Erik Poppleton
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Erik Poppleton
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Postdoc working on RNA Nanotech & MD simulations @uniheidelberg.bsky.social & MPIP. GROMACS wrangler, oxDNA developer, @molpigs.bsky.social podcast host, and all around weird lil guy.

Has been known to post about music and neat bugs found in the woods.
No nonononononono! If you reach g you’ve probably made a terrible mistake imho
November 27, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Hmmm thanks! This makes things not look so bad for robotaxis, if they’re at 44% with a smaller fleet than ridehail (as the original article points out, a small fleet can lead to increased pickup distances). But they’re not showing that they can be significantly better, at the moment.
November 19, 2025 at 7:38 PM
How does that compare to the deadheading rates for Uber/Lyft/traditional taxis?
November 19, 2025 at 7:27 PM
I really wish there was some sort of easy, (probably paid) way to host your own feed within Bluesky. As far as I can tell, setting up your own firehose consumer and feed builder is minimum $20/month, but for that much you can make 1 feed or 5, so there’s an economy of scale to be had.
November 15, 2025 at 9:58 PM
I gotta say, you have three genres of posts, all of them are aspirational.
November 15, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Remember to twist your head to the right! I hear that’s good for range.
November 8, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Do you know if any of the results from this have ever been published? The video on the procedures was cool, but it didn’t actually explain much of what they saw in Will’s throat that surprised them so.
November 7, 2025 at 11:51 PM
(Obviously neither of these ended up being the case)
Also there weren’t as many high-cost “I Win” cards. You couldn’t just use Dream Halls to play Enter the Infinite and then goldfish your opponent.
November 4, 2025 at 9:28 PM
I love the concept of DIY feeds, but we need tools for (paid) feed building because everybody setting up their own hosting is expensive and difficult.

A lot of scientists came here, but they check it less than old Twitter.

Blocking is bad for individuals, but is overall healthy for the network.
November 3, 2025 at 10:35 PM
The last season had a lot of problems, which I largely attribute to compressed pacing and the showrunners knowing how to write characters, not worlds.

That being said, S8E2 was one of the best episodes of character-driven television I’ve ever seen.
November 2, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Tools:
The RNA helix was generated using oxView (oxview.org), a oxDNA viewer and structure editor.

QRNA (github.com/sunandanmukherjee/QRNAS) for relaxation, specifically of the backbones.

All-atom forcefield OL3 (kfc.upol.cz/ff_ol/index.php), currently the best out-of-the-box RNA forcefield.
oxView
oxview.org
October 28, 2025 at 10:21 AM
They can be re-purposed for research usage, they’re the same kind of GPUs used in things like weather prediction, drug design, and data analysis. But that requires the capital to buy up the hardware when the AI companies fall apart, which research institutes are currently struggling with.
October 8, 2025 at 4:10 PM