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Jordi Xiol
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Science, history, and drug development | vineyardbooks.substack.com/
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Midjourney always made better images than DALL-E. With its new version 6, it also gained that fine understanding of language. AGI may be coming, but at the moment AI is still highly specialized

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Darwin to Margulis

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Same here if you need them I got 5

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We’re slowly going from “humans are much more intelligent than machines” to “human intelligence is much more power-efficient than machines’“

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My vote for drug launch of the year goes to Beyfortus. Simple and elegant molecular biology to extend the half-life of an antibody, protecting newborns against RSV when they most need it A blockbuster in the making $AZN $SNY

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And finally, a generational classic: “There is grandeur in this view of life, with its several powers, having been originally breathed into a few forms or into one; and that [...] from so simple a beginning endless forms most beautiful and most wonderful have been, and are being, evolved.” /end

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Disagreeing with experts is hard. But sometimes you must: "All the most eminent paleontologists […] have unanimously, often vehemently, maintained the immutability of species. […] I feel how rash it is to differ from these great authorities, to whom, with others, we owe all our knowledge" /5

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Life had only one beginning: "I should infer from analogy that probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which life was first breathed" /4

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Don't base your assumptions on miracles: "The simplicity of the view that each species was first produced within a single region captivates the mind. He who rejects it, rejects the vera causa of ordinary generation with subsequent migration, and calls in the agency of a miracle" /3

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People can't grasp change: “The chief cause of our natural unwillingness to admit that one species has given birth to other and distinct species, is that we are always slow in admitting any great change of which we do not see the intermediate steps” 2/

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Science, history, and drug development | vineyardbooks.substack.com/
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