Entries from July 2021 ↓

• Obsidian
  note-taking app
• Review: Why Facebook can never fix itself | MIT Technology Review
• First ‘Time Crystal’ Built Using Google’s Quantum Computer | Quanta Magazine
• Observation of Time-Crystalline Eigenstate Order on a Quantum Processor
  Quantum many-body systems display rich phase structure in their low-temperature equilibrium states. However, much of nature is not in thermal equilibrium. Remarkably, it was recently predicted that out-of-equilibrium systems can exhibit novel dynamical phases that may otherwise be forbidden by equilibrium thermodynamics, a paradigmatic example being the discrete time crystal (DTC). Concretely, dynamical phases can be defined in periodically driven many-body localized systems via the concept of eigenstate order. In eigenstate-ordered phases, the entire many-body spectrum exhibits quantum correlations and long-range order, with characteristic signatures in late-time dynamics from all initial states. It is, however, challenging to experimentally distinguish such stable phases from transient phenomena, wherein few select states can mask typical behavior. Here we implement a continuous family of tunable CPHASE gates on an array of superconducting qubits to experimentally observe an eigenstate-ordered DTC. We demonstrate the characteristic spatiotemporal response of a DTC for generic initial states. Our work employs a time-reversal protocol that discriminates external decoherence from intrinsic thermalization, and leverages quantum typicality to circumvent the exponential cost of densely sampling the eigenspectrum. In addition, we locate the phase transition out of the DTC with an experimental finite-size analysis. These results establish a scalable approach to study non-equilibrium phases of matter on current quantum processors.
• Google may have achieved a scientific breakthrough: Time crystals
• (400) https://twitter.com/JamesGleick/status/1421138947976146945/photo/1
  RT @JamesGleick: Here is a smoking gun, far more damning than anything learned about Nixon during Watergate. Is it not time for a full and fair criminal investigation, @TheJusticeDept?
• The New York Times: Trump Pressed Justice Dept. to Declare Election Results Corrupt, Notes Show
• (400) https://twitter.com/JChengWSJ/status/1421267112908115968
  RT @mgerrydoyle: "arrested on suspicion of booing" is some extremely dystopian stuff
• (400) https://twitter.com/Variety/status/1420866247420485636
  RT @kylebuchanan: Fran Lebowitz said it best
• (400) https://twitter.com/kylebuchanan/status/1420902553269592067/photo/1
  RT @kylebuchanan: Fran Lebowitz said it best
• GitHub – google-research/bert: TensorFlow code and pre-trained models for BERT
• This 900-person delta cluster in Mass. has CDC freaked out—74% are vaccinated [Updated] — Ars Technica
  CDC estimates 35K symptomatic infections in US per week among 162 million vaccinated.
• How to Bake an Egg Inside a Muffin | Epicurious
• 49 New Sci-Fi and Fantasy Books to Keep You Turning Pages in August
• Intro to Advanced Actor-Critic Methods: Reinforcement Learning Course
• (500) https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2021/07/29/cdc-mask-guidance/
  RT @MarkHarrisNYC: Read this urgent story. Vaccinated people can get the Delta variant, and vaccinated people are spreading it. This is not a speed bump on the way to reopening. It’s a serious new threat, as contagious as chicken pox. Mask up.
• The Insurrection Was Just Part of the Plot
  The full contours of Trump’s effort to overturn the election are coming into view.
• On Tuesday, enough ice melted in Greenland to cover Florida in two inches of water
  On Tuesday, enough ice melted in Greenland to cover Florida in two inches of water

  All-time record temperature of 19.8C in region on Wednesday

• (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1421180554737762319/photo/1
  On Tuesday, enough ice melted in Greenland to cover Florida in two inches of water

