Another major company is leaving Oregon – that is Tektronix. And it's now national news that Oregon is committing economic suicide. Here's WWeek, recognizing that it's a big problem for the state.
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Oregon institutes protections for geolocation tracking in teens younger than age 16. Once in a while, Oregon legislators do something beneficial.
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Uruguay scientists have developed a drug (called SANA) that supposedly promotes weight loss without suppressing appetite. It's based on salicylates and creatine. The weight loss was about 3% at two weeks. Not a lot, and I doubt it will outsell the standard GLP-1 receptor agonists.
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Salmon Valley school superintendent in Washington says that federal subsidy cuts will be problematic for the school district. It amazes me how everything seems to be dependent on federal money. This needs to stop. The federal government shouldn't be subsidizing everything in the U.S. Can't the state take care of this?
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Well, the numbers are here at last. And it's devastating. Intel will lay off 15% to 20% of its employees, many of which will be in Oregon. Things are that bad. Gee whiz, can Oregon get some good news for a change?
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Here's an opinion about the AI hype is all about. It's a race to get the $50 trillion prize. Meanwhile young graduates are finding it very difficult to get jobs. This is likely AI related.
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Despicable. Another company claims to fight refractory cancer, prey on hope, and take people's money. And people aren't getting any better. I don't how these people sleep or look at themselves in the mirror. This is why we have clinical trials first.
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A Harvard study showed that women who drank at least one cup of coffee daily aged gracefully and had less dementia. The effect was not seen with decaf coffee – only the real stuff. Remember though, this study was not set out to research the effects of coffee. It was an entirely different study, and so is just a retrospective subgroup analysis, which is only good for generating a hypothesis, and not for making recommendations. Still, drinking coffee is easy to do.
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Nature articles will now make public the initial acceptance letter with request to modify and publish the authors' response. Could be interesting to read. We might get some additional insights.
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Another paper that shows that our brains get soft if we don't exercise them, and use generative AI for cognitive offloading.
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Terence Tao discusses the hardest problems in mathematics and physics in a Lex Fridman interview.
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