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A study conducted at the CiTOS Lab potentially reshapes the preparation of high-value compounds in organic chemistry. This innovative approach combines Quantum Chemistry and enabling the generation of optimized process conditions within minutes, completely waste-free. The project establishes a robust foundation for a radical shift in the approach to preparing high-value organic compounds.

https://www.molsys.uliege.be/cms/c_12284394/en/a-new-paradigm-for-reaction-optimization-in-organic-chemistry

Accelerating the optimization of new processes while minimizing waste generation by combining Quantum Chemistry, Artificial Intelligence, and cutting-edge micro/mesofluidic technologies. Credit : Pauline Bianchi/CiTOS

🚨PAY ATTENTION: tomorrow the US House votes on two bills.

An actual intelligence reform bill and this bad, fake reform bill.

No exaggeration to call this an unprecedented spying expansion.

Cloud companies & customers should be *deeply concerned*

Not only does it contain massive surveillance expansions...

But the bill's accompanying materials carefully avoided mentioning them.

That should be your sign: something is up.

Should ever live up to the hype and actually achieve , I'm certain we worry so much about it killing us all in our sleep because *we* invented it.

If history proves anything, it's that humanity is adept at inadvertently killing itself, and professionally adept at advertently killing anything resembling an out-group.

In short, until we can trust that we don't constantly want to inadvertently kill ourselves, or give others suspicion that we constantly want to kill them -- we have no business inventing other intelligent forms of existence.

But, let's not hide the elephant in the room.

As soon as we do invent true artificial , we'll immediately employ it to more effectively kill out-groups that don't have it. So, at the end of the day, if it turns on us and kills us all, we'd deserve it.

📌 Every week, we highlight an from our collection. This week’s pick:

"An introduction to (mettā): and freedom in the Pāli discourses of the " 🌺🤝🕊️ by Andrea Sangiacomo.

🔗 https://books.ugp.rug.nl/index.php/ugp/catalog/book/86

📜 Friendliness, or mettā in the Middle Indo-Aryan liturgical language of Pāli, is understood as an attitude of and non-aversion towards all sentient beings, including oneself.

A book cover featuring a painting of a hand holding a rose, with the title "An introduction to friendliness (mettā): Emotional intelligence and freedom in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha," author Andrea Sangiacomo, and the publisher, "University of Groningen Press."
A book cover featuring a painting of a hand holding a rose, with the title "An introduction to friendliness (mettā): Emotional intelligence and freedom in the Pāli discourses of the Buddha," author Andrea Sangiacomo, and the publisher, "University of Groningen Press."

Lo sapevi che il 10% di internet è crittografato con le “Lampade lava”?

Il processo di delle si è rivelato molto più entusiasmante di quanto potresti pensare. Gli studi hanno dimostrato che le vengono utilizzate per proteggere circa il 10% del traffico Internet.

https://www.redhotcyber.com/post/lo-sapevi-che-il-10-di-internet-e-crittografato-con-le-lampade-lava/

’ problem-solving skills linked to song complexity https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/09/birds-problem-solving-skills-linked-to-song-complexity/

species that display more-complex vocal learning are better problem-solvers and have larger brains https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adh3428

"the ability to learn complex new songs is associated with problem-solving in a large range of species. But other things we associate with , like associative learning, seem completely unrelated."

photo of a small bird