  All-time record temperature of 19.8C in region on Wednesday

• [2106.16163] The MultiBERTs: BERT Reproductions for Robustness Analysis
  Experiments with pretrained models such as BERT are often based on a single checkpoint. While the conclusions drawn apply to the artifact (i.e., the particular instance of the model), it is not always clear whether they hold for the more general procedure (which includes the model architecture, training data, initialization scheme, and loss function). Recent work has shown that re-running pretraining can lead to substantially different conclusions about performance, suggesting that alternative evaluations are needed to make principled statements about procedures. To address this question, we introduce MultiBERTs: a set of 25 BERT-base checkpoints, trained with similar hyper-parameters as the original BERT model but differing in random initialization and data shuffling. The aim is to enable researchers to draw robust and statistically justified conclusions about pretraining procedures. The full release includes 25 fully trained checkpoints, as well as statistical guidelines and a code library implementing our recommended hypothesis testing methods. Finally, for five of these models we release a set of 28 intermediate checkpoints in order to support research on learning dynamics.
• [2106.16171] Revisiting the Primacy of English in Zero-shot Cross-lingual Transfer
  Despite their success, large pre-trained multilingual models have not completely alleviated the need for labeled data, which is cumbersome to collect for all target languages. Zero-shot cross-lingual transfer is emerging as a practical solution: pre-trained models later fine-tuned on one transfer language exhibit surprising performance when tested on many target languages. English is the dominant source language for transfer, as reinforced by popular zero-shot benchmarks. However, this default choice has not been systematically vetted. In our study, we compare English against other transfer languages for fine-tuning, on two pre-trained multilingual models (mBERT and mT5) and multiple classification and question answering tasks. We find that other high-resource languages such as German and Russian often transfer more effectively, especially when the set of target languages is diverse or unknown a priori. Unexpectedly, this can be true even when the training sets were automatically translated from English. This finding can have immediate impact on multilingual zero-shot systems, and should inform future benchmark designs.
• Modeling migration patterns in the USA under sea level rise
• (359) Transfer learning and Transformer models (ML Tech Talks) – YouTube
• Biden says Western wildfires demand 'urgent action' in meeting with governors
• (400) https://twitter.com/marinamaral2/status/1420794379254607875
  the moving walkway is great

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• Books to Prisoners – Mailing free books to incarcerated individuals since 1973
• CDC COVID Data Tracker
• Exploring Seattle’s Booming Beer Scene – The New York Times
• New bank-fraud malware called Vultur infects thousands of devices — Ars Technica
  Screen sharing courtesy of VNC mirrors device screens to attacker-controlled servers.
• (400) https://twitter.com/GretaThunberg/status/1420649906323312658/photo/1
  RT @GretaThunberg: Today is #WorldOvershootDay – the day when we’ve used up the world’s resources for 2021.
  On national levels this date varies a lot. In my country Sweden it occurs on April 6th. We’re not just stealing the future – we’re also stealing the present from other parts of the world.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/07/28/us/climate-change/salmon-dead-heat)
  RT @nytimes: As droughts continue and water temperatures climb, salmon in parts of Oregon and California are developing health issues. "Imagine the heat that we’re feeling. They’re feeling it 10 times worse in that river. They’re suffocating.”
• (400) https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1420757281168187409/video/1
  RT @nytimes: As droughts continue and water temperatures climb, salmon in parts of Oregon and California are developing health issues. "Imagine the heat that we’re feeling. They’re feeling it 10 times worse in that river. They’re suffocating.”
• (400) https://twitter.com/DannyBressler1/status/1420769416179027977/photo/1
  RT @DannyBressler1: Fully decarbonizing by 2050 saves 74 million lives in expectation over the rest of the 21st century compared to the baseline emissions scenario: excess deaths from climate change are reduced from 83 million to 9 million.
• The mortality cost of carbon | Nature Communications
• Perpetrators of domestic abuse committed 2 of 3 mass shootings from 2014-19, study finds
  When domestic violence and mass shootings intersect, researchers found it can be deadlier for those involved than for victims of random mass shootings.
• 6. The Bangles – 64 Quartets
• Ancient Gilgamesh tablet seized from Hobby Lobby by US authorities
• Comfortable Sustainable Shoes & Best Skate Sneakers
• Let’s Talk About Sneakers, the Most Charming, Baffling Espionage/Heist Movie of the 1990s ‹ CrimeReads
• ‘You’re the Problem’: When They Spoke Up About Misconduct, They Were Offered Mental Health Services
  Former and current Google employees said that H.R. would respond to their workplace complaints by referring them to counseling programs instead of addressing the broader issues.
• Astronomers see back of a black hole for first time, proving Albert Einstein was right
• Why Managers Fear a Remote-Work Future
  Like it or not, the way we work has already evolved.

