Scientist claim to have developed a test for ME/CFS.
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Impressive. Let's see how well it holds up against new cases.they said the test had a sensitivity – or the likelihood of a test being positive if that patient has the condition – of 92%. It had a specificity – the probability the test will rule out negative cases – of 98%.
Yup. Legalizing weed was a bad idea. But it's probably impossible to put the toothpaste back into the tube.
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Frog.cc looks interesting. I haven't tried it out. Looks more gimmicky than something actually useful. In my experience, developing a really useful and interesting app takes a lot of massaging and editing. This is just an interface that has a lot of the helpful prompts already in place.
I understand this. AI gets more 'meh' as you get to know it better, researchers discover. Just a few years ago, we thought ChatGPT was magical. Now, it's "meh". We are so quickly jaded. But yeah, we can see the flaws and limitations now. I think AI is too overextended and doesn't live up to some of the hype.
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This is cool. Scientists Just Reversed Alzheimer’s in Mice. They developed nanoparticles that acted on the blood-brain barrier, activating a feedback mechanism that enhanced a clearance pathway that reduced amyloid accumulation. Paper here.
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Cocoa extract can reduce markers of chronic inflammation. This study didn't show any other endpoints, however. Still, it supports other studies in favor of cocoa flavonols. This made me look up CocoaVia and I see they're still in business. I tried them once for a few months, and didn't notice any difference and stopped. Supposedly measurable benefits can be seen in a few weeks. Maybe I was just too young to notice a difference back then.
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Portland grocery stores are locking up Top Ramen because of the "bottom quintile" people. We live in a city where we can't have nice things.
And speaking of Portland, WWeek published some of the Peacock messages that the city council chatted on recently. The city council members think that the crash in housing and property prices in the city is a good thing, because they thought the prices were too high to begin with. And also, it presents a "buying opportunity" for the city. Yeah, forget that it makes a lot of peoples' mortgages underwater, not to mention investors, and it discourages investment. They still need to collect rent to make it all pencil out. Since when is debasing people's assets a good thing. Plus, the city has no business trying to buy property. Just manage the city for pete's sake. This attitude is basically why they think nothing of trashing the city with homeless shelters and deflection centers and detox centers, not to mention graffiti and trash.
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There's an AI Agent craze right now. Everybody has a course to teach it. Let an AI Agent take control of your computer and do things autonomously. What could go wrong? Well at last, someone is sounding the alarm. Not so fast. Security measures aren't always in place, and these things could do a lot of harm, and cause a great deal of embarrassement. This is why I refuse to use AI browsers just yet.
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Wow, OHSU's Lawrence Furnstahl will depart in a month and a half. They're going to have to find someone else willing to take on OHSU's financial problems. Either they promote from within, or try to convince some poor slob to move to Portland. Good luck with that.
Portland Opera is facing the same difficulty. Their general manager is retiring. I haven't been to Portland Opera at all – no compelling reason. I want to see the extravagant, classical shows like I saw in San Francisco. Not modern, urban re-interpretations for hipster audiences. Call me old-fashioned.
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Even the Washington Post admits that Obamacare was never affordable. It's a socialist money-sink that depends on subsidies to operate. Trump is correct in letting it slide, but needs to put something in place that people can latch onto. This is something that was missing even with his 2017 effort.
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Timberline Lodge ticket prices will soar as insurance costs increase 586%. Holy crap! What will the Dems blame this on? Trump's tariffs? Climate change? Palestine? Russian interference?
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When you see PISA test scores, you generally only see country-level rankings, but never a breakdown. It turns out that America's Asians outperform other Asians, and America's Whites outperform other Whites.
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Horrible, if true.
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