California Keeps Losing Tech Jobs. I suspect the movie business is dwindling, too. If tech really moves out of the Bay Area, to places like Texas, Boston, Puget Sound, or North Carolina, the California will hurt for sure.
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Earth gained a pseudo-moon, which is predicted to hang around until 2083. It's "probably been tagging along for around 60 years" but was just found. Too bad it won't be another visual object in the sky, but if it did, it would probably cause all kinds of gravitational havoc.
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The new iPhone's keyboard is deliberately causing typing errors. Apple needs to fix this. I never liked that users were locked into using the default keyboard.
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As eyes get older, the activity of the ELOVL2 gene weakens. This gene helps produce both very-long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (VLC-PUFAs) and DHA in the retina. Injection of mice with these VLC-PUFAs enhanced their vision. Paper here.
And placement of a microchip in back of the retina can restore usable vision to those with macular degeneration. The procedure was done in the UK.
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Elon Musk threatens to leave Tesla if he doesn't get the enormous pay he demands. He wants up to $40 billion in compensation. That's ridiculous for a company like Tesla, in a world where EV allure is declining.
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Has Amazon lost too many engineers? The way the recent AWS outage unfolded suggests so. The whole AWS system is so complicated and opaquely documented that this doesn't surprise me. I was never certain I was using SageMaker properly. You have to make sure you cross off many things on a checklist before you close out, or you could be running up a huge tab with a hidden endpoint left running on. There are so many names for so many services they offer and you can't tell immediately what does what, and whether it's something worth diving into.
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The world has become much more reliant on fossil carbon (even as its relative share has declined a bit).We're not ready yet to replace petroleum-based fuels. Vaçlav should stop calling it "fossil fuel" because it's not really that anymore.
During the 1970s many people believed that by the year 2000 all electricity would come not just from fission, but from fast breeder reactors, and soon afterwards came the promises of “soft energy” taking over (Smil, 2000).
“Even if we were to replace just 60 percent of today’s fossil fuel consumption, we should be investing about six times more, or about $13 trillion a year, to reach zero carbon by 2050. Making it $15-17 trillion a year (to account for expected cost over-runs) seems hardly excessive, and it takes us, once again, to a grand total of $400-460 trillion by the year 2050, good confirmation of a previously derived value.
Photodynamic therapy is still alive, but this time with LEDs instead of lasers. It works against skin cancers. Since LEDs are easier to work with than lasers, perhaps this might be something that could work with immunotherapy.
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This headline "Student Loan Forgiveness Update: Trump Admin Cancels Debt For Millions" made me think Trump was pulling a Biden on student loans. In actuality, he's just reversing a decision made earlier this year in February to start enrolling and processing income-driven repayment plans. It shouldn't have been stopped, and now it's restarting. This is different from what Biden tried to do.
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OpenAI's agents are now going to recommend people do some shopping. Sounds like I better get some stock in Shopify.
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The graying of hair in the elderly may be a manifestation of a natural process that melanocytes undergo to prevent melanoma genesis. I never looked at it that way, but perhaps we were meant to go gray.
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Oregon tops the nation in prevalence of mental illness of all kinds. 30% of Oregonians are mentally ill in some way. Washington's prevalence is 28%. But it's way too high in all the states. Even in the lowest state, it's around 19%.
Oregon is #4 for substance abuse. District of Columbia is #1 for substance abuse, and it's scary that those people make the laws. No wonder the politicians are crazy. Utah leads in suicidal thoughts but Oregon is #3.
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