Sugoi & Yokunai

I knew it! Nature retracts provocative PD-1 study that tied lung cancer survival to treatment timing. Yet another Chinese paper is retracted. This one fooled a lot of people, including Eric Topol. But it never made sense that 3:00 pm would be the cutoff for efficacy. And the efficacy data for the morning group wasn't as good as previous data. Now we know – it was all bogus. I bed a lot of nursing schedulers are happy about this.

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Medical diagnosis AIs can be tricked into telling whose data trained them.

Here's the paper. If you read the paper, the real danger is nowhere near as bad as the journalist makes it out to be. It's basically a take off on references 5, 6, and 7 in the article, where Carlini et al was able to extract training data from a model. The model was old  (GPT-2) and so it's possible that things have improved. But training data is supposed to be de-identified anyway, so even if you can extract it, it won't tell you much. Unless you have some uniquely identifiable body distinction. But someone can't just take a new chest X-ray or mammogram and expect to confirm membership in the dataset. Doesn't work that way. So this paper has been hyped up. Relax.

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Poll: More than 90% of voters opposing data centers don't live near them. Interesting. If a company wants to build a datacenter in the middle of nowhere, I wouldn't want protestors for Seattle or Portland to come by to raise a ruckus. It doesn't concern them. It's a problem that may have been solved for that locale. The protestors that I've seen tend to be the most indoctrinated and uninformed people who just spew what their high school teacher or TikTok video told them. 

This is funny:

"The cleanest form of AI use is no use," Kaveh Madani, a water scientist and director of the United Nations University Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Canada. "So when you could avoid using AI, don't use it."

Don't use it for simple things. Don't use it for calculations, directions, store hours, recipes or shopping lists, which are all searches people used to do without AI, but now do it with AI and waste power and water, Luccioni said.

"Yeah, it's great. You can generate a chocolate chip cookie recipe with Claude, or you can open a damn book. Like, those still exist. You really don't need Claude." 

And don't say "Thank You" or "Please" to your LLM. They don't care and it just wastes tokens, right?

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SK Hynix targets $29 billion US listing as AI demand surges. The world's chip makers are Micron, SK Hynix and Samsung, and since the latter two are Korean, it's not easy to invest in them as an American. But if SK Hynix can trade on the American market, that would be great. DRAM chips are in demand. Their stocks aren't zooming mainly because the market has apparently already priced that in. But maybe they will zoom. 

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Hospital workers' phones carry deadly superbugs.  Healthcare providers must have the toughest immune systems. 

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Older tech workers are tapping out early. Yep, if you can retire, it's great to do so. The workaday world is crazy. And you can make room for all those young CS majors who need employment.

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Treating autism with Bumetanide: Identification of responders using Q-Finder machine learning algorithm. Bumetanide? That's a strong diuretic. But it also modulates GABA-ergic neurotransmission, so that's why. But there are better drugs that do this, and don't make you pee so much.

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Vibecoding is becoming a deal-breaker test for software acquisitions. That's what they say, but take a look at this: The State
of Startups 2026. Everybody uses LLMs to code. As long as you know what the LLM has done, I say it's fine.

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Chinese universities are cutting language majors to make way for AI. Screw humanities! AI is everything! 🤔

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Is Trump getting retatrutide? So what if he is. The benefits of this medication are such that more people should be getting them.

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Holy crap! Google Poised to Lose Two More Senior AI Staffers to Anthropic. Now Jonas Adler and Alexander Pritzel are leaving. They worked on Gemini. What's going on at Google?

Google settles social medial lawsuit with teen, who also sued Meta. Teen gets money. Google gets to continue doing what it does. Sounds like a win-win, right?

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Tired of Dickovers? Me, too. But I've found that if you install uMatrix in your browser and disable scripting for main sites, you can avoid a lot of these.

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Different LLMs have differing expertise in biological sciences. This may help guide you as to what model to use for a biology type query.

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Seattle is proud that they're smashing records with tax collections this year.  It's unclear how long that might last, however. Meanwhile, Montana cut taxes and saw their revenue double. That's the way to do it.

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