AMD stock skyrockets 23% as OpenAI takes 10% stake. Man, OpenAI is making everybody rich, it seems. Hope this lasts.
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Avoiding Google is really difficult. You may choose not to use Google products, but when you interact with someone who uses Google, then Google finds out anyway.
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Yeah, I remember when reading immunology papers, suddenly I started seeing mentions of T-reg cells. T-regs weren't mentioned in the immunology textbook I read in the 1990s. Because that was before 2001 and the Foxp3 paper. Even so, it took a few years before the new name started to catch on. That's what this year's Nobel Prize in Medicine is all about – how T-reg cells came to be recognized.
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OpenAI Sneezes, and Software Firms Catch a Cold. Geez, if OpenAI even looks like it might develop an app that does something similar to what you do, your stock may tank. People need to dial it back.
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Gifted children are special needs children. It's interesting that Blue state leaders are so quick to dismiss programs for the gifted, like Washington, California and now New York. And that it's Asians that suffer for it. And yet most Asians support Democrats. A political party can bomb Japan and put Japanese in internment camps, and still they vote Democrat. Make it make sense.
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GPT-5 Pro is out, and boy is it expensive! I see that it's been added to Poe, and I'm eager to try it out on some tough problem, like a coding problem that lesser models get stuck on.
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Here's a guy who had the genetic mutation to get Alzheimer's disease, but he hasn't gotten it – so far. The mystery is – why not? Was it something he did? Or is the genetics wrong?
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The intrepid Kevin Dahlgren illustrates why providing housing isn't going to solve the homeless problem.
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Shocking if true. No one else is talking about this. The Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation might be eliminated due to the government shutdown. This is the entity that rescues failing pension programs. Like PERS. If it is eliminated, or turned over to the states, then a lot of union pensions will be in jeopardy. All those nice pensions that they negotiated for themselves could disappear. The taxpayer would no longer be on the hook for their fat retirement pensions. If money runs out, it runs out.
