Intel's CEO has been clashing with its board. This is not what you want to hear. Interesting that WSJ had an article on this, and the link I saved is broken. In it, there were these tidbits:
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Tan and some Intel directors have disagreed in his first months in the role about questions as central as whether the company should stay in the manufacturing business or exit it entirely,
Intel board chairman Frank Yeary disagreed about whether Intel should remain in the business of making chips for itself and its clients or exit manufacturing, the people said.
Yeary also explored brokering a sale of the business to Taiwan’s TSMC, the people said, but that effort went nowhere.
Even Intel's board is dysfunctional.
Intel had also been exploring a potential acquisition of an AI business, the people said. Proponents of the deal, including Tan, saw it as an opportunity for the company to catch up to rivals such as Nvidia and AMD, which are much further ahead in AI. But the board took its time deliberating the potential deal, and another publicly traded technology company appears poised to buy the target instead, the people said.
What a dysfunctional company.
Meditation posture makes a difference. When I try to meditate lying down, it helps me go to sleep.
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Someone posted the system prompt for GPT-5. Or so its supposed to me. The bio tool is interesting.
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Why are so many women leaving the workforce? You know where they really need to quit? Government positions. Oregon is bad, but Seattle is worse. I wouldn't be surprised if this is the source of all the bad policy. I can't forget this:
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JAMA just put out this article: Colorectal Cancer Incidence in US Adults After Recommendations for Earlier Screening.
Take a look at the incidence graph for the 45 to 49 age group:
Colonoscopy guidelines were revised in 2021, although the American Cancer Society updated their guidelines in 2018. Could earlier screening explain all the increase? I don't think so. If screening were the explanation, you would see a step increase in the incidence curve, as you detected more early-stage disease. But the sharp and steady increase suggests something else is going on. I don't think that people suddenly flocked to their gastroenterologist's office for a procedure. It's not something you are eager to have done. Also, many offices were closed due to government policies. Sure gotta wonder if the mRNA vax had something to do with the incidence.
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Our eyes have not been lying to us. Personality traits are truly different from what they used to be ten years ago. Those less than age 40 are more neurotic, less conscientious, less agreeable, and less extroverted. The changes have not been in a good way.
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