19 January 2026

Tighter bounds in the prime number theorem

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What nobody teaches you after you stop being broke. This is what Robert Kiyosaki has been saying in the Rich Dad Poor Dad book series. It helps if you have mentors to guide you, but you can't wait for them.

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Augmented reality can help people with mild dementia. AI can be a force for good.

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The AI Trap That Is Quietly Wiping Out Angel Investors. I'm reminded of Forward Health and their gross miscalculation of the economics of their health pods. It's hard to evaluate AI startups, and it truly is different from evaluating a software company.

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Modern problems call for modern solutions. This touches on colleges no longer being the best way to teach the current generation of short attention span college kids. Colleges are just diploma mills now, and graduates are badly unprepared. Since they already rely on Internet search and generative AI, perhaps it can be adapted as a teaching tool. A professor in every pocket as it were.

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So what if there were a simple finger-prick blood test for Alzheimer's disease? What would you do with that information? Besides plan ahead.

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Science journals retract 500 papers a month.  It's a problem, but what can you do?

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De-Googled Android phones look good and might be in demand someday. They still don't offer complete privacy. Not until they also incorporate encrypted ham radio communications.

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All monsters who promote transgender surgeries and hormonal therapy for kids needs to see this video by a woman who transitioned as a girl and came to regret it. It's amazing how some of the medical community allowed themselves to be brainwashed into thinking this should be done. Between this issue and COVID-19, it's become clear how people who have the potential to be smart can be so deluded into believing dumb ideology.

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Here's a Dem senator who thinks we're not spending enough on healthcare. Really?

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How dumb is this? Washington state legislators are considering forcing 3-D printers to be able to detect if a gun part is being printed, so that it can refuse to do so. So people will just get them elsewhere.

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Google's datacenter in The Dalles wants more water.  Why does the water need to come from Mt Hood instead of the Columbia River.

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Sen Lisa Reynolds wants Oregon to regulate ChatGPT use in children.  Yeah good luck with that. Might as well take their Internet away, too. You can't regulate chatbots – there will always be a way around every piece of law. I'd like to protect kids from certain ideologies, too, but I know that can't be forced upon them. Kids just need to be brought up and trained right. Don't create useless regulations that are going to restrict the rest of us. 

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Is Oregon going to go back to requiring academic standards again in schools? I'll be the teachers unions will kill this effort.

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18 January 2026

Nice. Two thoughtful articles on Scott Adams, by Jeff Tucker and Scott Alexander.

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This article came out recently linking the COVID-19 vax to cancer.  Sometime after it was published, the journal site was heavily DDoS-bombed. Why does someone want to hide the truth?

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Software companies are feeling existential pressure as generative AI replaces some of the functionality they used to provide. GenAI is not the replacement for software just yet. Things haven't gotten that good at this point.

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AI is speeding into healthcare. Who should regulate it?  Well it doesn't seem that the FDA wants to do it. They probably don't know how. But it needs to be done, and there will probably be some wrangling as different entities fight to assume this responsibility.

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A commentary about the decline of StackOverflow. We must remember that the LLMs we use today were trained on StackOverflow and StackExchange. So eventually, they will need to be trained on something else, but what that something else is remains to be seen.

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The blood of LongCOVID patients has something that makes mitochondria wither, leading to severe muscular deterioration. But what is/are that factor(s)? The article doesn't say.

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OpenAI could reportedly run out of cash by mid-2027 — analyst paints grim picture after examining the company's finances. 2027 is a long ways away. Who knows what might happen. Altman doesn't seem worried. But they have problems to solve all right. Maybe that's why OpenAI is considering adding ads to ChatGPT.  Will that degrade the experience?

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Here's an introduction to explainable AI in radiology.

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MyBuddy is a way that you could track the whereabouts of an elderly relative to make sure they are where they should be. You can get the app here.  It goes on the trackee's phone, and the trackee is in total control. Might even be useful for a parent to have on their child's phone.

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17 January 2026

Oh-oh. FDA Removes Web Content Saying Cellphones Are Harmless - HHS Launches Study. What does this mean?

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7 Steps How to Delete Yourself from the Internet (2026): Digital Ghost Protocol. This might come in handy someday. I already use DeleteMe and recommend it.

