I wrote up how I built the shitty robot so you can too. This was a fun project that will keep on giving.
Thanks to all the open weights folks out there, without whom this would not have been possible.
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A tiny bee just did what chemotherapy couldn't.
Scientists in Australia discovered that honeybee venom can wipe out 100% of aggressive breast cancer cells in under 60 minutes.
And the healthy cells around them? Barely touched.
The breakthrough came from Dr. Ciara Duffy and her team at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research, working alongside the University of Western Australia.
They tested venom drawn from 312 honeybees and bumblebees across Australia, Ireland, and England.
The target: triple-negative breast cancer and HER2-enriched breast cancer. Two of the deadliest, most stubborn forms of the disease.
The weapon: melittin. The same tiny peptide that makes a bee sting burn.
At one specific dose, melittin tore through cancer cell membranes completely within an hour. Within just 20 minutes, it shut down the chemical signals cancer cells need to grow and multiply.
Bumblebee venom, which lacks melittin, did nothing. Zero effect, even at high concentrations.
Scientists then recreated melittin synthetically in the lab and got almost identical results, meaning no bees need to be harmed to develop the therapy.
Published in the peer-reviewed journal npj Precision Oncology, the findings are still early-stage. Human trials haven't happened yet.
But one thing is clear. Nature has been hiding answers in plain sight all along, sometimes inside the smallest creatures on Earth.
Source: Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research / npj Precision Oncology (Dr. Ciara Duffy et al.)
@scottmcnealy Now calm down. It’s a start.
No other country would apologize for these types of “administrative fines”. If any foreigner tells you otherwise they’re lying.
@WallStreetApes That bill was signed into law by the ultra far right wing president William Jefferson Clinton.
Do you think the Democrats who call Trump a racist for enforcing the law will call Clinton a racist for signing the law?
@evanrossdavis@pmarca Well said. “Security” has become a catch-all. We need to start with Asimov’s laws of robotics. Of course we’re in an era where a small percentage of doctors, and a larger percentage of bio-researchers don’t adhere to the Hippocratic oath. Is AI supposed to police them?
@TwoEaglesMom2@as400495@ndstudio Graph databases are a start, but I’ve had some luck letting AI crawl fieldless source data and look for patterns and correlations. At the very least you find uses for hashing and storage optimization. And sometimes some PII in legacy databases.
@tia_zoila@ndstudio Are you suggesting a pod-based meritocracy? Perhaps cellular or compartmentalized tasking to encourage overlap/optimization and discourage self aggrandizement and backdoors? I’m in. The taskmaster needs to be AI though. 🤔
Kash Patel's girlfriend files frivolous $5 million lawsuits against MAGA influencers for 'insinuating' she's a Mossad honeypot
Filed by the director of Patel's foundation, one lawsuit targets @ElijahSchaffer for criticizing Israeli influence over Trump https://t.co/hbbfz0HBse
In the past 24 hours — as the hostages were freed in a peace deal he brokered — President Trump:
— Flew to Israel
— Spoke to the press
— Met with Israeli leaders
— Spoke to the press
— Met with families of the hostages
— Delivered an hourlong speech to The Knesset
— Did an interview
— Flew to Egypt
— Met with the Egyptian President
— Spoke to the press
— Took photos and chatted individually with dozens of world leaders
— Signed the historic Gaza Peace Deal
— Delivered another speech
— Met privately with world leaders
— Flew back to the U.S.
Our Great President of Peace.
@IanCarrollShow@LibertyLockPod Bro just tell the whole truth. Their scared gig is up. Humanity is waking up at an expeditious rate.
Do the right thing.
I won’t go into character flaws of great revolutionaries like Lincoln, Kennedy, and King; all public figures make disagreeable statements. Charlie wanted us all to think critically and debate. That gift was delivered by a human, a father, a husband, a son.
MSNBC just speculated the Charlie Kirk shooting could have “been a supporter shooting their gun off in celebration.”
I have no words for how awful these people are.