Sharper MRI scans may be on horizon thanks to new physics-based model. This is good, as it might decrease magnetic fields strength requirements.
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Two related articles: Why top firms paradoxically fire good workers and Why one of the nation’s most prosperous industries is shedding jobs. It's not just AI. It's apparently some power dynamic to get the ones who remain to accept lower-paying jobs.
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Chronic lymphocytic leukemia is the most common leukemia diagnosed. One of the things that oncologists will do is check to see if there is evidence of mutations in the immunoglobulin heavy chain variable region. You want them mutated, because unmutated IgHV has a worse prognosis, as they are not as likely to have come from the more mature germinal B centers, but rather from naïve B cells.
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CRISPR breakthrough reverses chemotherapy resistance in lung cancer. CRISPR was used to disable the NRF2 gene. Paper here.
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Dang. Tirzepatide quashes appetite only temporarily. After several months, you'll want to start eating stuff again.
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Engineers made the first fully synthetic brain tissue model. Well this is how it starts, doesn't it?
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Gemini 3 came out today. Google wants to turn it into your 'thought partner'. Uh, no thanks.
I wondered what was happening with Suisun City and California Forever. Despite the billionaires being involved, there was still not enough money to realize the dream. It's still a wasteland. Don't build something like this in California. It's not the state you thought it was.
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Google CEO Sundar Pichai sums up my AI anxiety perfectly.
Speaking exclusively to the BBC at Google’s California headquarters, Pichai acknowledged that while AI investment growth is at an “extraordinary moment,” the industry can “overshoot” in investment cycles, as we’re seeing now. He drew comparisons to the late 1990s Internet boom, which saw early Internet company valuations surge before collapsing in 2000, leading to bankruptcies and job losses.
“We can look back at the Internet right now. There was clearly a lot of excess investment, but none of us would question whether the Internet was profound,” Pichai said. “I expect AI to be the same. So I think it’s both rational and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this.”
Be Careful What You Tell Your AI Chatbot. A chatbot is not your best friend that you can confide all your secrets. And you might indirectly give away more than you might think. Remember, these things are smart.
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RSL: Really Simple Licensing. This is meant to be a new licensing standard designed for the AI era. Where you might get licensing fees for AI training on your content. Let's see it in practice.
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An injectable antenna could safely power deep-tissue medical implants. Kind of like using a Qi charger. This could solve a big problem.
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The earth tilted 31.5° in less than 20 years. I sure didn't notice. I can't believe that it's just because of pumping groundwater. I think it's probably something else.
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Oregon has a shortage of dentists willing to help low-income kids. The article attributes this to low reimbursement, but the question really is why reimbursement was reduced? It's because money needs to go to support non-citizens and the growing and endless number of homeless.
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Now the NGOs who want to get in on the Homeless Industrial Complex business model now find themselves at a conflict between federal and state laws. Instead of getting real jobs, some folks get grant money to set up an NGO that pays them a salary. They were probably hoping to get both federal and state money. But that's no longer possible.
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Wells Fargo is laying off 444 more people. Just in time for the holidays. Not that there's ever a good time to get this news.
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Hawaii small businesses struggle as costs and minimum wage rise. Hawaii learns the painful lesson that you can't just legislate wealth. Think about it. Minimum wage has gone up in all the West Coast states. Does anyone feel rich? Comfortable? Stable? All people do is complain about how prices keep going up. Think there might be a connection?
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Of course, Oregon could have made changes that would make it more business-friendly and raise the wealth of the entire state. It's way too late for that now.Oregonians could be looking at slower court systems, crowded prisons, fewer resources for state law enforcement investigations and decreased local grant funding for anti-theft programs under the proposed cuts public safety agencies put forward.Charging people with crimes and bringing them into prisons or the court system could also become more difficult with less public access at the Oregon Judicial Department. Staff for the department say that a $35 million dollar cut or 5% reduction in funding could reduce the courts’ ability to respond to rising caseloads and implement court security projects.
The state’s human services department is no stranger to cuts from federal uncertainty, and it’s already staring down roughly $500 million in losses every two years under new regulations from the GOP tax and spending law meant to reduce payment errors for the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, or SNAP.
A 5% cut at the agency would amount to $372 million mainly through workforce reductions and paying providers and contractors less. It could result in the most vulnerable residents of the state, including children and foster families, receiving even fewer benefits.
One program on the chopping block is the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families UN program, which provides family coaching, engagement and cash assistance to families with little to no income. The proposed reductions would see the loss of benefits for about 3,200 2-parent families