Signatures of a liquid–liquid transition in an ab initio deep neural network model for water | PNAS
https://www.pnas.org/content/early/2020/10/01/2015440117

PNAS

Signatures of a liquid–liquid transition in an ab initio deep neural network model for water

Water is central across much of the physical and biological sciences and exhibits physical properties that are qualitatively distinct from those of most other liquids. Understanding the microscopic basis of water’s peculiar properties remains an active area…

What a boring Friday. I started to experiment on a plastic ring to find out the probabilities of it standing on the edges when dropped from heights. The diameter of this ring is much larger than its width (diameter/width ~ 2). In the beginning, the result was trivial. Then the results started to look weird to me. The probability of it standing on its edges is higher than falling flat down.
Is this an angular momentum problem?
(Why didn't I continue with the experiment? I stepped on it and it shattered.......)

https://greenelab.github.io/scihub-manuscript/v/8fcd0cd665f6fb5f39bed7e26b940aa27d4770ba/

I am a lit bit scared whenever I think about how it accesses the papers. It is a black box and we have no idea if scihub is doing this in a way that is accepted by every researcher.
On the other hand, it is not easy to live without scihub. There are legal alternatives like unpaywall and kopernio but they are way behind the game.
What shall we do? Require the author of scihub to open source the code? Continue using a black box that may hurt other people? I don't know.

greenelab.github.io

Sci-Hub provides access to nearly all scholarly literature

Hypergraph is a decentralized tool to help researchers manage their work. Everything in your research, from notes to data to publications to proposals , is linked together for better discovery and reproducibility.

https://www.libscie.org/

hypergraph is out of alpha.

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/16047306/how-is-docker-different-from-a-virtual-machine/36368012#36368012

"Docker for Mac uses https://github.com/moby/hyperkit to emulate the hypervisor capabilities and Hyperkit uses hypervisor.framework in its core. Hypervisor.framework is Mac's native hypervisor solution. Hyperkit also uses VPNKit and DataKit to namespace network and filesystem respectively."

hmmm I guess this is why docker on mac uses a lot of resources compared to its linux version

Stack Overflow

How is Docker different from a virtual machine?

I keep rereading the Docker documentation to try to understand the difference between Docker and a full VM. How does it manage to provide a full filesystem, isolated networking environment, etc. wi...

TuSimple Hires Former FMCSA Official Jim Mullen
https://www.ttnews.com/articles/tusimple-hires-former-fmcsa-official-jim-mullen

Transport Topics

TuSimple Hires Former FMCSA Official Jim Mullen

Jim Mullen, former acting administrator of the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, has taken a position at TuSimple, a company that specializes in autonomous driving technology for trucks.

Gitter is joining Element
https://element.io/blog/gitter-is-joining-element/

Element Blog

Gitter is joining Element

When GitLab proposed that Gitter could be stronger as part of the Matrix network, we knew we couldn’t miss the chance!

Synopsis: No Sterile Neutrinos from Eight Years of IceCube
http://link.aps.org/doi/10.1103/Physics.13.s126

Physics

No Sterile Neutrinos from Eight Years of IceCube

An analysis of more than 300,000 muon neutrino detections provides no evidence of sterile neutrinos—a finding at odds with other experiments.

Disney will lay off 28,000 theme park workers as the pandemic continues to ravage its business (DIS)
https://www.businessinsider.com/disney-layoffs-theme-parks-disneyland-disneyworld-2020-9

Business Insider

Disney will lay off 28,000 workers as the pandemic continues to ravage its theme park business

Disney will lay off 28,000 theme park workers as Disneyland in California remains closed, and other parks open with limited capacity during the pandemic.

JupyterCon 2020 - Conference Schedule
https://cfp.jupytercon.com/2020/schedule/tutorial-sessions/

Maternal microbes support fetal brain wiring
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02657-y

Nature

Maternal microbes support fetal brain wiring

Metabolites made by bacteria signal to the developing mouse brain.

OpenAI Licenses GPT-3 Technology to Microsoft
https://openai.com/blog/openai-licenses-gpt-3-technology-to-microsoft/

Openai

OpenAI licenses GPT-3 technology to Microsoft

OpenAI has agreed to license GPT-3 to Microsoft for their own products and services.

Gangster capitalism and the American theft of Chinese innovation – TechCrunch
https://techcrunch.com/2020/09/20/gangster-capitalism-and-the-american-theft-of-chinese-innovation/

Nature Index’s top five science cities, by the numbers
https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02576-y

Nature

Nature Index’s top five science cities, by the numbers

Sizing up the success of the world’s science hotspots.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.12505

Very interesting research on voting mechanism. They built a theory to understand how the freemason member selection procedures shape the community. The Freemason only integrates a member if the member is accepted by all of the current members.

Topology of Deep Neural Networks
http://jmlr.org/papers/v21/20-345.html