Hank Green has a video where he takes a deep dive into the "autism is increasing" data, and finds that it is indeed very messy. Welcome to science, Hank. Much of it is very much like this, which is why doing meta-analyses can make you tear out your hair. He concludes that it's simplistic to say that all autism has been increasing. Much of it is due to diagnostic shifting and changing criteria. Hank doesn't explore much the causes of autism, except to quickly mention factors such as parental age, premature birth and maternal diabetes. A good effort, though, but my reaction is like that meme: "First time?"
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South Korean paper shows that a year after getting the mRNA COVID vax, the incidence of certain cancers increases. There an increase in cancers of the thyroid, gastric, prostate, colon, lung, and breast. And if you got boosted, the risk really goes up for pancreatic and gastric cancers. Koreans get a lot of gastric cancer anyway, so that has to be factored in. And they got mainly the Pfizer product.
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N,N-dimethyltryptamine mitigates experimental stroke by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier and reducing neuroinflammation. Could be useful.
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AI is really impacting the job prospects of newly-minted software engineers. Suddenly, companies want experienced talent, not just having taken some courses on how to code. AI has got to be in the curriculum somehow, and universities need to revamp their courses, or their graduates are going to come out unprepared and at a disadvantage.
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Looks like Logitech is coming out with the MX Master 4, which looks nice. It's predicted to be announced in the U.S. in two days. At this point, I'm not sure I really need it, but we'll have to see what is really new. The new extra button is intriguing.
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They built a country which works so well, it has tamed the utter chaos that historically defined most of our forebears’ lives and given us all a neat, packaged life. A life which most of us can live formulaically, sleepwalking through it without doing a single brave thing. You are, of course, still expected to work hard, but we hold the honour of being the first immigrant nation to have so thoroughly self-domesticated, to have ourselves doused the ambition which ferried the droves of hungry poor, desperate and begging for better lives.
Yeah, Singapore did all the right things, and has a very nice, wealth nation. But it did this by copying and just having a citizenship that followed the rules, not by innovating and developing top industries.
We Singaporeans are so smart, we know that the safest way to get a return on our investment is to see what everyone else is doing, and to do it better. We're so numerate, we know instinctively that starting something new has a lower risk-adjusted EV than working hard as an investment banker/consultant/lawyer/doctor/software engineer, and with a far higher Sharpe ratio too.
Nothing wrong with that.
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She Sent Her iPhone to Apple. Repair Techs Uploaded Her Nudes to Facebook. Ugh, this happened in Oregon. When you must turn in your phone or computer to a repair shop, create a new user and switch to that user, and then send the device in. That way all your confidential data is inaccessible. Never just send it in unlocked.
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Nice review on the history of longevity prolongation efforts by infusion of youthful blood-derived products. It's apparently already possible to slow aging by a noticeable and measurable degree. But the methods are crude and the exact mechanism by which it happens is unclear. Once we figure out how to do it, then the ethical issues will need to be dealt with. And it's still not clear if these longevity manipulations might have an undesireable side-effect, such as cancer promotion.
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