PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)About me — Luciano AbriataBio, articles, freelance work, websites, resources, contact info, and more about me, the person behind the @LucianoSphereFeb 15, 20233Feb 15, 20233
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)Welcome to the LucianoSphere!Nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and at computers. Born AR from IT…Sep 20, 20211Sep 20, 20211
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTowards Data ScienceObtaining historical and real-time crypto data with very simple web programmingWhile learning about cryptocurrencies, I desperately needed data that I could manipulate myself to do my own plots and analyses. Here I…Aug 27, 20215Aug 27, 20215
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inGeek CultureChemistry and Biology Education Using Commodity Web Augmented Reality -in any device!Thanks to modern educational content using commodity web-based augmented reality in our moleculARweb site and in Google, students…Sep 10, 2021Sep 10, 2021
PinnedLucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)Flower-spotting hike up from Montreux + alpine garden + century-old railwayPART OF MY SERIES Natural wonders of Switzerland’s canton VaudJul 11, 20213Jul 11, 20213
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inCantor’s ParadiseWhy Nature Loves HexagonsHoney combs, carbon-based structures, basalt stones, the atomic structure of ice and snowflakes, turtle shells, the basic unit in the eyes…4d ago34d ago3
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTowards Data ScienceA New Method to Detect “Confabulations” Hallucinated by Large Language ModelsBy calculating semantic entropy with a second LLM, we can better flag answers as unreliable due to lack of knowledge5d ago5d ago
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inTechnology HitsResearchers created a protein that responds to… magnetic fieldsA team of researchers from Calico Life Sciences has developed a new protein that responds to, and hence can be controlled by, magnetic…Jun 212Jun 212
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)EzMechanism: A Novel (and Kind of Unique) Tool for Predicting Enzyme Catalytic MechanismsNote for self: see example on the TEM lactamase in Figure 4, and relate to the tolerance to amino acid substitutions in this work:Jun 20Jun 20
LucianoSphere (Luciano Abriata, PhD)inAdvances in biological scienceAlphaFold 3's Advances and Limitations In a NutshellFrom a Month Worth of Tests WorldwideJun 9Jun 9