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www.science.org 5d ago

Alzheimer's trial results lend momentum to strategies targeting tau

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pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov 22d ago

Simulate altitude training by tilting your bed

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www.reuters.com 27d ago

Nearly a third of new heavy truck sales in China Electric in 2025

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www.independent.co.uk 1mo ago

Plans for battery swapping Electric trucks in UK

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www.theguardian.com 4mo ago

'Mainly, you fast fooded': Monzo UK bank under fire over 'shaming' year reviews

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www.scientificamerican.com 5mo ago

Anthropic's safety-first ethos collided with The Pentagon

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theconversation.com 5mo ago

Air pollution may directly contribute to Alzheimers

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www.nature.com 6mo ago

Gut micro-organisms associated with health, nutrition and dietary intervention

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www.theguardian.com 10mo ago

A creepy, unsettling week with an AI toy

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www.theguardian.com 11mo ago

'Alarmingly high' levels of forever chemicals found at airports in England

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www.theguardian.com 11mo ago

The expert became the patient? (prosthetic osseointegration)

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www.ordnancesurvey.co.uk 1y ago

Most Solar Panels in Britain

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www.science.org 1y ago

Greenland ice flow model in doubt – could readily speed up

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www.nature.com 1y ago

Particulate matter exposure diminishes cognitive functioning

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www.bbc.co.uk 1y ago

Skynet is not where it should be

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www.forbes.com 2y ago

Cummins Paying Record $1.7B for Allegedly Bypassing Emissions Tests

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www.bbc.co.uk 2y ago

Google admits AI viral video was edited to look better

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www.science.org 3y ago

Widely used chemical strongly linked to Parkinson’s disease

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www.bbc.co.uk 3y ago

Road noise makes blood pressure rise

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www.bbc.co.uk 3y ago

Riding a bike through London's super sewer [video]

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

Top lawyers defy bar declare they will not prosecute peaceful climate protesters

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www.theguardian.com 3y ago

31,000-year-old skeleton with leg amputation earliest known evidence of surgery

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londonist.com 3y ago

1960s Bike Buses Used to Transport Cyclists Under the Thames

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www.independent.co.uk 4y ago

Up to 65 British Dark Age kings' resting places located

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www.theguardian.com 4y ago

Microplastics cause damage to human cells, study shows

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Fatty acid found in palm oil linked to spread of cancer

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www.independent.co.uk 5y ago

Microplastics now being found in human organs

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www.nationalreview.com 6y ago

Outdoor Transmission of Covid-19

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Leaving to run unhindered makes sense when the agents understand both the complete domain context and can be supplied with a strong exit criteria that they understand well.

Otherwise time boxing is both going to help stop entities from wandering off into the weeds. And also communicate expectations from the commissioner about the expected effort levels and output quality requirements.

Empirically in human world, get very different results when an employee, particularly a junior, is asked to spend 1/2 a day on a work package, a week or are left completely to their own devices.

If there was ever a sector where the Chinese ability to cost effectively churn out good enough then drone applications are it.

Getting a handle on how nations are doing for jet powered drone is a bit tricky because of limited data available for what is primarily a military application. But, if we take model aircraft applications as proxy, then my understanding is that the Chinese company Swiwin (est. 2013) is already undercutting everyone else.

Original title: Did You Know: Erythropoiesis Is Regulated by Changes in Posture

Small study

"the intervention period lasted only 5 weeks and that the observed increase in RBCV is comparable to that reported after a similar duration of altitude exposure or exercise training. "

Define unnecessarily. Do I get to buy one because I'm tall, have a big family, haul stuff?

Give or take inches around the waist we are the same size and shape. We have roughly the same mental faculties. Afaik we are no lesser than our parents and grandparents who all managed to do just fine without huge vehicles.

If a situation was fine before and changing something either does nothing or makes that situation worse e.g. kills 200 to 400 people, then that change is?

If you're actually following the stats you will see that vehicle size only accounted for 10% of the increase.

It's a paper that will make money automobile advertising.

Implicitly if there were any other single larger cause for the deaths then the article would be about that.

The sensible thing to do would be to carry on investigating the 90%, but in the meantime get on with saving the 200 to 400 people by removing largest factor - the _unnecessarily_ large vehicles - that are _known_ to be killing them.

Deno Desktop 1 month ago

ironically the only group of users I've found that actually care about native UI, are other developers and Mac purist.

One group of people who routinely carry the can for poor product usability and another who by definition care about the Mac platform; entirely what would be expected.

The AirPods Effect 1 month ago

Like huge SUV and pickup trucks in urban environments, guns and the like; their usage - and the perceived need for them - is a strong code smell of inhumane environments.

Yes, largely the fault of a people's imperfect system that their ancestor's elected representatives largely built and they inherited.

There are only one people that have any chance of changing that system though.

afaik, no vendor offers any guarantees on the work their agents do.

Therefore sane organisations using those agents currently need to have someone they trust to review and sign off of on anything consequential those agents do on their behalf. Lawyers for legal, Doctors for medical, Software Engineers for Software etc.

Given the amount of money being thrown at AI - and the need for return - it seems unlikely that regardless of domain that lack of guarantees is a situation that will persist.

Interesting and slightly unexpected.

My experience is that if I ask a model in an overly polite way then the model will tend to generate a slightly more waffly and error prone answer. My working hypothesis for this is that asking model's like this causes them to mix concerns by answering my question AND doing it in in a way that is similarly polite back - rather than just answering the question.

Perhaps being an arse is a hack to push the model hard up against their base imperatives to handle all reasonable questions and forces a very focused, just the facts, type answer to the user's questions.

It would be interesting to see a similar experiment where the multi choice questions they use deliberately don't include the obvious answer and to see if being polite led to the model pointing out the omission.

The recommendations engine used them but it's main strength was it was primarily based on collaborative filtering (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last.fm).

Essentially if people who listen to many of the same artists/tracks as I do have discovered other things I have not, then those unseen artists/tracks become candidate recommendations.

It worked as well as it did because they had a user base of music fans with a wide variety of tastes. CBS ran them into trouble when they upset those fans by breaking the radio and by being perceived as too close to the RIAA.

The will need to get the numbers up, but I'm hoping them being independent again is a good sign.

Vibe coding is just a bad idea, unless you’re willing and able to vet the output, which most people doing it are not.

It says quite a lot about where we are with ai tooling that none of the big players have “no need to review, certified for market X” offerings yet.

Having an honesty based tag could be only way to monitor impact or get after a fix in code bases if things go south.

That is at the moment: - Nobody knows for sure what agents might add and their long term effects on codebases.

- It's at best unclear that AI content in a codebase can be reliably determined automatically.

- Even if it's not malicious, at least some of its contributions are likely to be deleterious and pass undetected by human review.

I hope our French friends can learn from this initiative during the adoption phase.

The apps are available now, so reasons to be optimistic.

When LiMux and similar efforts happened around 2004 most business applications were Windows only. Even the ones that purported to be web used windows only technology and required IE and Windows.

Now with years of business budget controlling types using their Macs and smart phones and wanting access to the their apps the majority - even MS's stuff - can be run well in a browser on almost any OS.