Sugoi & Yokunai

WiFi signals can identify you with near-perfect accuracy. I posted something about this before. You’re basically walking around in a radar field, and sensors can detect the pattern from the way things bounce off you. If you're really that nervous you could get EMF blocking clothing from Faraday Clothing.

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WSJ has an article on hiking leg enhancers that let you e-hike, as they call it. Still has kinks to work out, but it may come in handy some day. And when the price comes down.

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The Replacements: How US Helps Foreign Workers Take American Jobs. Yeah, college kids have a bigger threat than AI. Unlike AI, foreign workers are not force-multipliers.

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Looks like a LOT of people fled Democrat states last year. Yup. As Democrats tried to reinforce their anti-Trump governments, people voted with their feet.

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Wearing EEG electrodes can be a problem due to hair. But a new thermoreversible biogel may help.

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Psilocybin cuts nerve pain for weeks and boosts gabapentin efficacy in mice. Neuropathic pain is one of the toughest pain types to alleviate. Medicines that lessen its severity often make you sleepy. It really would be nice to have something that really works. Besides suzetrigine.

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This is a great take on what Late Night shows have become over the years. Peter Girnus posts have been showing up a lot lately as more people discover his unique style.

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Nearly every other password can be cracked in under a minute, and three out of five take less than an hour. Computing power has increased so much recently. For financial stuff, you absolutely really need 2-factor authentication.

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Did amphetamines help Erdős? I'm sure they did. Look at his productivity boost right after 1970 when he first started taking them. Then you can see where he began to experience tachyphylaxis. Happens all the time.

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Micropublishing is a place to publish biology research findings that are too small for a regular paper. But you want to get your findings out there. And it's indexed by PubMed, which is nice.

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Stanfards must be getting bad in academia. Who is a professor and who is a hobo?  These days, they're letting a lot of poseurs be college professors so I'm not surprised. And these are all men. There's some women professors who have been mistaken as homeless, too. 

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Sometimes you want a spreadsheet to do some quick forecasting, but you don't want to open Excel for it. QuickSheet is a mini light-weight spreadsheet tries to do that. From the comments, it's got kinks to work out. I've been using TableEdit but this app was created for older macOS versions, and I get a warning that future versions of macOS won't support it. There's no upgrade, however. The app is free so you get what you pay for, I guess.

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Doctors, This Is Why Our Patients Are Using ChatGPT. This article is written by an ED physician. For now, ChatGPT can sound like it's offering sound medical advice, but this may change in the future, as the advice gets outdated, as it is as good as its training cutoff date, which is a year or so ago. But as doctors become in shorter supply, people will turn to Dr. Chat for medical advice. AI isn't helping the medical profession the way it was envisioned. For doctors, it does their charting for them, although in a way that may not help them remember what exactly happened during that visit. When you don't write your own notes, something definitely is lost.

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For folks that can't exercise, whole body vibration can help decrease sarcopenia. I'll bet it feels good, too.

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