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John Trant

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Assoc Prof UWindsor, Faculty of Science Research Chair; married to @shufflersunite.bsky.social he/him/you bastard Probably writing a grant. Big Ottawa Senators Fan. www.trantteam.ca AND www.binarystarchem.ca. Total scientific saturation at an epochal pace

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So the USA will no longer make or use computers? Because this is how you do that. You don't throw up a microchip manufacturer with trained staff in less than about 10 years from a standing start.

07.08.2025 04:53 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I have no thoughts on this matter. But, I want to applaud the use of an interrobang. I love them. Trying to use them in more papers.

07.08.2025 03:11 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Sir, I am 41.

06.08.2025 12:44 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Yay!!!!! Congrats!!! We need to celebrate the victories too.

05.08.2025 01:02 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Another good way to get amino acids is to eat food. And that is cheaper.

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

But eventually it would make it to your liver (and by eventually I mean in minutes or seconds) where it would start getting chopped up into basic amino acids. Which COULD get turned into collagen again. Or anything else.

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

But, let's say it does. For funsies. Then it would get either into your lymph or blood. Where it would start getting eaten by proteases. Because you aren't supposed to have random proteins floating around. Your body controls that.

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

So what happens? If this is a dmso suspension, very short disordered collagen chains MIGHT get into your body. But that is called gelatin. You can buy it in bulk real cheap. Otherwise it does not penetrate the skin. It can't.

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This is not how proteins work. You do not "become" the protein. It does not get used in your body unmodified. Otherwise we would all be grain. These are scams. Dumb ass scams. It's really hard to make protein based drugs. And really hard to get them into the body.

03.08.2025 20:06 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Talked about this to my wife last week. She does not enjoy men on ships as a genre...so not her thing. But yes, awesomely well written and great pacing!

03.08.2025 19:54 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Pretty close description actually.

03.08.2025 11:15 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

This has got real Nero vibes. Or Sun King with the Versailles gamble without any of the upside or rationale that Louis had for building the damn thing (hint: wasn't cause he loved the bling...).

So stupid ass Sun King. A Spray Tan Sun King if you will.

01.08.2025 02:17 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

If you are going to publish my peer review comments in a way that I now assume reputations risk...you better pay me for peer review.

30.07.2025 11:55 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

The millennial experience: can't afford a home because too busy eating avocado toast and taking CEO jobs from gen x.

30.07.2025 11:54 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

I'm sure, just before the last Proton pops out of existence at the heat death of the universe, someone will be saying that.

30.07.2025 11:33 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Amen.

29.07.2025 21:10 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

To be fair, he is clearly well to the right on the cover. So it tracks with the words not matching the actions/reality.

29.07.2025 16:56 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

"We would like to invite you to this mandatory training session"

Thanks for liking to mandate me attending? I guess? Better than:

"Dr. Trant, show up to this mandatory online training in the new system or ELSE"

29.07.2025 14:51 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

So anyways, the 90 or so researchers in my group are all happy to work with everyone on making their drugs work better. Or finding new drugs. Or figuring out whatever you need to figure out. Because once everyone wastes trillions on AI bullshit, we will still be here, doing things right.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 2    πŸ“Œ 0

We are happy to offer this HUGE breakthrough in providing a system you can trust with your data and your designs to efficiently develop entirely novel solutions that step outside the training set of the system. It is self-learning, and makes intuitive leaps impossible for current gen LLMs.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

This system is available on flexible rates to industrial partners depending on their need for data generation, analysis, or capacity, but is considerably cheaper and more flexible than most self-driving labs that are being designed to integrate AI with robots.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Input can use natural language, either written or spoken, and is exceptionally good at understanding ambiguities and improper instructions. It will correct the user for false assumptions and will be polite and respectful, but will not blow smoke up your ass like the AI products from Silicon Valley.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The combined system is incredibly flexible to adapt to a variety of different types of problems without extensive retraining of the models, and can advance and advise, and even generate significant high quality experimental data on multiple projects at once!

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

That we can input into them. Furthermore, they base all their outputs on either actual published scientific literature or the results of physical experiments, and unlike LLMs do not invent references or sound equally confident regardless of the data support for the conclusions.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Furthermore, unlike chatbots and simple LLMs, these are attached to physical entities that can operate independently in the world, and mostly don't fall over very often. They are extremely good at navigating new environments, and adept at learning how to use instruments and tools be absorbing text.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 0    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

The parallel processing power of these systems is several thousand-fold that of the best current GPU clusters, and they can conduct highly parallel and unusual calculations that traditional computing systems struggle with. Possible due to a non-binary connectome with quantum computing elements.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 1    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

I'd like to announce that Binary Star Research Services, in collaboration with my academic group is launching a new service to accelerate all drug discovery, called SciAInce. It comprises a constantly evolving neural network using about 90 massively complex neural architectures.

28.07.2025 22:05 β€” πŸ‘ 3    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 1    πŸ“Œ 0

Just a few years ago they were saying that if a chat bot gives they same answers they do, that counts as uploading their consciousness and achieving immortality. I feel like we've reached that point. A few lines of prompting and they can all now proceed to decommission their obsolete wetware.

28.07.2025 21:24 β€” πŸ‘ 4    πŸ” 2    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

A very strong floor. Like I know we academics sometimes like to blend into the background. But this is taking it a bit far.

28.07.2025 16:13 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

Did the New York Post discover the clitoris? Good for them.

25.07.2025 19:58 β€” πŸ‘ 2    πŸ” 0    πŸ’¬ 0    πŸ“Œ 0

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