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File this under mad genius:
Aristo @aristomarinetti · September 2, 2026 ↗The same person invented Aspirin and heroin 11 days apart .The German chemist Felix Hoffmann (1868–1946) famously synthesized two drugs: aspirin, one of the most widely beneficial drugs ever, and heroin, one of the most harmful of illegal substances. These two drugs represent the efforts of late-19th-century chemists to create new substances that could be used as medicines, not just to isolate active ingredients from natural products or to imitate them.
One approach toward this end was to modify known physiologically active substances; another was to perform chemical operations on one or more of the myriad organic compounds created as products or by-products of the synthetic dye industry, which had developed in the 19th century and was particularly strong in Germany.
And people say LLMs are useless:
Ethan Mollick @emollick · May 12, 2023 ↗Digital humanities is about to be wild. I pasted in the Catalog of Ships from the Iliad, and asked GPT with Code Interpreter to map the origins of the Greeks. With hiccups, it extracted solid information from the text, found modern locations & started building an interactive mapBeen testing flash and it seems very promising:
Demis Hassabis @demishassabis · September 2, 2026 ↗Introducing Gemini 3.8 Flash, another upgrade in under a month! And the new 3.8 Flash Cyber pushes the frontier of cyber defense. Relentless progress 🚀 More on the models & our cyber security work in the blog - happy building! https://t.co/C5h14qANIVThe scale of China, no matter how much you read, continues to astound me:
Kyle Chan @kyleichan · September 3, 2026 ↗This is quite stunning. China’s vast electric vehicle fleet can be flexed during an oil supply shock and offset the equivalent of the UK’s entire oil consumption.