The iPhone Camera Problem This is a good article on adjusting the settings on the iPhone camera so that you store photos in a format that preserves detail but still allows for best display when you share photos. I did not know that the phone can store in RAW format but still export as JPEG, because I don't do a lot of exporting. So I made the recommended changes. Good to know.
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Good news for men with androgenetic and aging hair loss. Oral minoxidil seems to be more effective that topical minoxidil against both. The earlier data are holding up.
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The Apple app store universe is looking better all the time.Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.
Every app and every device, worldwide, with no opt-out.
Wikipedia Editors Refuse To Acknowledge New Yorker Writer's Whole Foods Theft. Wikipedia is really left-wing biased. They're refusing to include unflattering information about someone who published that they favor shoplifting because it might look bad on that person. Oh really?
Google Deep Mind researcher feels that to say that "subjective experience emerges entirely from abstract causal topology" is the Abstraction Fallacy and that "...algorithmic symbol manipulation is structurally incapable of instantiating experience". In other words, AI is not likely to possess true consciousness. But sometimes, it sure seems that way.
AI researchers found that when a chatbot responds too quickly, people don't feel that it really spent enough time thinking hard. But when there is a extra delay, people have the impression that yes, the chatbot put in the effort to think about the query.
"a delay makes people assume the results are better"
With fish oils, there's no clear superiority of EPA over DHA. There's research to support the benefits of EPA and for DHA. But here's a study that suggests Eicosapentaenoic acid reprograms cerebrovascular metabolism and impairs repair after brain injury, with relevance to chronic traumatic encephalopathy. But DHA is the more important PUFA in the brain and plays a role in brain health and repair, and EPA's effect on the brain is mainly mood and mental health, so the data does support DHA being more important when it comes to the brain, whereas EPA has data showing cardiovascular benefit.
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Arizona State University hired Atomic AI to make video shorts of their professors' lectures. It turned into AI slop. What works for TikTok doesn't always work for academia.
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Tina Kotek backs $365M Moda Center renovation plan as Blazers’ future questioned. No strings attached. There is no contingency on the Blazers staying in the city. More money lost.
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Community Reslience Map. The US Census Bureau put out a map showing what parts of the country have resilience in the event of a disaster. This takes into account "poverty status, number of caregivers in the households, unit-level crowding, communication barrier, employment, disability status, health insurance coverage, age (65+), vehicle access, and broadband internet access".
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