Why AI Is Better than Doctors at the Most Human Part of Medicine. Is AI really more empathetic than human doctors? Not really. They can mimic an emphathetic human, but this is only during the chat session. Once the chat closes, the model has no memory. Who are you, again? Don't be fooled.
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A nucleus in the brainstem has been found to have functionality it wasn't known to have before. It's the red nucleus, and it coordinates motor function planning, and responding to rewards. Something called salience. We're still discovering things about the human body.
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Heh. Trump is going to issue an EO that will force states to buy new voting machines or else manually count the ballots. Yes! It's time we got rid of the flawed, leaky, compromised Dominion voting machines, and use machines that are verifiable and can't be easily hacked. Great move, and will ensure that elections are trustworthy. Of course, this will cost money and the Blue states are screaming. This will force them to abandon spending money on illegals. This is important.
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Why Mozilla is failing. They really should not be paying their CEO that much money, and use it to build a better browser, like people think the money is being used for. I'm still using LibreWolf.
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Too many adults are clueless on how to be adults, and need to take classes. How in the world did this happen? Are adults so infantilized today? From their protesting and online commentary, you would think that they sure got it all figured out. Are we talking about the same people?
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Another article touting the benefits of universal basic income. First of all, these were Germans. Not applicable to the United States, where much of that money would probably be misspent. Second, these article always don't follow-up long enough. Sure, everyone is happy in the beginning. But follow them long enough, and see if you've just bred a new dependency class. UBI is another non-scalable concept – good in the small, limited, and controlled setting, but not applicable to general society. All they can conclude is that it worked for them. That's it.
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Anthropic and OpenAI are now free to embrace freedom of speech, now that Biden is no longer in power. No more pledges to "avoid bias and discrimination", which generally was code for silencing anyone who criticized CRT and transgender ideology. Let the people judge.
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Half the men in Seattle are never-married singles, census data shows. How sad. The commenters are eager to pass on advice like, get off the computer, or go to dance class, etc. The real reason is that young men have been trained to think they are just creepy perverts who need to stop bothering modern women. And modern women of dating age in Seattle are more likely than ever to be very far-left. This is the sign of a culture in decline.
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Do you dare ditch your iPhone case? I'd still use a case, especially as the new iPhones will be aluminum instead of titanium. The metal will be softer.
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How to choose a modular synth. When I was young, I dreamed of owning a large modular synth. But now, I am a plug-in guy, and use DAWs. Recreating a patch would be so onerous, for one thing. And so the music that comes out of modular synths tends to be just ambient stuff, repeating things over and over. If you like that sort of thing. But the rest of us would like to create a different kind of music, with more complexity and variability, and less mechanical and automated sounding.
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Blue Origin's brief space venture has return safely. Nice publicity for Bezos, since SpaceX has been getting nearly all of the media exposure recently. But the real celebrity, to me, is Amanda Nguyen. Wow, why is she not more famous?
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A Dutch neurologist, Bas Bloem, thinks that Parkinson's disease stems from pesticides, specifically paraquat. It may be one cause, but probably not the only one.
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This article says that dementia is more common in married men than unmarried men. The author is "living single" – think she might be biased against marriage? Anyway, it always pays to read the research article directly. What you'll find is that the study population is from people who signed up for a dementia study with the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center.
First, the study used data from the National Alzheimer's Coordinating Center (NACC), one of the largest cohorts with annual clinical evaluation of dementia over one of the longest follow-ups (up to 18 years). The NACC is an ongoing longitudinal study that has enrolled > 50,000 participants, with some up to 19 annual visits. Referral-based or volunteer participants were recruited from > 42 ADRC across the United States. Since 2005, the Uniform Data Set (UDS) has been collected annually (within a ± 6-month window) using a standardized protocol for all participants by trained clinicians or clinic staff.
Doesn't sound like a random person in the U.S. How were these people identified for participation? Did they have relatives with Alzheimer's dementia? If so, there may be other factors going on. Interestingly, the Psychology Today writer doesn't mention this. Instead, she attributes the dementia risk to single people being better able to maintain social ties. C'mon.....
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Adipose tissue has an epigenetic memory for obesity. Once you become obese, there are epigenetic changes that produce transcriptional differences that don't resolve after weight loss. This promotes rebound obesity. The authors identified 4 histone modifications seen in adipose tissue of obese patients, which they suspect drives the change. I wonder how long it takes to be obese for these changes to occur.
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Time to use Uber? Lyft now records the conversations you have in the car while you're riding. What a world we live in today.
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Here's a disturbing article. OpenAI's rise has felt very dot-commish to me, and apparently others feel so, too. How will OpenAI become profitable? Is this why Nadella has been a bit distant with OpenAI recently? If the company goes down, the impact will be felt by Microsoft, Softbank, NVIDIA, and Oracle. Coreweave is a minor player, and much like the empty Chinese datacenters rusting away that no one uses, it will probably just be written off.
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