29 December 2024

Apple analyzes your photos in the Photos app. This is to provide you with a feature you didn't ask for. You can turn Enhanced Visual Search off, however.

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Cancer risk can actually decreased past the age of 80. This is because older cells express NUPR1 protein, which induces a functional iron deficiency.  This restricts cell growth, even cancerous growth.  NUPR1 may be present to prevent ferroptosis, which is iron-induced programmed cell death.  The interactions are complex, and this has implications for proposed therapies that are dependent on leveraging ferroptosis.

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Can LLMs Accurately Recall the Bible.  This is a nice lesson in how well you can rely on LLMs to look up information. If you can't trust it on the Bible, how can you trust it for other information?
And here is an app (Chorus) that lets you compare the responses of a few of the top LLMs, to see how closely they agree.  Sometimes the errors are glaring. 

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Some Chinese scientists identified proteins associated with brain aging. Interestingly, levels of these proteins seems to peak at three distinct ages: 57, 70, 78 years. However, the protein elevations decrease back to baseline after surging. If the spikes reflecting brain aging, wouldn't you expect the levels to stay elevated?  Could these protein level changes indicate something else? 

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