Hacker News on Wednesday, 8 May 2024

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Screenshot of blog.google: AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules (blog.google)

1059 points by zerojames 2 years ago | 455 comments

Google blog post announcing AlphaFold 3, an AI model from Google DeepMind and Isomorphic Labs that predicts structures and interactions of proteins, DNA, RNA and ligands.

alphafold deepmind isomorphic-labs protein-structure

Screenshot of chromakode.com: Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"(chromakode.com)

659 points by chromakode 2 years ago | 77 comments

Blog post by chromakode with development notes on building xkcd's 2024 April Fools collaborative Rube Goldberg-style "Machine" comic.

xkcd april-fools physics-simulation collaborative-art

Screenshot of hao-ai-lab.github.io: Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x

Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x (hao-ai-lab.github.io)

447 points by zhisbug 2 years ago | 94 comments

Hao AI Lab blog post introducing Consistency LLMs, a method that fine-tunes LLMs into parallel Jacobi decoders to speed up inference about 3.5x.

consistency-llm llm-inference parallel-decoding jacobi-decoding

Screenshot of grafychat.com: Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT

Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT (grafychat.com)

400 points by setnone 2 years ago | 112 comments

Landing page for grafychat, a browser-based, local-first non-linear canvas UI for chatting with AI models like OpenAI, Gemini and Ollama using your own API keys.

chatgpt llm-interface openai gemini

Screenshot of github.com: TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting

Hacker News on Wednesday, 8 May 2024

AlphaFold 3 predicts the structure and interactions of life's molecules (blog.google)

Development Notes from xkcd's "Machine"(chromakode.com)

Consistency LLM: converting LLMs to parallel decoders accelerates inference 3.5x (hao-ai-lab.github.io)

Show HN: I built a non-linear UI for ChatGPT (grafychat.com)

TimesFM: Time Series Foundation Model for time-series forecasting (github.com)

Opening Windows in Linux with sockets, bare hands and 200 lines of C (hereket.com)

Breathwork supports emergence of altered states of consciousness (researchsquare.com)

Symbolica Computer Algebra System (symbolica.io)

A Man Who Raced to Tell the World That Mount Everest Had Been Climbed (outsideonline.com)

Logicola 3 (medium.com)

Logarithmic Scales (briefer.cloud)

Bringing psql’s \d to your web browser (neon.tech)

Computer models suggest modern plate tectonics due to blobs left by collision (phys.org)

Radient – vectorize many data types, not just text (github.com)

Show HN: A simple 2D fluid and gravity simulation with WASM and WebGL (aestuans.github.io)

HiFi-DRAM: Enabling High-Fidelity DRAM Research by Uncovering Sense Amplifiers (comsec.ethz.ch)

Putting a Wet Towel on a Tesla Supercharger Handle Gets Faster Charging Speeds (insideevs.com)

Estimating Pi with Kafka streams (fredrikmeyer.net)