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How far doctors have fallen. The days when doctors were able to command prestige has long gone. "Getting creative" means scrambling to find space where you can set up a practice. Because the world has gotten too expensive, unless you are an employed hospital drone, where everyone else gets to strike for higher wages and benefits except you, while you pick up the slack so that they can leave work to strike. What crap.

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California's proposed billionaires wealth tax will kill the startup world there. There's no way a founder would be able to pay taxes on wealth that only exists on paper. And some government official will decide how much you owe, not you, your accountant or attorney.

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What are the red dots that show up in all those deep sky astrophotographs? They're ancient mini-black holes.

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Wonderful. jQuery 4.0.0 is released. This useful library makes magic happen.

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Portland – the City that Wokes.  How Much More ‘Progress’ Can Portland Endure? Portland makes the national news, and again it's for the wrong reason. The leaders represent everything that's wrong with governance, and sadly they think they're on the right side. Which is why the affluent and their businesses are fleeing, and why crime flourishes. The city can't have nice things anymore. Portland – the City that Wokes.

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Why communism doesn't work. Ashland realizes that the city owns too many buildings. And those buildings need repair and maintenance. And they don't have money for it. And city residents don't feel like paying taxes for this. Pay up, comrade!

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As for artificial intelligence, Blosser said that Oregon is ahead of most states because every state employee already has access to Microsoft's A.I. tool CoPilot. 
No, Nik, the techies are abandoning Microsoft's CoPilot for alternatives like WindSurf or Claude Code. CoPilot was cutting edge in 2024.  

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16 January 2026

More Americans are living alone than ever before. Maybe there is need for that Are You Dead app here, too.

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Why college students can't do basic math. This video confirms what I've suspected. Teachers are derelict in their obligations. Students are just passed along. Schools are just activism incubtators – that's all students learn how to do. So maybe we do need H-1B visas after all.

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Scientists create sci-fi-like spray that heals wounds in seconds. It's a spray-on powder that turns into a gel on contact with blood.

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QArt Coder. Put your image in a QR Code.

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People are leaving Cursor for Claude Code. Cursor had its day. No more. 

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7 Signs of Undiagnosed Autism in Adults. Wow, so if you are "not like other people" you have autism now? Seems like a broad definition. This isn't what I understood autism as being. Maybe it's time to redefine "normal" behavior.

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Aspartame decreases fat deposits in mice at a cost of mild cardiac hypertrophy and reduced cognitive performance. Granted this study was done in mice, but still. But sugar is not good for you either so what do you do? I use allulose when I need sweetening, and it seems to be the best.

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A neuro-cognitive scientist believes he can prove (literally) that ChatGPT isn't conscious. I tried following the argument in the blog and it seems like hand-waving. He says read the paper, but if you can't even summarize it and tell me where the paper is going, that's a problem.

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President Trump reveals his Great Healthcare Plan.  I like that it will make people own their own insurance plan, and that money will be given to make it happen. Eventually, I hope, things will evolve to where insurance companies need to recognize that they are no longer in control, and that people can switch to a better competitor if they don't play nicely. That's what it should be. Let's leverage competitive market forces to the consumers' advantage.

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Tina Kotek will not be able to remove the transportation bill initiative off November's ballot, The distasteful gas tax bill will be a powerful reminder as her re-election bid will be on the same ballot.

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Homelessness jumped 35% in Oregon. Of course. The homeless industrial complex has been a business model for many. Why would you want it to go away?

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Guess which state has the highest prevalence of mentally ill? That's right, Oregon. You can tell, just by reading the local news. Good thing Trump restored funding for mental health and addiction treatment. 

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Portland-area voters have a dim outlook on their economic prospects. Yeah, with the current socialist leadership in place, things are not likely to get better. So much drug abuse, tents everywhere, crime, people protesting instead of working. Paying so much taxes and fees. Businesses closing. Or moving away.

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In Washington, Senate Bill 5974 will let an unelected board the unprecedented power to unseat constitutionally-elected sheriffs if they don’t like them.  Watch the video.

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OMSI is just crazy. "Immunocompromised-friendly".  What the hell?  It's 2026!  Get over it, already!