  Today i wrote a piece for @theatlantic on why managers and executives are so terrified of the remote work future – because it lays bear the inefficiencies of the workplace, and drags work back to being an exchange of labor for money https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/07/work-from-home-benefits/619597/

• Lesley Ann Warren Answers Every Question We Have About Clue

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• Kathy Wang’s “Impostor Syndrome” Is a Tech World Satire
• Perspective | Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop covering it like politics as usual.
  Why the press needs to shed ingrained habits to meet the defining crisis of our time.

  RT @Sulliview: Our democracy is under attack. Washington journalists must stop treating it like politics as usual. …I offer a prescription for how news-organization leadership can radically reframe its coverage. … My column:

• Container Security: Building trust in your software supply chain
  Whether building an application on Kubernetes, Serverless, or Virtual Machine, end-to-end security is crucial to mitigate the rapid growth in open source software, as well as recent cybersecurity attacks and data breaches. Come learn how you can adopt an in-depth, security-first approach with Google Cloud that embeds security and compliance at every step of your software lifecycle.
• (400) https://twitter.com/steak_umm/status/1420457701344260098
  RT @cdespinosa: There is a really crucial insight in this tweet.

  Truth is costly, because proving truth is rigorous and time-consuming.

  Lies are cheap.

  “Credible sources being paywalled” is the result of the truth having to pay for itself due to poor public funding, a burden lies don’t have.

• This woman was the first scientist to chart the physics of climate change—in 1856
  Eunice Foote
• CRISPR breaks ground as a one-shot treatment for a rare disease — Popular Science
  CRISPR reached a big milestone this year by treating a disease inside the body—here’s what’s next for the technology.
  "In a small, six-person study, published in the New England Journal of Medicine last month, researchers attempted to treat six people with a rare genetic disease called transthyretin amyloidosis with a new technology that delivers CRISPR directly to cells in the liver"
• Can vitamin D protect you from COVID-19? Here’s what the latest research says — Fast Company
  Can consuming vitamin D protect against COVID-19? Maybe: A series of studies now suggests that low vitamin D levels may correlate with higher rates of COVID-19 infections.
• Another coronavirus variant has reached Florida. Here’s what you need to know. — The Washington Post
  A variant discovered in Colombia is now showing up in South Florida hospitals. Time and vaccination efforts will determine how quickly it could spread, experts say.
• Choosing a container image | Deep Learning Containers | Google Cloud

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• Gold Coast Ghal brings West African food to Seattle's South Lake Union
• Finding the right cloud migration path for your company | Google Cloud Blog
• An albino opossum proves CRISPR works for marsupials, too
  Their complex reproduction has made it hard for scientists to apply the gene-editing tool—until now.
• How Government Learned to Waste Your Time – The Atlantic
• (400) https://twitter.com/lizcgoodwin/status/1418532286077841414
  RT @AOC: Communities cannot “out-organize” voter suppression when those they organize to elect won’t protect the vote.

  & Even if they DO out-organize, the ground is being set to overturn results.

  The time to fight like hell for democracy is right now. We may not get another chance. #HR1

• (400) https://twitter.com/josie_huang/status/1415752823598288897/video/1
  RT @josie_huang: If you text “rent” to 211211, you can get help figuring out if you qualify in one of 11 languages.

  Aid is available to those who earn no more than 80 percent of the median income for their area. For a family of 4 in the LA area, that’s just under $95,000.

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• ResNet and ResNetV2
• (400) https://twitter.com/xavierfettweis/status/1418844545769525257/photo/1
  RT @xavierfettweis: Major melt event is expected on 28 Jul 2021 over the Greenland ice sheet. Mass lost estimated by MAR-GFS to – 12 GT/day close to the previous records of 12 July 2012 and 30 Jul 2019. To be confirmed in the next days…
• Untitled (https://27e454dd-3df8-46d2-9729-305cc93bca60.filesusr.com/ugd/ae9144_1109543c82f84556b9488db6ec45ae7d.pdf)
  RT @pomeranian99: An experiment found that when subjects smelled a fishy smell, it reduced their level of trust:

