Daniel Probst

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Currently working on #cheminformatics, #bioinformatics, sociology of #science, and some #astronomy @ EPFL.

Computer scientist, Bioinformatician, PhD in #Chemistry and Molecular Sciences. Interested in all the sciences. Materialist. Fan of #cats, #Punk Rock, and #Hockey.

๐ŸŒhttps://danielprobst.science
ORCIDhttps://orcid.org/my-orcid?orcid=0000-0003-1737-4407
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Podcast (German)https://interessant.science

"Coca-Cola used AI to create its newest flavor"

Of course the company that (allegedly) hired paramilitary thugs to kill unionising workers in Colombia is using "AI" to create its newest flavour.

https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/coke-s-latest-mystery-flavour-is-here-it-s-created-by-ai-1.6558252

Coke's latest mystery flavour is here. Itโ€™s created by AI

For about a year and a half, Coca-Cola has experimented with limited-edition beverages that have mystery tastes โ€” most of them with vague, futuristic concepts and undisclosed flavours.

CTVNews

Due to extensive flooding, ~20% of Greece's agricultural production is gone for at least the next 5 years.

(Source (oh the irony): https://www.ft.com/content/b46d34c0-fef8-45f2-8930-a01c10b4d13a)

Extreme flooding caused by Storm Daniel devastates Greece

Heavy rainfall kills at least 10 people as fire department evacuates thousands from worst-hit areas

Financial Times
@imsodin that's pretty cool though ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿป and for code quality in publications, well, the bar is quite low there ๐Ÿ˜‰
@FourT4 It was definitely a guy who drew it though
@AstroMichi that was shockingly recent
Happy birthday Clara
115 years ago, the Swiss voted to make absinthe illegal. The cause for many to vote yes was the case of a vineyard worker in Vaudโ€”before murdering his wife and children, he drank 2 glasses of absinthe (in addition to the daily 5 litres of wine)
@imsodin Cool! Do you have it online somewhere?
@victor_tokarev It's based on the van der Waals radii. :-)
@imsodin My own to up to writing out a .ply file and then just opened it in meshlab du take a snapshot