Rochus

So what? The DNA only codes for the RNA and amino acid sequence. Structure determination is yet another topic. When we determine the protein structure we already know the sequence. Neither DeepMind ha…

It's a step forward for sure, but structures change over time to perform their function. The method described here only returns a static structure. Much more research and development is needed to…

What for?

This is about proteins, not DNA.

> What are the immediate real-world applications of this? A protein is actually a linear sequence of amino acids, but in a cell this sequence has a three-dimensional arrangement like a clew of th…

Great. So then farewell CARA ( http://cara.nmr.ch/doku.php ), we had a good time.

This is a fake story which was posted also on Reddit some days ago (see https://old.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/k0tbcc/we_rewr... )…

No. You are. If you have really read the referenced article you must have noticed that its title is "Is Switzerland better than Silicon Valley for software developers?" (which has a rather d…

> is most certainly So you're just assuming.

You didn't read the article, did you? The original title is " Is Switzerland better than Silicon Valley for software developers? " and it is about the Swiss tech scene and the demand an…

No, it's about whether Switzerland is "Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges". Maybe you know that life science is one of the big computer, software and int…

For the sceptics: do you really think, companies like Roche, Novartis, ABB, Schindler, Logitech, Sonova, Ypsomed, and others don't use or develop cutting edge technology? As you can see Switzerla…

Well, drive half an hour by car from southern Switzerland to Italy and you will notice that the road will be lined with garbage heaps on both sides. There are definitely some advantages if people are …

> Swiss world of rules makes the northern Germany feel as flexible as a South American country That is quite unworldly. I worked on large projects both in Switzerland and in Germany. These are tota…

He made his PhD at Stanford in the nineties and had a company with Bak and others in Palo Alto and still lives there. So no, I don't think that was the reason. And apparently Google values its Zu…

And you really don't think pharma qualifies as high-tech? Check e.g. for the OECD definition.

> and working at any of them will teach how it feels like working on a place where software development is a cost center, not the business that they care to sell. And have you worked for them? I …

Not sure what you mean, but see e.g. https://www.technopark.ch/ or https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff.html , or e.g. https://w…

For the sceptics: Nestlé, Roche, Novartis, BBC (now ABB), but also Swatch, Syngenta, Schindler, Logitech, Sonova, Ypsomed, etc. just to name a few.

" In God we trust, all others must bring data. " (Edward Deming) See https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2019.pdf , https://ethz.ch&#…

Just came accross the 2019 Global Innovation Index report: https://www.wipo.int/edocs/pubdocs/en/wipo_pub_gii_2019.pdf The ranking on page xxxiv says: 1. Switzerland 2…

> he didn't experience cutting edge technology in switzerland What ever that is supposed to mean; maybe after looking a couple of days with a very narrow focus. > The swiss are not reall…

> they focus on small enterprises and medium sized businesses Some of the largest companies have emerged in Switzerland.

See e.g. https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff.html , https://ethz.ch/en/industry/entrepreneurs/spinoff/uebersicht... , o…

Sure, ETH is at the top on university world ranking and there is a long history of innovations and nobel price laureats.

>> Not much for developers who are looking for interesting challenges .. From a Swiss person This is simply not true. I'm Swiss and working as a developer and consultant in Switzerland si…

CrossLine uses the Sqlite backend directly with a binary Json like protocol for this purpose, see https://github.com/rochus-keller/crossline/ and https://github.c…

I will take a look at it anyway. Using C++ to implement a DAW is a very good idea IMHO. Audacity is a mastering tool, not a DAW. I'm actually a musician myself but don't use Linux yet for mu…

Never heard of Guix, but it's interesting to read what tools they used to produce the song on Linux. Ardour looks pretty impressive.

That vegans - in the comparison to a conventional nutrition - take less of certain nutrients without food addition, is well-known. One can therefore ask why such a study is necessary. Possibly the cha…