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Daily Tech News Show

Tom Merritt

Technology, News

4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Yesterday we told you about DeepMind's AlphaFold system that uses an attention-based neural network to predict protein folding structure in a matter of days. This avoids needing the huge computing resources to brute-force predictions, such as folding@home or the meticulous and labor intensive use of direct observation both of which take much longer. Today Dr. Kiki is going to help us understand what this advance of neural network training can actually do for us.

Starring Tom Merritt, Sarah Lane, Dr Kiki, Roger Chang, Joe.

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0:00.0	A tech demo shows off the usual tech things.
0:03.7	Then I'm going to jump to a link using the usual tech devices.
0:07.0	We have a pointing device called a mouse.
0:09.0	Doing the usual tech productivity tasks.
0:11.4	Now we're connected audio. You can see my work, you can point at it, and I can see
0:15.7	your face and we can talk. Except it's 1968 and it's going to set the computing agenda for the
0:20.5	next half century, then almost immediately be ignored.
0:24.4	The mother of all demos on NOAA Little More.
0:27.6	Get it wherever you get your podcasts. May I have your attention please you can now book your train tickets on Uber and get
0:40.4	10% back in credits to spend on your next Uber ride.
0:44.3	So you don't have to walk home in the rain again.
0:48.8	Trains, now on Uber. Tees and seas apply.
0:51.5	Check the Uber app.
0:59.7	Coming up on DTNS, what will get from improved protein folding algorithms? New chips from Qualcomm and NVIDIA and more Moon Rocks are on the way.
1:04.7	This is the Daily Tech News for Tuesday, December 1st, 2020, the Canadian National Day of Podcasting.
1:15.0	In Los Angeles, I'm Tom Merritt.
1:16.7	And from Studio Redwood, I'm Sarah Lane.
1:18.9	And on the show's producer, Roger Chain.
1:21.0	Joining us, Dr. Kiki Sanford, host of this week in science back on the show.
1:25.0	Welcome back, Kiki.
1:27.0	Thank you so much, so good to be here.
1:29.4	We have decided to celebrate the Canadian National Day of Podcast Podcasting by letting all of our Canadian
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