25 November 2024

Always learning something new.  It's known that women get bladder infections all the time, but they rarely get pyelonephritis. Why is that. Well, scientists recently discovered something called neutrophil extracellular traps—NETs, that are "sticky webs of wispy strands that quite literally serve as traps that ensnare bacteria that attempt to migrate northward to the kidneys from the lower urinary tract."

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The study, conducted by the Network Contagion Research Institute (NCRI) in collaboration with Rutgers University, found that certain DEI practices could induce hostility, increase authoritarian tendencies, and foster agreement with extreme rhetoric.
That's why.  And boy, have we seen this to be true.  Here's the DEI paper.

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The Japanese have invented a human washing machine. You'll be clean in 15 minutes. This might have some applications for disabled people, who need help bathing themselves. However I imagine some bizarre accidents from this thing.

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The seedy side of AI. To get labeled datasets, someone needs to label the data, and the tech industry has been using low-paid African workers to consume all kinds of images and video and label them.  And some of that media is really horrible. And it's psychologically scarring them.

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Chinese scientists claim they have invested a Death Star type weapon.  Well, they're always copying stuff, so...

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Google is under siege. I think they need a new CEO. Sundar was a guy for a different era of Google. Times have changed.

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Overthinking what you say all the time? It's your lizard brain. But then, your lizard brain developed that habit for a reason. Never dismiss the lizard brain completely.

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Lens breakthrough can lead to thinner cameras.  Tim Cook's ear pricked up.

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Never trust generative AI completely. They hallucinate like hell. As Professor Jeff Hancock, founding director of the Stanford Social Media Lab, “well-known for his research on how people use deception with technology,” has learned to his chagrin.

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