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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats

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evolarjun · 1790192734 · focus · HN ↗
It is odd (or maybe not) that they decided to publish a marketing whitepaper rather than a more traditional journal submission + preprint. The work does appear to be sufficient for a publication, though there's a good chance a reviewer will rip into them for some of the assertions they make, but given the topic I'm sure the paper will be accepted regardless.
The market for entry-level programmers has already declined, but at least they were somewhat in demand and made reasonable salaries. Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?
1. fooker · 1790198998 · focus · HN ↗
  > Now what happens to post-docs who already make almost nothing and often get treated like crap?
  This sort of discoveries are what gets postdocs funded lmao.
  Every new idea like this creates several years worth of highly specialized work to test out derivative ideas, productizing it, and connecting dots to existing work.

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