The Yellow Peril. A yellow Asian oyster mushroom is threatening the native gray species. Pleurotus citrinopileatus is its name. As opposed to Pleurotus ostreatus. It's edible, but how does it taste? That's my first question.
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Cannabis does impair your memory. The memes were right. All kinds of memory gets screwed up. And you get false memories, to boot!
Relative to placebo, cannabis increased susceptibility to false memories and detrimentally impacted verbal memory (immediate, delayed, working), visuospatial memory (immediate, delayed), event-cued prospective memory, source memory, and temporal order memory. There were no significant differences between the moderate and high dose groups.
More commentary about the mental exhaustion brought about by using AI to assist with coding work. Sometimes doing the boring part helped keep you sane.
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Apple will stop making the Mac Pro. The cheese grater will be no more. The MacStudio will be the top. Or will it? Maybe we'll see an Apple-branded machine learning computer. That would be cool.
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Have fine-tuning models fallen by the wayside? Now that you bring it up, I do find less mention of it. However there will always be instruction fine-tuning. That will never go away. But for business applications or specialized settings, perhaps it's not necessary anymore. RAG is good enough. And better prompting. And no more catastrophic forgetting, which is great.
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Dario Amodei thought that his AI models will speed up clinical trials in medicine. Nice to see someone argue that this isn't necessarily true. Dario isn't a clinical researcher. He's an engineer. It's not just using AI to predict new drugs from 3D spatial representations of active sites. There's much more than that.
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I've read about red light therapy now and then and thought it was all bunk. But maybe there is some truth to it. People keep using it and believe it works.
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Here's some detail on "How I created Rosie's mRNA Vaccine Protocol". Well, it turns out that Rosie the Dog got more than just an mRNA vaccine. Her tumor had a c-KIT mutation (not surprising since the tumor was mastocytosis). The exact mutation wasn't stated, but in humans the c-KIT inhibitor avapritinib has been effective. So her tumor reduction could just be attributed to the tyrosine kinase inhibitor. She was also given an immune checkpoint inhibitor (article doesn't say which one) and there is almost no clinical experience with checkpoint inhibitors against mastocytosis in humans. There is even some danger of triggering anaphylaxis in mastocytosis, so trying this on Rosie was risky without a phase I study. So I'm thinking that Rosie benefited from the tyrosine kinase inhibitor mainly, and not necessarily the mRNA vaccine, but who knows? I would have just given Rosie avapritinib. It's not clear to me that the other interventions did anything.
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Some People’s Brains Can Sense Earth’s Magnetic Field. Really strange. The scientific set up to prove this hypothesis seems kinda sketchy to me.
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Well, some of those people who invested in windmills and solar panel farms are striking back. Heh, I thought it was just doctors who would lose their money investing in windmill farms. These things only make sense if with federal money. If there's no money, these things are seen for what they really are.
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The quantum Mpemba effect. Wow, I bet that kid from Tanzania never expected there would be a real physics term like that named after him.
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Websites like time.is makes you think that time can be exact on the Internet. After reading this, however, I don't think any Internet-based timing can be that accurate.
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Carbon-14 has a half life of about 5700 years. Someone created a carbon-14 based battery that can power devices for thousands of years. I'm sure there will be trade-offs. 😁
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Make this make sense. L.A. hands $107M ‘blank check’ to homeless group who constantly sues the city.
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Bob Ferguson will undo the estate tax increase that their lawmakers passed last year. Guess he's not completely gone.
And Steve Novick will vote against the Portland City Council using Portland Clean Energy Benefits Fund to pay for the MODA Center renovation. Suppose you collected a tax on citizens, which you stated was for a good cause, like climate change in this case. Then the money was more than you expected. What's the right thing to do? Turn it into a slush fund for yourself? Use it to fund something else? How corrupt is that, right? So good for you, Steve.
And Netflix is going to release a documentary called "Jail Blazers". That's what some of us used to call them. So much misspent dollars.
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