Oracle may have to exit the EHR business. Looks like they need to maintain liquidity by selling off assets. So who will take over as Epic's main competitor?
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LongCOVID has long been associated with symptoms of fatigue, cognitive difficulties, anxiety, depression. So it was a bit of a surprise that brain PET and MRI scans did not reveal widespread inflammation. Instead, there were signs of "increased cellular activity in the hippocampus and amygdala". These are areas associated with new memory formation and anxiety/fear. This is a weird finding. Paper here.
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Mathematicians are finally getting nervous. I think a lot of them felt that AI would not be smart enough to take something as abstract and difficult as mathematics. It wasn't just memorization, they argued, and would require creativity. Well now it's happening.
But for students, professors are seeing that with greater AI usage, there are dwindling math skills in UC Berkeley computer science classes. They're not using AI to empower themselves. They're using it to replace thinking.
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This is interesting: if you enter your LLM prompts using casual language, you'll get answers. But they won't be as good as when you use technical jargon to show domain mastery. Be precise and specific, and the LLM will respond with better results – more of what you were probably asking for, or should be asking for.
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What initially started as simply wanting to write a Linux tool for communicating with my speaker ended up with me discovering vulnerabilities which allow any attacker within a ~15M range of any Katana V2X to turn it into a covert spying tool and Rubber Ducky - all without ever having to pair with or physically touch the device.
Cripes. As if I didn't have enough to worry about.
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This is funny. Claude 4.8 Max will apparently generate a verbose response to – nothing. Even if you have said nothing, if riffs off the nothingness.
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How long will it take to rebuild Blue Origin's damaged space pad? A long while. But they are using this opportunity to redesign.
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Oh-oh. Intel bit off more than it could chew with 18A process node. Dang, just when I thought they were emerging from their rough times.
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Looks like the Waymo isn't quite ready to take on the world. I don't want these vehicles near me. Stay in the Bay Area, please.
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A new diabetes pill burns fat without the downsides of Ozempic? Look at the muscles on the guy in the picture. Who wouldn't want to look like that? But it's a GPCR-based kinase β2-adrenergic agonist. Haven't we been there before with mirabegron? Well, maybe this is better.
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I also tried paraxanthine based on the LessWrong post. And it's exactly like it was described. It improves alertness without the jitters and nervousness. The onset is smoother (everybody seems to use that word). It's perfect for the afternoon, to supplement the morning coffee.
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Ugh. Google's solution to the AI water consumption problem might involve irrigation systems. What a mess.
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The journal Nature is letting its hair down. Nature is going to pair up with TikTok. OK, I guess. Gotta get GenZ's attention I guess.
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Sci-Fi author Ted Chiang is convinced that AI is not conscious. I think it's emergent behavior. Maybe right now it's not conscious. But the emergence will be subtle, and it may not be so obvious at first.
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