pinboard January 26, 2022

• The Case Against the Trauma Plot
  Fiction writers love it. Filmmakers can’t resist it. But does this trope deepen characters, or flatten them into a set of symptoms?

  Parul Sehgal

• emotional support trauma plot – by Brandon
• Remembering the smart, sharp, naughty Betty White
  Betty White was smart and sharp, sexy and versatile, for decades. Anyone who saw her as just a salty-mouthed grandma missed out.
• Deepmind's Mustafa Suleyman Quits Google, Saying 'I Really Screwed up'
• Google Team That Keeps Services Online Rocked by Mental Health Crisis
• Big data study suggests the human brain navigates by taking the "pointiest path" rather than the shortest path
• Metagenomic discovery of CRISPR-associated transposons | PNAS
  CRISPR-Cas systems confer bacteria and archaea with adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. These systems also participate in other cellular processes. For example, CRISPR-associated Tn7 transposons (CASTs) have co-opted nuclease-inactive CRISPR effector proteins to guide their transposition. We bioinformatically survey metagenomic databases to uncover CASTs, including systems with new architectures and ones that use distinct CRISPR subtypes. We also describe a putative non-Tn7 CAST that co-opts Cas12. Our findings propose mechanisms for vertical and horizontal CAST targeting and shed light on how CASTs have coevolved with CRISPR-Cas systems.
• (400) https://twitter.com/josephmiles35/status/1484545351923212290
  Bio-pharma organizations can now leverage the groundbreaking protein folding system, AlphaFold, with Vertex AI.
• The Utility of White-Hot Rage
  Living in the era of climate change might make us feel guilt, or grief, or anger. How do those who think about these problems every day keep going?
• (400) https://twitter.com/groenbot/status/1485359273777500162
  RT @theferocity: My eyebrows went up and STAYED up.
• Silicon Valley’s New Obsession: Science Funding – The Atlantic
• Seattle Medium: Seattle Legalizes Psychedelics
• The Seattle Times: University of Washington, Seattle University to return to in-person classes
• Ars Technica: Booby-trapped sites delivered potent new backdoor trojan to macOS users
• The Verge: Meta has built an AI supercomputer it says will be world’s fastest by end of 2022
• A former Google scientist has a new approach to make AI more ethical – The Washington Post
• Google AI Blog: Learning to Route by Task for Efficient Inference
• Google AI Blog: Introducing StylEx: A New Approach for Visual Explanation of Classifiers
• A closer look at how LinkedIn integrates fairness into its AI products | LinkedIn Engineering
• Transformers. Transformer models have become the… | by Vinithavn | Geek Culture | Jan, 2022 | Medium
• The Washington Post: Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman speaks publicly for first time since Jan. 6 insurrection

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