28 October 2025

Heh. China was caught trying to steal IP. They tried to reverse-engineer ASML's DUV technology, but it was too difficult. Now they have a broken device that needs fixing. I'll bet they'll watch carefully to see how it's done.

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Peter McCullough's group agrees with RFK about the causes of autism spectrum disorder. I agree with the "multifactorial model of ASD in which genetic predisposition, neuroimmune biology, environmental toxicants, perinatal stressors, and iatrogenic exposures"
play a role in the genesis of this condition. We should rethink the vaccines we give to neonates and toddlers.

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Getting a degree in computer science was supposed to be a ticket to job security and a comfortable income. Now, this is not guaranteed at all, thanks to AI. The goalposts have moved, and you need to study machine learning and artificial intelligence, and even that field is advancing rapidly.

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About 23% of people don't respond to GLP-1RA weight loss drugs. It's not clear why, but there are some theories.

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Chegg is cutting about half their workforce. I'm surprised they're still around. The rise of LLMs really hit them hard, didn't it? Why don't they fine-tune open source LLMs and market those? That's what I'd look into.

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What happens when you click the send button on ChatGPT? The workings of the transformer model for the curious.
Speaking of which, OpenAI estimates that 560,000 users of ChatGPT each week appear to have mental health emergencies

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LLMs a new kind of steganography. Hiding text within text, using the next word prediction probabilities.

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Microsoft joins the AI circle-jerk. A new deal, with Microsoft owning 27% of it.

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Should you think twice about pouring unwanted coffee down the drain? Worse things have gone down the drain. Lilke poo.

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Elon Musk's Grokepedia seems to be copying pages from Wikipedia. I figured this would happen. Didn't think he'd be able to write a new enecyclopedia from scratch.

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Hang on to your AirPods2 for a bit longer.  Apple's AirPods 3 doesn't handle air travel well.

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I never heard of the Even Realities G1 Smart Glasses before. This would be great for making a speech, since it could function as a built-in teleprompter.

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Amazon is going to lay off 30,000 employees. These will be mainly in California, as they have already laid off 27,000 Seattle employees. They're going all out on AI and robotics. Could be a risky move.

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A new class of potent antibiotics are being developed – methylenomycins. Effective against gram-positive and gram-negative organisms, there seems to be no resistance with multidrug resistance Enterococcus. Not sure about tolerance and side-effect profile.

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