While learning about cryptocurrencies, I desperately needed data that I could manipulate myself to do my own plots and analyses. Here I show you how to easily get real-time and historical crypto data right in your web browser with minimal programming skills. Source code, links, and some basic plots and…

Thanks to modern educational content using commodity web-based augmented reality in our moleculARweb site and in Google, students, teachers, and science communicators can now more easily see, grasp, communicate, and interact with the most complex concepts of chemistry and biology. For free, using their smartphones, tablets, and computers, in several languages. — === The new tools presented here involve contributions mainly from Fabio Cortes and other members of the Dal Peraro lab at @EPFL. ===

A selection of photos while walking in natural scenarios. — A cousin of mine is a fan of photos of trails, routes, and ways through natural landscapes. Hence each time I have a nice view of one, I send him photos. …

Crafting for fun, with a purpose, and using simple materials. — I was watering plants here and there in the old house’s garden. I didn’t even remember about their existence, about my times playing to build them. Hence they surprised me. I’m talking about pots, simply pots. 25% of my life ago, I decided to never again buy pots, as most…

WebXR allows novel forms of work and education in which users share the same virtual world. Here are all our prototypes, accessible in devices such as Meta’s $400 Oculus Quest 2. — This article introduces a series of VR software prototypes that we have developed within the scope of what we call the “Useful Metaverse”. That is, VR tools that can truly revolutionize education and work, with a focus on groups of people collaborating together in joint virtual sessions. …

Confident modeling of protein structures, prediction of their interactions with other biomolecules, and even protein design are now at everybody’s reach thanks to the revolution started by Deepmind. — Introduction | Democratizing the use of AlphaFold 2 and new adaptations of it | What’s next | Protein language models | Pre-made databases of structural models built with these modern tools | Unexpected things that AlphaFold 2 seems to be able to do | Further reads on the topic and…

Structure prediction with similar accuracy as AlphaFold but up to 60X faster—and having developed new AI methods along the way. — Two hallmarks of modern biology are (i) the irruption of ML models for predicting protein structures, resulting in a true revolution in the field, and (ii) the fact that this revolution was brought about by research labs from the private sector rather than by academics (luckily, these privates are leaving…