from Stefan Sagmeister
The man to my right stared at me incredulously. He had the seat next to mine in the back of Cowell Theatre, and I had…
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Venus: It’s too h-o-t-t-o-g-o
The only images that we have from the surface of Venus are from the 1970s and 1980s. They were taken by the Soviet Venera landers,…
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Job Security is Higher in Europe: That may be a problem
Americans are ten times more likely to be fired than Europeans, according to Works in Progress. 0.1 percent of German employees will be fired in a…
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You Generate More Energy Than the Sun: A Fermi Calculation
According to the second law of thermodynamics, the amount of disorder or entropy in the universe can only ever increase. There are pockets of order…