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15 January 2026

The Supreme Court has decided that candidates do have standing to challenge election laws after all. Remember when a bunch of states wanted to challenge the 2020 election because of irregularities, and the Supreme Court said that they had no standing, puzzling a lot of legal experts. Well, it seems that they had a change of heart. So rules about counting ballots way after election day and accepting late ballots may be illegal. Big blow to the Dems, of course.

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Epic, OCHIN, Reid Health, Trinity Health and UMass Memorial Health sue Health Gorilla for using data from their platforms for monetizing health data for non-health uses. We'll probably see more of this in the AI age.

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Black Ivory is coffee that elephants have pooped out. Suppposed to have a nice chocolately flavor. So it's not just civet cats that poop out gourmet coffee beans. The question is, who thought these beans were worth making coffee from to begin with?

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If you can't get motivated, it might be a problem with the parts of your brain in the ventral striatum and ventral pallidum. But stimulating motivation may stimulate anxiety. So is the lack of motivation the way the brain deals with anxiety? Or is it a negative coping strategy?

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Remember digg.com? It's trying to make a comeback. I remember visiting that site before Reddit took over. Will it appeal to the post-Reddit generation? We shall see. One more place to spend the hours. 

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Article on AI cracking hard math problems. "Since Christmas, 15 problems have been moved from “open” to “solved” on the Erdős website". That's a lot in such a short period.

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Reprompt: The Single-Click Microsoft Copilot Attack that Silently Steals Your Personal Data. This is why I am wary about having AI integrated into anything, like browsers or other sensitive and critical apps I use.

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Fauci Knew That Natural Immunity Was Superior to Vaccine and Still Pushed to Require It. When will someone put this man on trial and grill him? So much damage came out of his recommendations.

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Here's another reason I know that the whole green energy push was fake:  Kamala Harris Buys $8.2 Million Seaside Mansion After Warning 'Sea Levels Are Rising' Due to 'Climate Crisis'. Harris's new home features many of the same amenities—such as a gas stove and fireplace—that the Biden-Harris administration targeted with regulations. "How dare you?" as some idiot would say.

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Oregon lawmakers confront ballooning Medicaid costs. Democrat healthcare plans consist of getting government subsidies. To pay off union employees, while shortchanging the non-unionized doctors. And Obamacare was good to hospitals. Really good. Labor unions loved it. But Medicaid reimbursement is declining. We need a better alternative to the ACA. 

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Portland taxes keep increasing. And there is decreasing benefits from tax payments. Money is wasted – good thrown after bad. 
Interesting that Tina Kotek picked a Republican to be her Chief Prosperity Officer. Gee, why not pick a Democrat Socialist?

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Kathleen Kennedy is really going to step down from being the head of Lucasfilm. But you know, the damage has been done. And from what I've read, the person who is taking over isn't necessarily going to make the franchise anything like what it was before in the 1980s. It's just Star Trek now – the franchises have been ruined.

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14 January 2026

The Samsung Galaxy Trifold is an interesting concept. Will foldables be the wave of the future?  Looks like it'll break easily and there will be a LOT of electronic waste. I think that portable electronics should be kept simple. If you want a tablet, get a real tablet. 
The Lenovo Legion Pro is also interesting. The main problem is that the expansion and contraction process is slow. You gotta wait until the scrolling process completes. So if you have to slam your laptop quickly because your cab came, or you gotta go, it'll be awkward. But this is the first generation. 

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Every so often, there's a new financial scheme that comes out gets attention. I remember when a friend was all crazy about his Orange high-yield savings account. Of course those are passé now. Now, it's box spreads synthetic loans. And there's a fintech company ready to help you get set up. It's legal and they make it sound safe. But the 1 month Treasury is still 3.629% and if you compound that monthly, it can add up!

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Sheesh. You know, if Chinese people keep doing this crap, pretty soon, no one is going to want to put a Chinese person in any position of authority. As an Asian, I say that it actually hurts ALL of us, actually, and erases all the goodwill that the 442 regiment worked so hard to create. Americans already have some bias against Asians. Look at Hollywood. We don't need to give them this trope on top of everything else.

