Truth: A Love Story | Harvard Magazine
A scientist discovered his own family’s secrets. What followed was a challenging path of learning and insight into family truths that ultimately brought great joy.
Discovery and inhibition of an interspecies gut bacterial pathway for Levodopa metabolism | Science
The efficacy of L-dopa treatment for Parkinson’s disease is hugely variable between individuals, depending on the composition of their microbiota. L-Dopa is decarboxylated into active dopamine, but if the gut microbiota metabolize L-dopa before it crosses the blood-brain barrier, medication is ineffective. Maini Rekdal et al. found that different species of bacterium are involved in L-dopa metabolism.
Applying AutoML to Transformer Architectures | Google AI Blog
Since it was introduced a few years ago, Google’s Transformer architecture has been applied to challenges ranging from generating fantasy fiction to writing musical harmonies. After conducting an evolution-based neural architecture search (NAS), using translation as a proxy for sequence tasks in general, researchers found the Evolved Transformer, a new Transformer architecture that demonstrates promising improvements on a variety of natural language processing (NLP) tasks.