  "I smell something fishy" is a two-way metaphor, it appears

• How To Make an infinite loop using watering cans | Self-Starting Siphon | Perpetuum Mobile ASMR – YouTube
• Boston Dynamics Unveils New Robots Able To Realistically Behave Like They Under Researchers’ Control
• Opinion | How could the FBI ignore 4,500 tips about Kavanaugh?
  This circus of FBI mismanagement and White House underhandedness cries out for congressional inquiry.
• Crooks target Kubernetes installs via Argo Workflows to deploy minersSecurity Affairs
• Eyes wide shut: How newborn mammals dream the world they’re entering
• Covid-19 and promising solutions to combat symptoms of stress, anxiety and depression – Neuropsychopharmacology
• You Won’t Believe How This Beetle Walks on Water
  Scientists observed a beetle walking upside-down on the undersurface of a pool of water.
• How to add GPUs to a Cloud Environment – Terra Support
• Getting explanations  |  Vertex AI  |  Google Cloud
• GoogleCloudPlatform/explainable_ai_sdk: This is an SDK for Google Cloud Explainable AI service. Explainable AI SDK helps users build explanation metadata for their models and visualize feature attributions returned from the model.
• explainable_ai_sdk/configs.py at master · GoogleCloudPlatform/explainable_ai_sdk
• [1705.02315] ChestX-ray8: Hospital-scale Chest X-ray Database and Benchmarks on Weakly-Supervised Classification and Localization of Common Thorax Diseases
  The chest X-ray is one of the most commonly accessible radiological examinations for screening and diagnosis of many lung diseases. A tremendous number of X-ray imaging studies accompanied by radiological reports are accumulated and stored in many modern hospitals’ Picture Archiving and Communication Systems (PACS). On the other side, it is still an open question how this type of hospital-size knowledge database containing invaluable imaging informatics (i.e., loosely labeled) can be used to facilitate the data-hungry deep learning paradigms in building truly large-scale high precision computer-aided diagnosis (CAD) systems.
  In this paper, we present a new chest X-ray database, namely "ChestX-ray8", which comprises 108,948 frontal-view X-ray images of 32,717 unique patients with the text-mined eight disease image labels (where each image can have multi-labels), from the associated radiological reports using natural language processing. Importantly, we demonstrate that these commonly occurring thoracic diseases can be detected and even spatially-located via a unified weakly-supervised multi-label image classification and disease localization framework, which is validated using our proposed dataset. Although the initial quantitative results are promising as reported, deep convolutional neural network based "reading chest X-rays" (i.e., recognizing and locating the common disease patterns trained with only image-level labels) remains a strenuous task for fully-automated high precision CAD systems.
• Integrating image and tabular data for deep learning | by Yuan Tian | Towards Data Science
  Use fastai and image_tabular to integrate image and tabular data for deep learning and train a joint model using the integrated data

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• Tailscale · Best VPN Service for Secure Networks
  Zero config VPN. Installs on any device in minutes, manages firewall rules for you, and works from anywhere.
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/16/climate/europe-floods-climate-change.html?smid=tw-nytimesscience&smtyp=cur)
  RT @NYTScience: “The answer is yes — all major weather these days is being affected by the changes in climate,” said Donald J. Wuebbles, a professor of atmospheric sciences at the University of Illinois.
• (352) A Chat with Andrew on MLOps: From Model-centric to Data-centric AI – YouTube
  In this event, Dr.Andrew Ng shared the skills he sees as fundamental to the next generation of machine learning practitioners, and followed with a Q&A.
• (400) https://twitter.com/MattDoogue/status/1419392412447879173/photo/1
  RT @MattDoogue: Moss Mantis has reached adult! Here’s a quick snap.
• Focusing on Blue – 10 Projects
• Languages don't all have the same number of terms for colors – scientists have a new theory why
• The quest to find genes that drive severe COVID
  Genome studies have discovered some genetic risk factors for disease — and could point to treatments.
• (400) https://twitter.com/saadomer3/status/1419105819510120449
  RT @DrZoeHyde: This worries me as well. I didn’t think that antigenic drift would occur so quickly. Mind you, I expected countries to make an effort to suppress transmission.

  More transmission = greater risk of variants.

  Knowing this, why are some nations allowing unfettered transmission?

