Drink more coffee. Higher levels of caffeine intake appear to be connected with superior cognitive function among older adults. On it.
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There are three AI bubbles. I'm not sure that they are bubbles. This is the direction we need to go. The question is only whether it can be achieved. This is why I'm invested in nuclear as well. Did you see how these two stocks shot up recently (NuScale (SMR) or NANO Nuclear Energy (NNE))? Wow!
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Scientists Say a Newly Discovered Immune Cell May Drive Inflammation as We Age. Wow, when I took immunology way back when, there were just a handful of known immune cells. Now there over a dozen! The immune system is complex, as it should be.
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The Metaculus Cup is an award to forecasters, and an AI model won eighth place, even beating humans. I can see that. But will it keep winning? Who's going to feed it the right data? And how often? Until I see repeated success, I'm going to call this a one-off.
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Here's a list of imminent layoffs: Washington and Oregon. Since the law says you have to give people a lot of advance notice, it's public knowledge now. There's a lot of people slated to be jobless. It's going to hurt both states, and the new H-1B visa laws are going to trigger a new batch of layoffs, too. Just in time for the holidays.
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What? Google is pinching pennies? What happened? They were supposed to be rich. What does this say about the tech sector? Or is it just Google?
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Join the club. Well, well, now the Kaiser healthcare workers are striking. I guess they were jealous that OHSU, Providence and Legacy workers were getting all the strike action. So why not? Let's all raise hospital expenses and put Oregon's healthcare industry and the region's largest employers out of business. Or make them suitable takeover targets.
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The West Coast Vaccine Alliance announced that anyone can get the vax if they want it. But why would anyone want more mRNA gene therapy injected into them, increasing their risk for myocarditis and sudden death, without any real meaningful benefit from infection with COVID-19? Are the pharmacists going to risk their licenses, because they may not have liability protection. It's not like Oregon has extra money lying around to cover this. It's amazing that some doctors still remain sold on the benefits of the mRNA vax. Get the Novavax vaccine if you must. It's not completely free of side-effects, but at least it's not gene therapy.
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In 2024, Oregon’s Medicaid Insurers Got a 3.4% Rate Bump. Their Costs Jumped 10%. Yeah, who didn't see that coming. More people are going on Medicaid because that's all they can afford. Of course, expenses will increase.
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Gordon’s Fireplace Building is Again Headed for Auction. I'm going to miss that symbol of Portland when it comes down. It so represented what the city has become better than the Elk Statue or Big Pink. The anarchy. The filth. The impotence of law enforcement. The ineptitude of city leadership. All in one ugly building.
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Is it true that ~30% of medical residency slots are filled by international graduates on H-1B visas? That's insane. Why can't we fill those slots with American medical school graduates? This needs to change, and should have been done sooner. Also side note, don't use Grok to fact-check. It wasn't designed for that purpose.
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For computer science, if you just graduate with a degree and nothing else, you’re going to be working at McDonald’s....That’s just a reality; this isn’t an overstatement.
Unbelievable. CS schools really need to change, but I bet the professors don't know how to teach the new stuff.
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LLMs are bad at some simple tasks. Like list comparison. This could be a tokenization problem. Needs further study.
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Your earwax could be the basis for a new class of diagnostic tests. It's a way to get body cells sampled for analysis. Kinda messy, though. Why not stick with blood tests?
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Portland relies on Urban Alchemy for a lot of homeless services, but the company seems to be mismanaged.
San Francisco officials accused the company of having “knowingly overspent” hundreds of thousands on pay bumps last fiscal year, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
Of course, it's the Homeless Industrial Complex. They don't want homelessness to end. It would mean the end of their business model. Mayor Keith Wilson loves them, though. Thinks they're doing a great job.
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Portland ranks 22nd in U.S. for income growth, outpacing national average. It seems to be good news, until you realize that it's because all the hospital employees go on strike for higher wages, and they win. Won't be forever, though.
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