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Vittorio — (∞/acc)
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28yo PhD student on a quest for truth & understanding — I want to accelerate everything
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Vittorio — (∞/acc)
03-27
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ok so the rosie story was even more insane than it looked > be the australian tech guy who made a cancer vaccine for his dog > first try: genetic algorithms to design a new drug from scratch > works in simulation but would take years to test > second try: screen 1 million existing compounds against the mutation > two weeks of computation. find a perfect match > it's patented > patent holder says no to compassionate use > what_did_you_expect.jpg > spend two weeks just being with the dog > 2am idea: what if i just make a vaccine > chatgpt for pipeline, gemini for construct, grok for validation > 300 gigabytes of raw sequencing data to half a page of vaccine construct > university ethics approval would take until mid-2026 > dog doesn't have that long > panik > canine cancer expert connects him to a lab in queensland with existing approval > drive 14 hours to get there > inject > three weeks later the tumors swell. immune system swarming > six weeks later shrinking > two months later legs returning to normal > one mass doesn't respond > sequence it again > different cancer. the vaccine worked. the body grew a new tumor he's now building a company so every dog owner can do this he had the technology the whole time. he spent 18 months fighting for permission to use it twitter.com/IterIntellectus/st...
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Vittorio — (∞/acc)
03-15
“it’s trivially easy to make an mRNA vaccine to cure cancer” followed by “but we’re still extremely far from proving it works” is not the flex you think it is but also the most accidentally honest summary of everything wrong with modern science i’ve ever read. the science works, the institution doesn’t. and the institution will let you die on a waiting list before it admits that a guy with chatgpt and $3,000 just did what they need 15 years, $2 billion, and six committees to approve. academia has become a parking lot for bureaucrats who gatekeep cures and progress because their tenure depends on it. the biggest medical advances in history didn’t have an IRB protocol. medical breakthroughs happen because someone just did the thing. twitter.com/IterIntellectus/st...
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