Researchers in China have unveiled a new AI framework that could accelerate the discovery of new medicines. DrugCLIP can scan millions of potential drug compounds against thousands of protein targets in just a few hours—ten million times faster than current virtual screening methods.
Clear, concise, to the point! Going to spam this again, because of course the Dialectal Dispatches article reminded me of it. https://archive.org/details/wastemakers00pack
Oh yeah that’s a great read. Vance Packard really hit on something visceral because he wasn’t just complaining about junk but was instead dissecting the intentional psychological and economic engineering of a throwaway culture. Framing the whole post-war American economy as a sort of runaway train where the only way to keep the wheels turning is to force people to buy things they don’t need with money they don’t have is a really valuable insight in my opinion.