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I studied Stoicism and never understood the concept of premeditatio malorum, which to me translates to "evil meditation". All it seems to do is stoke anxiety and dread. The purpose is to think of the worst case scenario so much that it numbs you, but that kind of thinking is not for everyone. I'll prepare for likely adverse possibilities when I have to, but I prefer not to dwell on negativity.

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Is this the proof of the Riemann Hypothesis? Feel free to check it out and see for yourself.

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This is a great idea for those trying to learn kanji. All that furigana can be a hindrance. This technique should be standard.

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Are seed oils really bad for you? Or is it a viral social media myth? Here's a discussion with a dietician, but he does not distinguish between lineoleic acids and conjugated linoleic acids, which behave differently.  CLA can be good for you.  And that this wasn't even mentioned in the interview makes me suspect of the whole thing.

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Washington state has been raiding their public works account for cash. Poor fiscal management by the Dems. Any entity with cash in that state isnt safe from Democrat scrutiny.

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Minnesota schools are like Oregon schools. You just learn the 3 Rs: reading, writing, and revolution. Or maybe it's reading, racism and revolution? We already know they cancelled school until February. Probably so that kids can join the protests.

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No need to wonder why Americans have lost faith in the medical profession. Just watch this video. How do physicians let their brains get so soft?
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13 January 2026

A pill to treat sleep apnea? Apparently it stimulates the brainstem to regulate breathing while asleep. It would seem to be a treatment for central sleep apnea, but the article suggests that it works for obstructive sleep apnea, too. The company is Apnimed. They could make a lot of money – sleep apnea is so common.

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Sad day. Scott Adams passed away.  He made an indelible mark on life, no question.

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The unexpected interaction between CBD and THC in caffeinated beverages. Apparently THC, CBD and caffeine interact and can make you feel overconfident, even though you are impaired. 
This method was designed to model how a consumer might slowly drink a cannabis-infused beverage at a social event.
The total dosages administered were 7.5 milligrams of THC, 180 milligrams of caffeine, and 105 milligrams of CBD. These amounts were selected to reflect the potency of products currently available on retail shelves. 
When participants consumed the THC and caffeine mixture, they expressed a slightly higher willingness to drive compared to when they consumed THC alone. This increased confidence occurred despite the fact that their actual driving performance on the simulator remained impaired. This disconnect suggests that caffeine might mask feelings of sedation without restoring the physical and mental skills necessary for safety.
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Physicians see 1 in 6 patients as ‘difficult’, particularly those who have anxiety or depression. I can imagine. There are other articles describing how more doctors are leaving medicine than ever before.

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Stoicism is one of the best mind hacks ever devised. It will definitely help you deal with stress.

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This Ralph Wiggum hack started out as a joke, but it's becoming big.

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Taiwan now takes the lead in the country with the lowest fertility rate. What's with these Asian countries: Japan and South Korea and now Taiwan. No one ever accused mainland China of having a fertility problem. What's going on?

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Phind.com is shutting down.This was my very first experience with chat models. I've moved on to better things now. Looks like phind.com never really grew out of their original business model. No wonder it had to shut down.

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Maybe I'm going to have to get a new monitor. Some of these at CES 2026 look sweet.

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‘A 9-gigawatt problem’: Northwest’s soaring energy demand, supply constraints, could spark new power crisis. Oregon's power consumption demands are taking off, but the infrastructure and how to pay for it is lagging behind.  This takes savvy management by someone who knows what to do. And who do we have? Tina Kotek.

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Google removes some AI health summaries after investigation finds “dangerous” flaws. Dr. Google realizes that giving medical advice is complicated.

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The Oregon Scorecard. Gonna bookmark this. Oregon's scores are low, and is the reason why we're in the fix we're in. Seems all the government knows how to do is get federal subsidies for this and that and to tax people and collect fees for the rest.

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Gavin Newsom moves to neutralize tax on billionaires. Good luck on that. Once this gets on the ballot, Californians will all want to "stick to the rich". And once it's in place, it will be renewed. It won't really be a one-time thing. They'll extend it, no doubt. And Newsom won't be able to do anything. The Google guys did right to move out. 

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12 January 2026

Anthropic is getting into the healthcare business, too.  Looks like the initial foray is in prior authorization approvals, which can streamline the process. 

