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Should You Track Sleep?

Tracking certain things makes sense, if you go for that sort of thing. Tracking step count is hard without a device. No one’s going to count every step they take in their head. You’d quickly go mad doing that. Same with pulse rate and heart rate variability—you could count the …

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Are Cleansing Conditioners Bad For Your Hair?

It’s been a bad few months for cleansing conditioners—specifically Devacurl’s. It started back in August when Stephanie Mero, a Florida-based hairstylist, created a private Facebook support group for those who believe they’d experienced hair loss after using Devacurl products. “I work day and night on this, investigating any patterns that …

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Salesforce’s ProGen trained on 280 million amino acid sequences to learn to generate proteins

This week, a team of scientists at Salesforce published a study detailing an AI system — ProGen — they say is capable of generating proteins in a “controllable fashion,” such that it could unlock new approaches to protein engineering. If their claims pan out, it could lay the groundwork for …

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