Nobel prize winner John Jumper jumped from Google to Anthropic. That's the second person to leave after Noam Shazeer. What's going on at Google? It seemed like they had gotten back their mojo.
Here's more on that FDA-approved sunscreen ingredient, bemotrizinol. Since reading about sunscreens as a result of this, I am truly surprised that the FDA has allowed the endocrine disrupter, homosalate, to be included in sunscreen ingredients without a warning. Women with a history of breast cancer might want to avoid using products that contain this ingredient, for example.
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Doctordle is a wordle like game where you have six chances to guess the current diagnosis in a clinical vignette, where clues are revealed little-by-little. This might be a way to test some of the medical AI tools.
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Wet coffee grounds turned into high-grade solid fuel in just 90 seconds. It would be nice to be able to turn used coffee ground into a solid fuel source. You have to expend energy and expense to do this, so really the overall savings are questionable.
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A Trillion Dollars Isn’t Worth It If You Have to Be Elon Musk. Very true. Even the lives of many billionaires isn't worth it. Shrewd investing can make you a multi-millionaire. But to be a billionaire requires owning your own business and the stresses that go along with it. You must tolerate risk and put in considerable personal sacrifice and effort to achieve success, which not everyone achieves. Musk has no real family life in the conventional sense, and must take drugs to keep himself going. The title of the article should be "if you have to live like Elon Musk". The author of the article gets some things wrong. Musk does not "actively keep other people in poverty". And like so many people who don't know some of the wasteful uses USAID money was spend on. It's been said the foreign aid is "money going from poor people in rich countries to rich people in poor countries". The USAID was a jobs program for activists, with only a fraction going to fight poverty. I suspect that one of the reasons that protests have been fizzling is that the money supply is running dry.
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Why people might ditch their smartwatches for something simpler. I think the real reason is that they're tired of having to charge their watches so frequenly, like a phone. A watch should just work.
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Hospitals that took on Medicaid are now suffering for it. Remember when states were pressured to take on Medicaid patients? Many saw the Medicaid expansion for what it was. But Obama wanted it, and it was eventually going to be the only way illegal aliens could get medical care. And it only worked with massive federal support. Now, states like Oregon are suffering because that federal aid is being withdrawn because it's unsustainable. It may be painful, but it's the only way to compel Democrat states to change their behavior.
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Of course. Putin is into the longevity craze. Why wouldn't he? And he's using his daughter to do the science. The author hopes that some good science will come out of it, but I think that's very unlikely.
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This is incredible. Exosome therapy to treat burns is the way to go! Even better than spray on skin. Here's the doctor who pioneered this technology. What an amazing result.
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What a waste. Gangsta AI will submit queries to 9 LLMs to increase the likelihood of getting the answer you're looking for. But odds are that you don't really need to query that many LLMs at once. It's a big waste of tokens, and in light of the backlash against datacenters and the desire for energy conservation, is this really wise? Concern has even been raised that when healthcare really implements generative AI full scale, the effects on energy consumption might not be sustainable.
We've made inference into a commodity when it actually isn't. The cost is hidden, but it's there. Nothing is free.
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Lars Larson makes a good point. Law-abiding citizens have to observe burn bans, but law enforcement happily ignores the homeless. It's like during the coronavirus epidemic – we had to wear masks and stay home, and six feet apart, etc. The homeless were exempt. They can do what they want, wherever and whenever they want.
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Multnomah County – national laughingstock. Over woke policies. Nobody takes Oregon or Portland seriously anymore. They're a punchline.
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Gabe Newell is leaving Washington for Florida. Mayor Wilson says "Buh-bye".
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