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Heart failure deaths have accelerated in U.S. since COVID pandemic. Whatever could the cause be?

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Here's a new way to think about how LLMs should process memory. Make them memorize things like how humans do.

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It's funny to see two separate articles talk about the same thing: how lousy Date() is in javascript, and how Temporal() is going to replace it. Seems like something long overdue.

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This guy used AI to find a really good secret fishing spot. He scraped 100,000 fishing posts and put all the information together to narrow down the location. Excellent use of technology.

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There's a right way and a wrong way to detach Post-It notes from the block.

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This guy calls himself a security expert but he uses the Chrome browser. And he installs extensions without knowing what they do.

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AI can perceive optical illusions now. So perceiving them is not a human brain characteristic, is it?

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Microsoft seems to be a bumbling company now. I thought things were bad during the Ballmer years, but those were mainly bad tech decisions – missed opportunities and bad implementation. Now, it's indecision (esp with AI) and bad marketing. Office is their bread and butter. What are they going to do if people start abandoning it for something more predictable and doesn't waste time on stuff people didn't ask for?

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Sign of the times. In China, young people who live alone seem to need an app that will let others know if they die. If they don't check in at least every two days, notifications get sent out.  To notify those who you think would care to know. How pathetic that is.

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Erich von Däniken died two days ago.  I read Chariots of the Gods when I was a kid. Had a lot of discussions with my nerd friends. RIP, man. You were the first (at least for me). Then came Graham Hancock.

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11 January 2026

Cool. Japanese scientists have developed a new kind of microscopy that lets scientists observe life unfolding inside cells. It's called bidirectional quantitative scattering microscopy (paper here). This lets you see the traffic in a live cell and gain insights into cell biological functioning.

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Testimony from a surviving Maduro guard on what happened on the night of the raid. Sounds straight out of some science fiction story, if his account is accurate. 
Without a doubt. I'm sending a warning to anyone who thinks they can fight the United States. They have no idea what they're capable of. After what I saw, I never want to be on the other side of that again. They're not to be messed with.
Looks like gave 5 stars on the mobile app. Looks like the U.S. really has a Department of War. 

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By playing around with the molecular structure of LSD, some scientists found a potent analog to treat depression without the hallucinogenic potential. It's called JRT, and since it's unusual to have the letter J in a scientific name, I clicked to see what it stood for. It stands for the initials of the lead author. He named this agent after himself. 🙄 That's different. 

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Today is the day Aaron Swartz died in 2013. One of the things he invented was the Markup Language. And this article from last year appeared today on Hacker News. Of course, people are opinionated about this, and the author took umbrage at criticism directed against the article. Markdown is not perfect, but there is a place for it. and we need some kind of simple formatting to achieve a WYSIWYG look. I edit in CotEditor and view the result in Marked 2. I don't think Markdown is a "disaster" but it's there, and you can use it if you like, or leave it alone.

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It's so amusing when media publishes articles like this: The NIH has lost its scientific integrity. So we left. The authors are upset because RFK Jr is having the vaccine schedule reviewed and updated, and apparently they don't like that this happened at all. You never saw articles like this when Biden was president and they kept pushing the COVID mRNA vax product. Or when the Dems were so much in favor of sex-reassignment surgery on teens. Yes, somehow reviewing the vaccine schedule is scientific dis-integrity? This just reveals how partisan they are. 
And speaking of the Lefty intolerance, I lost respect for Daring Fireball after he posted this article, calling Sundar Pichai and Tim Cook cowards for not censoring Grok. The Right says, "If you don't like it, don't use it." The Left says "I don't like it, so you can't have it." There are far, far worse things that society has had to put up with during the last administration than just an app that puts a bikini on people.

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This is the hard reality of the downside of biometric security. We saw this in Dan Brown's book Angels and Demons, too.

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There's been social media buzz that maybe high cholesterol levels are actually better for you. This article debunks that. And I love this quote:
“We must admit that our opponents in this argument have a marked advantage over us. They need only a few words to set forth a half-truth; whereas, in order to show that it is a half-truth, we have to resort to long and arid dissertations.”

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So true.

