Nature, science, technology, programming, and DIY enthusiast. Biotechnologist and chemist, in the wet lab and at computers. Born AR from IT origins, living in CH for years now. In this site I write about everything that lies within my broad sphere of interests. — Latest stories: AlphaFold | AI art | Photos | Flower photos | For new writers All my stories by topic: (in development at the moment!) Who am I?

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. …

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. ===

PART OF MY SERIES Natural wonders of Switzerland’s canton Vaud

Results from tests devised to compare the power and limitations of these language models that are just an URL away — No wonder I’ve integrated ChatGPT into my daily work and activities a lot. Really a lot. It is extremely helpful to brainstorm, correct or improve texts, do translations, write code and find errors in it, etc. Thanks to its web nature, ChatGPT is always just a URL away, free, with…

Go unleash your creativity! — Exciting news for all creative minds out there! Especially for those who have creativity but it is masked by null skills :-) DALL-E 3 has arrived, and it’s bringing a whole new level of artistic expression to the world of AI-generated art. Here I’ll peek into the latest features and…

For immersive scientific discussions and for education, it will be free to use and without registration, so join the wait list! — Our new website MolecularWebXR is the Metaverse’s ultimate immersive tool for education and peer discussion in chemistry and structural biology. Running on web browsers hence on all modern devices like smartphones, tablets, computers and VR-headsets, MolecularWebXR allows users to interact with each other and with virtual objects seamlessly inside a…

If you read me regularly, and if not you will find this here, you know that I’m always captivated by the promising intersection of technologies. It’s even reflected at the core of what I do as my main job at EPFL and beyond: creating software for various goals in chemical…

Just a provocative preprint title, or a real path to Artificial General Intelligence through language? — Introduction In the (very!) dynamic and rapidly evolving realm of artificial intelligence, the quest for Artificial General Intelligence (AGI for short in the rest of this post) has long been the holy grail of scientists and technologists, and has nourished the imagination of science fiction writers. The search for machines that…