What Covid Policy Did to Doctors Who Refused to Stay Silent. It's important to always remember this dark period in medicine, when the medical profession chose to relax their standards for what passed as safe practice, and just blindly accept the word of a handful of "authorities" without paying attention to data and seeing inconsistencies in what they were told. Oregon was especially bad, as doctors who resisted the experimental and poorly-tested vaccine had to leave medicine and their practices, unless they complied with the orthodoxy. Shame. This was the start of the massive loss of trust in the medical profession. especially amongst those not easily buying the Democrat propaganda.
Have trouble falling or staying asleep? Try cognitive shuffling. This is akin to counting sheep. When you're anxious or worried, though, this doesn't work. Gotu kola supplements work great for this. A clean, non-lingering soporific that lets you sleep.
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This randomized trial look at vitamin D3 supplementation to see if it improved the clinical course of COVID-19. It took place from December 2020 to July 2022, so during the Delta variant through some of Omicron variant. I don't have access to the full article, but I couldn't see that they checked 25-OH vitamin D levels to see if the vitamin D supplements were actually raising levels to where they needed to be and to assess compliance. This would be necessary. Nonetheless, they found a "nonsignificant trend toward benefit of vitamin D3 on the prevalence of long COVID at 8 weeks".
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Coming after the conclusion of the woke Oscars last night, is news that Apple acquires Final Cut Pro plugin company MotionVFX. It's going to make it easier to produce professional looking videos.
Its plugins are widely used by YouTubers, filmmakers, and broadcast editors looking to add high-end motion graphics and stylized visual effects without building them from scratch.
Among its most popular tools are mFilmLook, which provides cinematic color grading and film emulation effects, and mO2, a powerful plugin that enables the use of 3D models directly inside Final Cut Pro and Apple Motion. MotionVFX also offers Design Studio, a panel extension that allows users to browse and install effects and templates directly within Final Cut Pro.
Soon, who will need Hollywood, right?
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Meta is planning sweeping layoffs as AI costs increase - maybe up to 20% of the company. And yeah, someone found out that Meta really is behind the age-verification efforts. This is what Meta wants:
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Every app on your device gets to query a system-level API that returns your age bracket in real time. This isn't age verification at the point of accessing restricted content. This is a persistent age-broadcasting service baked into the operating system itself, queryable by every installed application.And the group that is advocating for it, the Digital Childhood Alliance, doesn't legally exist. This is really creepy.
Apparently some people think that being able to read a book cover to cover is a superpower. Have things deteriorated that much?
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The latest EVs from China's BYD can get close to full charge in just 12 minutes. But you have to use one of their flash chargers. They're going to install some in Europe. Can you imagine how long they are going to last there? They wouldn't last very long in the Blue cities here. People would strip them for copper or just destroy them for fun.
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I can't believe that this vulnerability was present in Amazon's AWS for so long. Using AWS for MLOps is, to me, unnecessarily complicated, and you can run up enormous server costs if you don't know what you're doing. There's got to be a simpler way.
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This is really sad. Why I may ‘hire’ AI instead of a graduate student. But maybe grad students don't need unhelpful professors. Maybe they can advance with the same AI help that denies them hands-on experience with experienced experts. Or maybe one can get the necessary experience in industry. But academic and the grad student experience is about to change.
I’m not sure where that will leave students who start with no research experience. Personally, I am seriously tempted not to take a chance on a novice for my new project—which means today, I probably wouldn’t recruit my younger self.
Oregon award winners: Worst politician, Worst waste, etc. And no consequences for any of this. Except for citizens, who have to pay more taxes.
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Portland City Council has to hire a Texas firm to teach them how to govern. Because there are so many people in the council that they can't get anything done. Who could have predicted this? Pretty much everybody.
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Education in Oregon is a joke. How many hours is your child in school? It depends on your ZIP code. The difference between the longest and shortest school days is about 20 eight-hour days. Oregon just doesn't take education seriously.
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