People don't like being force-fed AI, but Microsoft is only too happy to force it on people.
OpenAI has hired a forensic psychiatrist to see how ChatGPT is affecting people emotionally.
Microsoft says that if you are experiencing stress from getting laid off, use ChatGPT as your psychiatrist to deal with it. How thoughtful.
This woman has a job fixing code for companies that decided to use ChatGPT instead of hiring a real software developer. These companies ended up spending more than if they did it right the first time.
This study says that AI models display only "Potemkin understanding" and don't really know what they're saying. That's good, I suppose.
Scientists reverse Parkinson's disease in mice with copper supplements. Apparently there's a mutation in the superoxide dismutase gene, SOD1, that is associated with Parkinson's disease. SOD1 uses a metal, such as copper or zinc as a catalyst. In this case, they administered copper and the disease phenotype improved significantly. But it's not clear if human Parkinson's disease is mediated by the same mutation and disease process.
And a mucolytic (not yet available in the U.S.) called ambroxol, may help ameliorate Parkinon's disease dementia.
Beware of trusting ZIP files. The file you unzip may not be the file that someone else unzips. Use 7z for compression. It's much better. I use Keka.
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Top 10 most secure phones in 2025. The iPhone 16 Pro Max is on the list. A Samsung phone is on the list, too, amazingly.
Several physician organizations are upset the RFK Jr fired the vaccine panel and replaced them with COVID-19 vax skeptics. They are so eager to continue to ruse.
And then this Japanese study just got published, linking the mRNA vax to rapid progression of pancreatic cancer. Gee, don't you think we should stop producing this vax and do some investigating?
And I'm tired of all the panicky news about the new variant.
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The comic Sally Forth ripped off a Calvin and Hobbes plot, and no one noticed at the time. Blatant.
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Comparing calculators. Looks like the iOS calculators can't handle edge cases, whereas Android calculators can. Of course one can use Wolfram Alpha, which is really accurate, and can do a whole lot more. Many iOS calculators can't handle the edge case discussed in the article. The best calculator for casual calculations (because Wolfram's format is too unwieldy) is the HiPER calculator. For now, it's my go-to calculator. Very nice.
Incredible video of ball lightning. It looks like a science fiction scene from a Benson and Moorhead film. Why don't I get to see stuff like this?
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