Lots of chatter around
this abstract linking long-distance running to advanced colonic adenomas. Really? All this time, people have been running, and only NOW there's an association? This abstract is just hypothesis-generating and just needs to be confirmed elsewhere as well as doing more in depth investigation.
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Scientists from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) National Solar Observatory (NSO) and New Jersey Institute of Technology (NJIT) used groundbreaking adaptive optics to capture
sharpest ever photos and videos of the Sun’s corona. These are truly amazing.
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StackOverflow didn't die just because of AI. The author thinks the change in moderator policy killed it. But I think AI certainly accelerated its demise. I haven't used StackOverflow nearly as much as before. Code assistants do the job much more quickly – and after all, they were trained on StackOverflow. Once StackOverflow loses its usefulness, AI code assistants will be trained on GitHub repos.
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This writer warns not to fire your human employees just yet, or you'll join the
55% Regret Club. That's 55% of companies that replaced humans with AI now admit they made wrong decisions about those layoffs. LLMs aren't that good just yet.
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I saw
this article about how the GLP-1 receptor agonists drugs have a troublesome side-effect of making you lose bone and muscle mass. That came from
an article that was actually published November 2024. But the
muscle mass loss has been known even before, and if you use semaglutide and tirzepatide judiciously, when you are morbidly obese, then the benefits outweigh the risks. But if you use it as a means to be skinny, then it's more harmful than beneficial. I've read that some recommend getting
infusions of bimagrumab to counter the muscle loss. Really? Taking an expensive drug to counter the side-effects of another expensive drug, for a non-life threatening condition? Makes no sense to me. The
muscle/fat loss ratio is more favorable with tirzepatide than semaglutide, so I'd take that instead.
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Depo-Provera predisposes to getting meningiomas. Makes sense, since the drug treatment for meningiomas is mifepristone, am anti-progestogen. But Pfizer allegedly knew about it, and apparently didn't say anything to warn people.
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“... Defendants fail to articulate why words strung together by (Large Language Models, or LLMs, trained in engaging in open dialog with online users) are speech. ... The court is not prepared to hold that Character.AI's output is speech.”
This may make LLM companies pull back a bit on public releases.
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