Hirom
@Hirom@beehaw.org
- Comment on New HIV vaccine shows unprecedented success in preclinical study 1 day ago:
Human trials have now started.
:)
- Comment on Catnip lotion as effective as Deet at repelling mosquitoes, study finds 3 weeks ago:
Nice try, cats
- Comment on Organized science in the age of AI: Are we asleep at the wheel? - International Science Council 4 weeks ago:
NLNet has an LLM policy that’s sensisble for open-source software projects.
Open science and science institutions could look at such exemple.
- Comment on Microsoft reportedly add Arkane and their Blade game to the potential shuttering pile 4 weeks ago:
Investing into LLMs and shutting down Arkane. Microsoft is doing the exact opposite of the right thing to do.
- Comment on New CRISPR Technique Selectively Shreds Cancer Cells, Including “Undruggable” Cancers 1 month ago:
This is an in-vitro experiment.
- Comment on Researchers turn sunlight and CO2 into living biomass 2 months ago:
Why produce ethanol?
Producing and burning ethanol in internal combustion engines is more polluting, less efficient than using electric vehicles. So this can’t be it.
Producing and burning ethanol for heat is more polluting, less efficient than heat pumps or solar thermal energy. So that’s not it either.
The article mention chemical industry and:
[..] building blocks for products ranging from fertilizers to plastics
This leaves fertilizers and plastics. So this would have to compete with other ways to produce fertilizers, plastic and plastic alternatives (cardboard packaging, wood, glass…)