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December 1, 2020
Tuesday
Trump's a Laffer
Disputing Trump, Barr says no widespread election fraud (apnews.com)
¶If DOJ had found any evidence, you better believe Barr would have paraded it across all media. Trump’s continued insistence that the evidence is out there - and so much of it! - has become comical.
¶Trump doesn’t realize he’s on a Laffer curve with respect to his continued insistence that he won the election due to widespread voter fraud. And he’s past the apex (way past it, in my mind) - he thinks he’s garnering more respect from his base by continuing the act, but he’s actually losing it with each tweet and temper tantrum.
‘It will change everything’: DeepMind’s AI makes gigantic leap in solving protein structures (nature.com)
¶This is really cool…and exciting. Combining this huge advance in protein structure prediction with the development and deployment of mRNA vaccines, 2020 will eventually be viewed as the starting point of multiple revolutions in biology and medicine. Exciting times for sure.
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