Links: Week of 15 Mar 2026

The first two stories this week are mindblowing. Huge if true, as they say.

1. Australian Tech Founder Uses ChatGPT and AlphaFold to Design Dog Cancer Vaccine — Tumours Shrink by 75%. Originally seen here and video here:

   A Sydney data engineer with no background in biology has used ChatGPT and AlphaFold to design what researchers are calling the world's first personalised mRNA cancer vaccine for a dog, and the results have stunned the scientists who helped make it.

2. A Fly Has Been Uploaded:

   In 2024, the entire neuronal diagram of the fruit-fly brain–some 140,000 neurons and 50 million connections–was mapped. Later research showed that the map could be used to predict behavior. Now, Eon Systems a firm with some of the scientists involved in the fruit-fly research and with the goal of uploading a human brain has announced that they uploaded the fruit fly brain to a digital environment.

   The digital fly appears to behave in the digital environment in reasonably fly like ways–this is not a simulation, the fly’s “sensors” are being activated by the digital environment and the neurons are responding.

3. Some more AI tutorials. So many tutorials, so little time.

4. BO

   Brooks Otterlake@i_zzzzzz · Mar 13

   Japanese society is so civilized that the fires simply drive themselves to the fire station

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