• A.I. Predicts the Shapes of Molecules to Come
  DeepMind has given 3-D structure to 350,000 proteins, including every one made by humans, promising a boon for medicine and drug design.
• ‘It Is All Connected’: Extreme Weather in the Age of Climate Change
  The storm that brought flooding and devastation to parts of Europe is the latest example of an extreme weather event. More are expected.
• How to prepare for wildfire smoke in your home, car and while outdoors
  From using respirator masks to building your own air cleaner, here’s how to minimize your exposure to wildfire smoke in your home, car and while outdoors this summer.
• Pasco Sheriff’s Office letter targets residents for ‘increased accountability’
  Critics of the agency’s intelligence programs called the letter ‘patronizing’ and ‘offensive,’ and raised continued concerns about civil rights

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• Jeanette Winterson: ‘The male push is to discard the planet: all the boys are going off into space’ — The Guardian
  The writer’s new essay collection covers 200 years of women and science. She discusses burning books and the ensuing Twitter storm, the end of her marriage, and why a move into politics could be next
• Play Is Serious Business for Elephants – Scientific American
  Young dogs, apes and other animals develop skills needed to survive and reproduce
• How the Delta variant achieves its ultrafast spread
  Viral load is roughly 1,000 times higher in people infected with the Delta variant than those infected with the original coronavirus strain, according to a study in China.
• Three Lunches and a Funeral: Life Lessons With Nora Ephron — The Atlantic
  Gather friends and feed them, laugh in the face of calamity, and cut out all the things––people, jobs, body parts––that no longer serve you.
• Type Tuesday: Geometric Arabic Typographic Bliss
  For the past three years, Mohamed Samir has been on a mission: to show how design from the Arabic world can impact and enrich the global scene with its unique and brilliant aesthetic.

  So far, he has taken a three-pronged approach that skillfully blends Arabic typography and geometry: two series of posters, three exhibitions (Chicago Typeforce11, Sharjah Rasm, Dubai Fully Booked), and the branding of Nike’s largest store in the world, located in Dubai.

• Trail Guides & Maps for Hiking, Camping, and Running | AllTrails
• (400) https://twitter.com/7StellarJays/status/1419030848200974353/photo/1
  RT @7StellarJays: Got some nice clear shots of a female organ pipe mud dauber bringing in mud to build her nest.
  (Trypoxylon politum)
• (400) https://twitter.com/k8_lister/status/1418903705525657601
  RT @LucyMangan: This is such a great question. Possibly the only question (37)
• (400) https://twitter.com/HopeRehak/status/1418701938682646528/photo/1
  RT @HopeRehak: Seen on ig days ago, still messing me up
• Opinion | American Dysfunction Is the Biggest Barrier to Fighting Covid
  Lax vaccination and haphazard rules on masking sabotage the fight against the Delta variant in the U.S.
• iPhone Photography Awards
• A Surprising Gift from my Wrongful Conviction
• Column: Eric Clapton's not God, just another vile anti-vaxxer – Los Angeles Times
• Erythropoietin – Wikipedia
• Introducing Intrinsic. Unlocking the creative and economic… | by Wendy Tan-White | Jul, 2021 | X, the moonshot factory
  Intrinsic is working to unlock the creative and economic potential of industrial robotics for millions more businesses, entrepreneurs, and developers. We’re developing software tools designed to make industrial robots (which are used to make everything from solar panels to cars) easier to use, less costly and more flexible, so that more people can use them to make new products, businesses and services

  Alphabet company.

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• More than 130 dead in India as rains trigger floods, landslides — CNN
  At least 136 people have died in the west Indian state of Maharashtra, authorities said Saturday, after torrential monsoon rains caused landslides and flooded low-lying areas, cutting off hundreds of villages.
• Remote Work Is Destroying the World's Most Remote Destinations
• Trendy
  Discover Trending Topics, News & Search Trends at any location.
• The Untold Stories of Wes Studi, an Overlooked Native American Icon | GQ
• Sea snot, stars and sleeping elephants — June’s best science images
• There's 1 obvious solution to the Delta variant: Mandatory vaccination | The Week
• Untitled (https://www.nytimes.com/2021/07/22/us/politics/kavanaugh-fbi-investigation.html)
  RT @brianefallon: In a new letter sent to the Senate, the FBI admits it never meaningfully investigated the claims against Brett Kavanaugh because it was only empowered to talk to people that were approved by the Trump White House.
• What 'Ted Lasso' taught us about abuse, recovery and the pitfalls of revenge
• Untitled (https://calmatters.org/environment/2021/07/illegal-marijuana-growers-steal-california-water/)
  RT @kateconger: completely crazy story @julie_cart
• (400) https://twitter.com/kateconger/status/1417537494015385609/photo/1
  RT @kateconger: completely crazy story @julie_cart

