› added 3 months ago

10

TIL in 2020, it was announced that AlphaFold, a neural network based on DeepMind AI, can predict a protein's final shape based solely on its amino-acid chain with an accuracy of 90%. Predicting the structure of a polypeptide from its sequence is considered of the greatest challenges in biology.

Read more nature.com

via reddit.com

neyZo TIL Altoids tins (The mint containers) are used as makeshift casings for custom electronics. Texas Instruments even makes a open source computer board called BeagleBoard with rounded corners to more easily fit into an Altoids tin.
aGj9 TIL that Starbucks spends more money on health insurance for its employees than on coffee beans.
m1G4x TIL George Washington feared that partisanship would lead to a “spirit of revenge” in which party men would not govern for the good of the people, but only to obtain and maintain their grip on power.
yYWa TIL The official Twitter account of Sweden is given to a random Swedish citizen every week to manage.
woKVW TIL the oldest European building in Australia was a fort constructed by Wiebbe Hayes and his soldiers in 1629 after being marooned following a mutiny. The mutineers hoped they would die, but they actually managed to survive while fending off three separate attacks by the mutineers.