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I saw this article: How rethinking your relationship with time could give you more of it, but this statement caught my eye:
One study showed that people would rather spend 15 minutes getting electric shocks than 15 minutes of time with their own thoughts – particularly men: 67 per cent of men preferred the electric shock, compared with 25 per cent of women. 
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Do you feel this way?  Using AI is no longer optional. It's beginning to feel that way.

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Yet another article touting the value of creatine supplements. Increasing levels of creatine should help in theory but I never notice any difference. Like I don't get that post-exercise mood elevation people talk about.

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It's simple (in theory). How to get stronger – keep exercising until your muscles ache, and always be working on trying to make them ache.

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The Economist write about falling fentanyl overdose deaths.  But do they credit the current administration? Nope. They do admit that peak purity of fentanyl powder occurred in July 2023 (while Biden was in power) but what they credit now is that somehow there is "shrinkflation" keeping drug overdoses low. What effort could have resulted in that? Could it be "something changing in China"? Hmmm. They are at a loss to say.

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Sigh. Gov. Tina Kotek extends homelessness emergency for fourth year.  Of course.

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10 January 2026

Most Alzheimer's cases linked to variants in a single gene. And that gene is ... APOE, coding for apolipoprotein E. Why would that be? What's the connection?

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Origin cells for common malignant brain tumor in young adults uncovered. It's amazing that before, the presence of an IDH1 mutation in glioblastoma was felt to be an occasional marker and perhaps something that could be used as a targeted treatment. Now, the presence of an IDH1 mutation means that a tumor is NOT a glioblastoma, but rather a grade 4 astrocytoma.

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Infections can be diagnosed in 20 minutes. This is not really news, as it's been reported before. I'd like to see how this pans out in real life. Sometimes infections can be polymicrobial, and so detection of only the lead bacteria can lead to unexpected outcomes. Still, it's an advance, and certainly welcome.

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Always learning something new. How Dad’s Fitness May Be Packaged and Passed Down in Sperm RNA. Sperm donors don't pass on these traits since mRNA is too fragile to survive the storage process. Even one of the researchers said "“It’s still very hand-wavy.” The idea is that certain aspects of a father's fitness might be passed on through microRNAs is intriguing, though.

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5 letter word finder.  Could come in handy. Who knows?

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Having a million word context window may not always be a good thing.  It's called "context rot" and appears when models are given too much context. Even frontier models degrade on tasks like knowledge retrieval. There is context dilution with longer windows. Apparently that final softmax function becomes less reliable when there so many datapoints. It's kinda like with the human brain. Even LLMs stumble when given too much information to chew on. Positioning also matters. Put critical information at the start and end of the query, use RAG for very large corpora, and consider chunking with summarization for documents that exceed reliable limits. Good to know.

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How hackers are fighting back against ICE surveillance tech. I must admit to being conflicted. I don't like surveillance tech, but it's been around for years ever since the Patriot Act was passed and no one complained. Yet people are complaining now because it's being used to identify illegal aliens. That I don't understand. It's a fact that the U.S. has let in a large number of bad boys and we need all we can use to track them and get them out of our society. That's just common sense. Why hackers are opposed to this is baffling. Who do they think they are protecting?

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One prediction shared by several Lorentz-invariance-violating quantum gravity models is that the speed of light may depend slightly on a photon's energy. Any such effect would have to be tiny to match existing experimental limits. However, it could become detectable at the highest photon energies, specifically in very-high-energy gamma rays.
Nope. No observed difference in the speed of light. Einstein is still right.

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Washington state officials have issued a correction after they were caught exaggerating the benefits of state spending to curb climate change. In November, a report from the Washington Department of Ecology said the first two years of auction proceeds would keep more than 8.6 million metric tons of pollution out of the air.

“That’s the equivalent of taking 40% of all gas and diesel vehicles in Washington off the road for a whole year,” an Ecology press release stated.

Yet that claimed carbon benefit was 28 times higher than the reality. According to revised calculations by Ecology, the projects will only keep about 300,000 metric tons of heat-trapping gas out of the air over their lifespans.

That’s less than one-half of 1% of the state’s annual emissions.
It's all B.S. and I'm surprised that the left-wing OPB actually reported it. I guess Katherine Maher's influence is already gone. 

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