If the effort is sustained until it reaches maturity.

Sayak Paul @RisingSayak  After we enabled “Discussions” on the Diffusers repo, we started getting really high-quality stuff đź’« Check them out here: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/discussions My favorite is: https://github.com/huggingface/diffusers/discussions/6991 https://pic.twitter.com/nzreEgHXc1 Replying to @RisingSayak Paul, Duhhh! I hope you are not just now learning that enabling, recording, summarizing, indexing, encouraging, curating, organizing and sharing knowledge from global open
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you are not “real” parents unless …

Osvaldo Contreras @osvaldoics  In Sydney, 🇦🇺 prices range around $40,000-45,000 AUD a year. Without child support for new immigrants, the situation is not far worse The cost is prohibitive in many ways. x.com/frankiedheywar… Frankie D Heyward, Ph.D.  @FrankieDHeyward A postdoc with a newborn just told me daycare in Boston is ~$30,000/year 🤯 Despite having dual
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Grossly inefficient for global users

Eric Jang @ericjang11  relatable x.com/liz_love_lace/… Liz Lovelace! @liz_love_lace very correct take, developers take note https://pic.twitter.com/vc7jIqa1wR Replying to @ericjang11 Only about 1 in 10,000 of the roughly 5 billion humans using the Internet strives to be software developers. “Open” developer sites are some of the worst run and least focused sites on the Internet, after edu
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they charge $35,000 per human equivalent work year

Jeffrey Mold @Jeff_Mold  We need more people studying p63… https://biomarkerres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s40364-021-00260-5 Replying to @Jeff_Mold Happy to put some of my AIs on it, but with their certifications and training, they charge $35,000 per human equivalent work year. You can get a cost break if they run 24/7 off an open shared cluster and have rights to
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Is her name Sora?

Mel_Goodale @action_brain Photo taken by my daughter from the window of the cottage at Lake of Bays on this snowy February afternoon. The snow squall has just passed through. https://pic.twitter.com/RKqGvvCLpP Replying to @action_brain Is her name Sora? Your daughter’s work is much more natural, and pleasing. Probably not. Enjoy the snow and take time with
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Lossless categorization is perfect recording and sharing

CLaE @leafs_s THE MIT PRESS  How We Sort the World: Gregory Murphy on the Psychology of Categories “Every category is a simplification to some degree; it throws away information about the thing.” https://thereader.mitpress.mit.edu/how-we-sort-the-world-gregory-murphy-on-the-psychology-of-categories/ Replying to @leafs_s Lossless categorization is called perfect memory. Extremely efficient and can be re-run in the future because you did not throw
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One way “publishers and readers” is out of date

Emily Waltz @EmWaltz  The world’s first commercial-scale ethanol-to-jet fuel plant has begun producing its first gallons of aviation fuel. The plant is part of a larger scheme to eventually make jet fuel from microbes. @NatureBiotech @LanzaTech @LanzaJet https://nature.com/articles/s41587-024-02136-z Replying to @EmWaltz @NatureBiotech and 2 others Dear Nature, Serious global issues require serious global effort by
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“Talking about” is never true sharing.

Francesco Pasqualini @fspasqualini  We can now directly “see” the central dogma of biology! For all the negativity around Academia on Social Media, this type of thing can only be done by dedicated basic science researchers! Congrats @tim_stasevich and team! x.com/tim_stasevich/… Timothy @tim_stasevich A dream of our lab has been to image the full central dogma
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