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• (400) https://twitter.com/jherrerx/status/1418233857405595652
  RT @afrodesiaq: "mistakenly"

  it’s wild bc i’ve been telling ppl that this happened to my brother for years and the standard reaction (after "yr lying that couldn’t happen") is "well he was a criminal so 🤷🏻‍♀️" cuz obv they wouldn’t do that to REAL people (read: white/w no criminal record)

• (400) https://twitter.com/nbcnewyork/status/1418152716430413827
  RT @nycsouthpaw: ☆。 ★。 ☆ ★
  。☆ 。☆。☆
  ★。＼｜／。★
  fully fund
  successful
  alternatives
  to the police
  ★。／｜＼。★
  。 ☆。☆。☆
  ☆。 ★。 ☆ ★
  (\__/) ||
  (•ㅅ•) ||
  / 　 づ
• Untitled (https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/07/australia-s-cockatoos-are-masters-dumpster-diving-and-now-they-re-learning-each-other)
  Australia’s cockatoos are masters of dumpster diving—and now they’re learning from each other
• (400) https://twitter.com/amygdala/status/1418574180849696768/photo/1
  Australia’s cockatoos are masters of dumpster diving—and now they’re learning from each other
• A People’s History of Black Twitter, Part I
  From #UKnowUrBlackWhen to #BlackLivesMatter, how a loose online network became a pop culture juggernaut, an engine of social justice, and a lens into the future.
• How opium, caffeine and mescaline shaped the world – and got us hooked
• Home-brew heroin: soon anyone will be able to make illegal drugs
• Oliver Sacks’s Scientific Childhood | The New Yorker
• We Are Satellites: A science fiction novel that will stay in your head | Fantasy Literature
• Ancient 15,000-Year-Old Viruses Identified in Melting Tibetan Glaciers
  RT @earthislandjrnl: Researchers have been able to identify an archive of dozens of unique 15,000-years-old #viruses from the Guliya ice cap of the Tibetan Plateau, and gain insights into their functions. This is actually more cool than scary!
• Beets Are a Too-Common Substitute for Meat Dishes
  hypermanipulated beet
• (400) https://twitter.com/PubliusorPerish/status/1418012726761332739/photo/1
  RT @PubliusorPerish: From the autobiography of Ben Franklin.
• Opinion | What I Saw in Yosemite Was Devastating
  What does it mean if we can’t protect even our protected land from climate change?
• I Had Stopped Masking—Until Delta – The Atlantic
  RT @edyong209: Fantastic, clear, thoughtful piece by @KatherineJWu.

