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Why are we still doing this BS? Pfizer, BioNTech halt US COVID vaccine study after recruitment struggles. People have gotten wise to the vax. No more. Have they even released their safety data yet?
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Am I reading this right? AI Training Data Giant Mercor Is Reportedly Looking to Buy the Work You Did at Your Old Job. Some company wants to buy the artifacts of your old work so that it can train future AI on it? Sorta sounds like they're looking for people who are willing to sell humanity short for a quick buck. Not to mention maybe selling confidential info from your past or current employer. What a world we live in now.
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I never really understood the fuss about having your own AI personal assistant. So here's a post about how a guy created his. My life isn't that complicated to have to delegate reading work email (I'm not working!) and personal email, my TODO list, my shopping list, my meal prep list, facts about people, etc. I don't need to generate daily logs of things. Geez, what kind of life do some people lead?
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Anthropic just bought a biotech company: CoefficientBio. So they're venturing out into new territory.
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WSJ thinks that Nursing Is the Surefire New Path to American Prosperity. Really? Well, we will sure have a surfeit of sick and elderly people in the future, that's for sure. But from the comments:
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Good for nurses but healthcare can't continue to consume an ever larger share of the US economy. Especially since half of all healthcare spending is now taxpayer-funded and the government borrows close to $2 trillion a year...Yeah, that's already happening in Oregon.
Healthcare spending is already 18% of US GDP— which is double the share of the OECD average.
Yes. I was about to write a similar comment. US healthcare system/Medicare will be bankrupt in a few years.
One certain sign of the bankruptcy will be when nurses in major cities/union nurses begin going ‘ on strike’.
These AI Whiz Kids Dropped Out of College and Got Investors to Pay Their Bills. WSJ article about how some lucky kids got investors to invest in their startup. Will it be like the dotcom era again. Probably not, but that doesn't mean some couldn't get lucky.
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It's nice when the NYT still recognizes the passing of people who made contributions in the math and sciences. Like this obit on Heisuke Hironaka.
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Wow, there is still one guy who was employed at Apple from the start and still works there – Chris Espinosa. Employee #8. Congrats to you for sticking around.
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Someone has been keeping track of all the times the legal profession was caught with AI hallucinations. 1275 cases so far. The latest example was from yesterday.
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Two perspectives on AI's impact on one's work:
Despair: It was nice while it lasted
Optimism: Something Is Happening
It all depends on your perspective and your resourcefulness.
Why the heck are we still using Markdown?? I agree completely. Markdown originated from the world of text-based email and forums, when we wanted/needed to emphasize certain things. But we've evolved since then. For formatted reading, we use HTML or at least Rich-Text.
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The largest collection of free stuff on the internet! Great collection. I could waste a lot time here.
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