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Cascade Emission

7/15/2025

Cascade emission is a quantum optical process where an excited atom or molecule releases energy by emitting two photons sequentially rather than a single photon. This phenomenon has become…

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Further Reflections on Myelin Study

7/15/2025

A recent paper proposes something quite different from the conventional understanding of how neural networks operate. The researchers suggest that myelin sheaths—the fatty insulation around nerve…

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Ship of Harkinian

7/14/2025

The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is widely considered one of the greatest video games ever made, but playing it today can feel constrained by the technical limitations of 1998 hardware. Enter Ship…

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What is the Myelin Sheath?

7/13/2025

Deep within your brain and throughout your nervous system, there's a remarkable biological structure that acts like the insulation around electrical wires. This structure, called the myelin sheath, is…

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Myelin Sheath ORCH Study

7/13/2025

Update on Penrose's ORCH Theory A new study from Shanghai University has added compelling evidence to this controversial discussion, suggesting that quantum entanglement—the "spooky action at a…

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Model Context Protocol (MCP)

5/27/2025

Understanding the Model Context Protocol (MCP): The HTTP for AI Systems The AI development landscape is undergoing rapid transformation, with language models increasingly needing to interact with…

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Britain's Spitfire Plane

5/27/2025

The Supermarine Spitfire: Britain's Legendary Fighter and Its Role in Shaping WWII Air Power Few aircraft in history have captured the imagination quite like the Supermarine Spitfire. With its…

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John Winthrop: Early Puritan

5/4/2025

The Puritan Leader Who Shaped Early America Early Life and Background John Winthrop (1588–1649) was born into privilege in Suffolk, England, where his family held considerable landholdings and social…

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British Calvinism

5/3/2025

What Is Calvinism? Calvinism emerged as a major branch of Protestant Christianity during the tumultuous religious upheaval of the 16th-century Reformation. Founded on the theological framework…

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Detached Observer

4/30/2025

Jurassic Park and the Ethics of Scientific Innovation I am currently reading Jurassic Park, and Michael Crichton raises important questions about the foundations of biomedicine. He argues that it’s…

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Non-Locality in Quantum Entanglement

4/17/2025

A common way to describe quantum entanglement involves two quantum systems: Alice has one, and Bob has another. If Alice performs a measurement on her system, Bob’s system instantaneously assumes a…

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A Literary Analysis of Tupac Shakur

4/14/2025

The Poetic Genius of Tupac Shakur Tupac Shakur created 10 studio albums in total (he actually recorded something like 700+ songs). The albums he produced when he was alive seemed to each fit a general…

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Graph Neural Networks (GNNs)

4/9/2025

Revolutionizing AI for Molecular Structures Imagine trying to teach a computer to understand a molecule. You could describe it as a collection of atoms with specific properties, but that misses…

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RDKit.js

4/5/2025

https://www.rdkitjs.com/ RDKit.js, the official JavaScript distribution of cheminformatics functionality from the RDKit - a C++ library for cheminformatics. If you go that URL, theres a playground…

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AI and ML's Roles in Drug Discovery

4/4/2025

The AI Revolution in Drug Discovery: From Molecules to Medicine The traditional drug discovery process is notoriously expensive, time-consuming, and inefficient. It typically takes 10-15 years and…

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Pharmacokinetics

4/3/2025

Understanding Pharmacokinetics: The Journey of Drugs Through the Body When you take a pill, have you ever wondered what happens after you swallow it? How does it get from your stomach to where it…

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Proteomics / Genomics

4/3/2025

Proteomics and Genomics: Decoding Life's Information Systems Imagine your body as the most sophisticated computer system ever created. The hardware and operating system of this computer would be your…

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High-Throughput Screening (HTS)

3/31/2025

How AI is Revolutionizing High-Throughput Screening in Drug Discovery High-Throughput Screening (HTS) is an automated, large-scale method used in drug discovery to quickly test thousands to millions…

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Target Identification in Drug Discovery

3/31/2025

How AI and Quantum Computing Are Revolutionizing Target Identification in Drug Discovery Introduction The drug discovery process is a complex, time-consuming, and expensive endeavor, often taking over…

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Structure-Activity Relationships

3/31/2025

The Code That Governs Drug Discovery In drug discovery, the relationship between a molecule's structure and its biological activity operates much like a programming API - specific inputs produce…

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Breakdown of a Quantum State Equation

3/30/2025

A quantum state equation is any mathematical expression that describes the state of a quantum system, and then also how that state evolves under operations (e.g., unitary transformations, measurements…

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Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG)

3/30/2025

Retrieval-Augmented Generation (RAG) is a way to make AI text generation more accurate by combining a retrieval system that looks up information from external sources with a language model that…

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Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT)

3/28/2025

The Mathematical Engine of Quantum Algorithms The Quantum Fourier Transform (QFT) is one of the most important tools in quantum computing, serving as the backbone for landmark algorithms like Shor's…

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Quantum Consciousness and Non-Locality

3/27/2025

Could the Mind Transcend the Brain? The idea that human consciousness might not be confined to the physical brain has long lingered at the edges of science and philosophy. A provocative hypothesis…

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Shor's Algorithm

3/27/2025

The Quantum Threat to Cryptography and the Future of Security In 1994, mathematician Peter Shor unveiled an algorithm that would send shockwaves through the world of cryptography. Shor's algorithm—a…

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Quantum Error Correction

3/25/2025

Protecting Quantum Computers from Errors Quantum computers have the potential to solve problems that are impossible for classical machines, but they face a major hurdle: errors. Qubits, the building…

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NotebookLM AI Research Tool

3/7/2025

What is NotebookLM? NotebookLM is a free tool created by Google described as: I think you may need a google account, but otherwise I have found all the features to be free. How does it work? You can…

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Issues with Gatsby

3/6/2025

The Perils of Gatsby MDX Setup I spent sometime trying to get Gatsby set up here on this blog, and had a few problems getting Gatsby to work. I wanted to use MDX files for my posts, which from what i…

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