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• (400) https://twitter.com/RobertVore/status/1417294704094351360/photo/1
  RT @RobertVore: It’s rude how called out I am by this.
• (400) https://twitter.com/nbcnewyork/status/1417929927773630466
  RT @ScottHech: 57% of the NYPD refusing to get vaccinated is very on brand for this deadly agency.
• Nest Protect – Smart Smoke & CO Alarm – Google Store
• Heating instructions – Frelard Tamales
• Massive DNA ‘Borg’ structures perplex scientists
• Fire and Smoke Map
• Putting the power of AlphaFold into the world’s hands | DeepMind
• Highly accurate protein structure prediction for the human proteome | Nature
  Protein structures can provide invaluable information, both for reasoning about biological processes and for enabling interventions such as structure-based drug development or targeted mutagenesis. After decades of effort, 17% of the total residues in human protein sequences are covered by an experimentally-determined structure1. Here we dramatically expand structural coverage by applying the state-of-the-art machine learning method, AlphaFold2, at scale to almost the entire human proteome (98.5% of human proteins). The resulting dataset covers 58% of residues with a confident prediction, of which a subset (36% of all residues) have very high confidence. We introduce several metrics developed by building on the AlphaFold model, and use them to interpret the dataset, identifying strong multi-domain predictions as well as regions likely to be disordered. Finally, we provide some case studies illustrating how high-quality predictions may be used to generate biological hypotheses. Importantly, we are making our predictions freely available to the community via a public database (hosted by the European Bioinformatics Institute at https://alphafold.ebi.ac.uk/). We anticipate that routine large-scale and high-accuracy structure prediction will become an important tool, allowing new questions to be addressed from a structural perspective.
• (400) https://twitter.com/Mo_Heidarzadeh/status/1417111827834621961/video/1
  RT @Mo_Heidarzadeh: Dramatic collapse of Xinfa embankment dam in northern #China due to overtopping that happened yesterday. Note how quickly dam is washed away! This is despite the dam has a large-capacity chute-type spillway and a bottom outlet which acts as an emergency spillway. See photo below.
• What Are Omics Sciences? | SpringerLink
  The word omics refers to a field of study in biological sciences that ends with -omics, such as genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, or metabolomics. The ending -ome is used to address the objects of study of such fields, such as the genome, proteome, transcriptome, or metabolome, respectively. More specifically genomics is the science that studies the structure, function, evolution, and mapping of genomes and aims at characterization and quantification of genes, which direct the production of proteins with the assistance of enzymes and messenger molecules. Transcriptome is the set of all messenger RNA molecules in one cell, tissue, or organism. It includes the amount or concentration of each RNA molecule in addition to the molecular identities. The term proteome refers to the sum of all the proteins in a cell, tissue, or organism. Proteomics is the science that studies those proteins as related to their biochemical properties and functional roles, and how their quantities, modifications, and structures change during growth and in response to internal and external stimuli. The metabolome represents the collection of all metabolites in a biological cell, tissue, organ, or organism, which are the end products of cellular processes. Metabolomics is the science that studies all chemical processes involving metabolites. More specifically, metabolomics is the study of chemical fingerprints that specific cellular processes establish during their activity; it is the study of all small-molecule metabolite profiles. Overall, the objective of omics sciences is to identify, characterize, and quantify all biological molecules that are involved in the structure, function, and dynamics of a cell, tissue, or organism.
• (How to) Generate an unmapped BAM from FASTQ or aligned BAM – GATK
  Here we outline how to generate an unmapped BAM (uBAM) from either a FASTQ or aligned BAM file. We use Picard’s FastqToSam to convert a FASTQ (Option A) or Picard’s RevertSam to convert an aligned BAM (Option B).
• Why America's COVID-19 Vaccine Rates Are Plummeting – The Atlantic
• A Shout-Out to Coach Beard and Brendan Hunt, the Quiet Hero of Ted Lasso
• Ted Lasso Season 2 Review: Ted Lasso, You’ve Done it Again
• Single-cell analysis enters the multiomics age
• (400) https://twitter.com/EmslieDustin/status/1417475793270099973/video/1
  RT @EmslieDustin: Some heroes saving a women. The amount of water flowing down there is horrifying. The city is still being pounded by heavy rain, it doesn’t seem to be letting up. #zhengzhou
• (400) https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1417480377766137861/video/1
  RT @manyapan: The videos shared on Chinese social media about the floodings in Henan following the heavy rain really show the severity of the situation. These are some of them.
• Untitled (https://gist.github.com/sararob/1eea7ae2b08e85851855ec2eff8c2d8b)
  RT @SRobTweets: Want to automate your model retraining pipelines? I wrote a little Cloud Function that kicks off a Vertex Pipeline run when new training data is available 👩🏻‍💻
• (400) https://twitter.com/JulianCastro/status/1415733319933861895/photo/1
  RT @JulianCastro: Under the Texas voter suppression bill, Proud Boys could serve as poll watchers.

  They’d be empowered to stand close enough to “observe election activity.”

  Even if they break the law, a new ‘one-intimidation allowed’ rule prevents a judge from removing them without a warning.

• (400) https://twitter.com/manyapan/status/1417480423379197956/video/1
  RT @manyapan: Subway passengers trapped in the water.
• (400) https://twitter.com/emilylhauser/status/1417551222903541764/photo/1
  RT @emilylhauser: Your occasional reminder that the people in power have successfully dragged their feet on the #FightFor15 for so long that it should now be the #FightForNearly18
• Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder: 9780385546812 | PenguinRandomHouse.com: Books
• Drug Distributors and J.&J. Reach $26 Billion Deal to End Opioids Lawsuits
  The agreement would allow funds to begin flowing from the companies to states and communities to pay for addiction and prevention services.
• Adam Roberts & Lisa Duggan on Ayn Rand | The Book Club | The Spectator
• Why Apple’s walled garden is no match for Pegasus spyware | Technology | The Guardian

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