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Cybsled said:
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my brother-in-law just got the invite to the program. I'm not sure he wants to because he views it as pretty expensive buy-in ($499 for the tripod and router, $99/mo). I didn't understand if the $499 actually BOUGHT you that, or if you paid the money as a "payment in full lease" while you have the service.
 
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I have to imagine that is a purchase price vs. a lease. When the full service launches, though, I would strongly suspect they'll have plans with equipment lease or pay it off in increments as you go (like traditional telecoms) type setups to get more people to use the service.
 
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Apparently Google has optimized computational protein folding to a point where relevant measuring metrics are such that the results are equally as good as actual experimental modeling. If this can be generalized, this is pretty big.

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AlphaFold: a solution to a 50-year-old grand challenge in biology

Proteins are essential to life, supporting practically all its functions. They are large complex molecules, made up of chains of amino acids, and what a protein does largely depends on its unique...
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www.independent.co.uk

AI solves 50-year-old science problem in ‘stunning advance’ that could change the world

A 50-year-old science problem has been solved and could allow for dramatic changes in the fight against diseases, researchers say.
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For years, scientists have been struggling with the problem of “protein folding” – mapping the three-dimensional shapes of the proteins that are responsible for diseases from cancer to Covid-19.
Google’s Deepmind claims to have created an artificially intelligent program called “AlphaFold” that is able to solve those problems in a matter of days.
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Well. This will probably be very useful. Especially when Landrew needs to be built.
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Meet GPT-3. It Has Learned to Code (and Blog and Argue). (Published 2020)

The latest natural-language system generates tweets, pens poetry, summarizes emails, answers trivia questions, translates languages and even writes its own computer programs.
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yeah.
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sounds thorough.
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Hello easy A!
 
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So it has learned not to tell people to their face they are stupid and have no creative talent whatsoever. It has exceeded the average IQ of a human.
 
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If I had $80,000 burning a hole in my pocket, I would buy one of the Spot robotic 'dogs'. They are so cool.
 
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