Medical students are using a popular research tool to pump out misleading studies. TriNetX sounds like a biomedical AI slop platform. The last thing we need in a world already immersed in trust problems.
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Louisiana man becomes first in region functionally cured of sickle cell disease. He was a beneficiary of Casgevy’s CRISPR/Cas9 technology. This is great because physicians treating sickle cell disease have one of the highest burnout rates. The article doesn't say why, but anyone who takes care of these patients probably knows.
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HelloAI is very much like poe.com and is slightly less expensive. They don't offer as many models as poe.com, though, although you apparently get more on the paid tiers. I can find info on how many tokens each plan will give you, though.
Lightning.ai is another platform with a similar business model, and a lesser model selection compared with poe.com. I do like the privacy of HelloAI and that their servers are located in Australia and Singapore. There is no desktop app for this, as far as I can tell. There are two Mac desktop apps which call themselves Hello AI, but they don't appear to be associated with this company at all, which is unfortunate.
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The Hotness Curve. This post has popped up on trending lists, and I link it not so much for the topic (this ronin is too old for this stuff) but for the data analysis. The way the polling results are diced and sliced to answer the questions that people would likely be interested in. Of course, ethnicity plays a major role in studies like this, and that factor is not mentioned at all. What was the ethnicity composition of the women that were displayed? Why did the author include AI-generated photos? How about the men that took the poll – do we even know anything about them? Apparently they were the author's X followers, so that a particular demographic right there. All I came away with is that if you're an AI-generated 35 y/o woman, you have a decade or so left of desirability. 🤪
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The Pizza Bakery. This is a nice way of visualizing where the bottlenecks are in vLLMs. nVIDIA makes the bakers and companies like SK Hynix make the pantry. Or at least they did until recently. Now maybe it's just Samsung and Micron?
And Apple is increasing prices on their hardware because of memory and storage shortages. I see that Micron and Sandisk stock is shooting up.
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Well good to know. Your Brain Has Separate Circuits for Belly Laughs and Polite Chuckles. Wonder how this evolved.
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Chinese Supercomputer Overtakes U.S. as World’s Fastest. The LineShine is 22% faster the El Capitan at Lawrence Livermore. Musk's Colossus is up there, too, but didn't participate in these rankings.
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Films studio A24 is collaborating with Google DeepMind. Good. I hope we'll get better movies with compelling stories and less political activist actors to deal with.
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Building a website with AI can be opaque:
Claude and OpenAI are incredible tools — I use them every day. But when a non-technical person asks them to build a website, the AI gives them a developer’s roadmap. It tells them to sign up for Vercel. Set up a Supabase database. Create a GitHub account. Install Node, configure an API, deploy via CLI.
To you and me? That’s just a random Tuesday. To a 75-year-old who just wants a landing page? That is an absolute brick wall.
The author used theassistantbot.com to help her father build this site. I believe there are others that will do this, too, depending on the type of site. Maybe not automated to this degree, though.
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Don't waste tokens needlessly! How Simple “Thank You” and “Please” Cost OpenAI Millions of Dollars Every Year. But some say that using ingratiating words changes LLM output positively.
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Portland's Moda Center renovation debate heats up as Blazers owner Dundon makes his case. Tom Dundon wants the city of Portland to pay for upgrading the Moda Center (his profit center). The implied threat is that he will take the Blazers elsewhere, and there will be no greater symbol of shame for the current Democrat leadership to be the one that lost the iconic basketball team. Whose games just a small minority attend. Dems don't want to be losers in the literal as well as figurative sense. Dundon holds the cards. So taxes and fees will just have to increase. Sorry, not sorry.
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Just yesterday after crowing about the great revenue Seattle took in last year, comes this article: Washington’s gas tax is going up, but state transportation revenue is falling short. Already falling down the other side of the Laffer curve, are we?
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