David Li - Economics Students Society of Australia

David Li

Meet AlphaFold: A true artificial intelligence

Import 2022-12-14 05:06

Meet AlphaFold: A true artificial intelligence

The paper (linked at the end of this article) presents an in-depth discussion into AlphaFold 2, an attention-based neural network that solves the protein folding problem. The machine learning and biology related materials will be saved for discussion in paper; this brief introduction is to relate AlphaFold’s importance to

Chile: how free trade debilitated a nation

Chile: how free trade debilitated a nation

“It is a very common clever device that when anyone has attained the summit of greatness, he kicks away the ladder by which he has climbed up, in order to deprive others of the means of climbing up after him. In this lies the secret of the cosmopolitan doctrine of

Why we ought to rethink debt

Why we ought to rethink debt

“It is easier to imagine an end to the world than an end to capitalism” This iconic quote, attributed to philosophers Fredric Jameson and Slavoj Zizek, embodies the essence of the concept “capitalist hegemony”. In this world, one’s common sense is moulded by the prevailing powers within society. This

The Economics of Decriminalising Drugs

The Economics of Decriminalising Drugs

There has been a lack of sound economic analysis utilised by governments regarding drug policies throughout modern history. In its place, rhetoric and populism has enforced a societal norm that exacerbates the harms of drugs. This has encouraged increased punishment to drug-users from both a legal and a cultural perspective,