mriet
Joined 5 years ago
Joined 5 years ago
Interesting, imho, more because who he is, and Spain's current role, than the actual content. Also, targeted at.. the US? Western Europe, I guess?
Note to the OP: specify a focus please? short, long, mega-long read and bacterial, human, small plant or large plant genome? Alignment heuristics and performance differ significantly across those axes.
Who the hell is going to use it then? You certainly won't, because you're dependent on AI.
That being said, this is insane.
Maintaining your social network is a skill, just like being able to swim, doing math, being able to hold a good conversation, being able to code or cook or do your taxes.
The "promise" and "illusion" of silicon valley is that all problems (including and maybe even especially social ones) can be solved with technology. This is not true.
Having to use your brain to think about things is definitely painful. It also has incredibly good long-term effects -- and also negative short-term effects because it costs energy. It's similar to eating well, regularly exercising and other aspects of taking care of yourself.
Making sure you can remember to think about other people is not a problem -- it's a REALLY valuable skill that is gradually disappearing.
Basically, it went up for Romania because they got access to the EU market (in terms of both exports and remittances) starting in 2007 and that helped, _despite_ everything else that went on. So.. kind of a win for Romania and the EU, I guess.