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Daily Bookmarks to GAVNet 06/09/2021 greeneracresvaluenetwork.wordpress.com/2021/06/09/dai…
China’s Hot Summer Is Latest Test of Its Carbon-Neutrality Drive

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#china #ClimateChange #CarbonNeutrality #consequences
Quantum Computing and Reinforcement Learning Are Joining Forces to Make Faster AI

singularityhub.com/2021/03/16/qua…

#QuantumComputing #ReinforcementLearning #ArtificialIntelligence
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Ok. Educational thread. #COVID19 #vaccine #strains #Mutation

First a caveat. Until we have good data most of this thread is theoretical, but to keep you out of suspense, I believe that our current vaccines will protect us from evolving strains of coronavirus.
The reason for this is that the target chosen for these vaccines was its virulence factor, the thing that makes this normally annoying old virus deadly. The capsid spike protein that interacts with our bodies ACE2 receptor.
Viruses need a way to get into cells to infect them. Previous generations had spike proteins that opened doors on tissues of the throat and nose. The ensuing infection and inflammation is the stuffiness that we associate with a cold. You can survive a sore throat.
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"Further validation of the affective bias test for predicting antidepressant and pro-depressant risk: effects of pharmacological and social manipulations in male and female rats" @Dr_Hinch @doctmcgee link.springer.com/article/10.100…
Summary: #pharmacology #affectivebias #depression #animalmodels #affectivestate #malesandfemales #ABT
The need for a reliable and #translational tool measuring emotional behaviours in animals that possessing robust validity is unquestionably important but 1/
but very challenging to achieve. Commonly used assays are generally lacking in at least one aspect of #validity and do not fully translate into #clinical work. In this paper, the affective bias test (ABT) has demonstrated to reliably detect both positive 2/
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