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Rubbish. https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080102134129.h...

But peroxide is not just some random thing like bleach. It's generated internally from superoxide dismutase in the normal process of scavenging radicals and is also an immune signalling mechanism. As mentioned, it is reduced by a reaction catalyzed by peroxidase so the body "knows" how to shunt it around safely and reduce it when necessary. It's perfectly safe in appropriate dilution on scrapes, cuts etc. The key is not to overwhelm the antioxidant defenses. Lung tissue is much more delicate, but it's not ridiculous to suggest that a very low concentration might be worth testing.

Peroxide is directly virucidal through oxidation of the lipid envelope and RNA degradation. Whether lymphocytes would be activated in lung tissue in vivo is entirely speculative.

The dose makes the poison.

There are also those proponents of nebulizing (dilute) peroxide. While I wouldn't try this myself, peroxide modulates lymphocytes and would surely result in a decrease in viral load. Peroxide is not unknown to the body, given the various endogenous peroxidases that catalyze it. Dilution would seem to be critical, though. I have wondered whether it wasn't worth some controlled studies, if they haven't happened already (shrug)

The deafening silence regarding the fudged OPCW reports is an indictment on most outlets (WP is mentioned explicitly): https://www.moonofalabama.org/2018/07/syria-many-media-lie-a... https://caitlinjohnstone.com/2019/12/15/deluge-of-new-leaks-...

Bloomberg is unique in being somewhat independent of the AP-AFP-Reuters stranglehold that is described with appropriate skepticism here: https://swprs.org/the-propaganda-multiplier/

It would be interesting if that independence were regarded as a threat.

It's undoubtedly aimed at musical audio generation and signal processing. A quick search will reveal the number of gotchas in implementing even a simple alias-free (bandlimited interpolation) digital sawtooth wave, never mind arbitrary wave tables. The rebirth of analog audio synths was partially driven by the complex behaviors of real analog circuitry - particularly when you account for saturation, hysteresis and other "imperfections" that don't occur naturally in a digital simulation.

I am becoming tired of the word "curated" unless it is being used in a context implying a qualified curator. This could be someone's random list of browser links for all I know. Who are the curators of this list and how are they qualified for me to are about their "curated" list? I don't necessarily mean formal qualifications. Also, curation implies active and personal involvement (as opposed to passive analysis based on statistical measures of relevance or citations). Why in this case would I prefer personal curation?

The wispy, near transparent spectacles in some of them are a bit of a give away...

I wonder how many of those who run for public office would willingly present results of such a scan... I would bet money that that particular demographic would show an interesting trend.

The correct way to counter disinformation is with information. This does assume a sufficiently aware populace able to process its own confirmation bias (which is actually a learnable skill). Sometimes it takes incrementally more information and that's okay.

Widespread availability of high quality media capture and technologies such as facial manipulation will inevitably lead to a future with many, many unverifiable snippets that go viral. This video is unique in that verification is possible, but the future will likely hold far more unverifiable content than otherwise. It is more positive to expect that humans will gain the ability to balance disinformation in the face of further information than to expect that benign dictators will censor perfect knowledge into cognisance.

I have taken several CDs (mainly my Dad's, not my own) from unusably scratched to relatively pristine. The really bad cases need fine grit sandpaper (wet!) followed by plastic polishes. I generally start with Meguiar's plastic polish and work my way to Radtech Ice Creme. In my own collection I have CDs that are around 30 years old and are error-free. I'm not interested in formats or services that won't last at least as long or can't be backed up to my own NAS (nor am I interested in anything less than Red Book quality).

Assange himself and the rape charges have been politicized to such an extent that I find it essentially meaningless to pontificate about what may or may not have happened in Sweden. His character has been debated endlessly, but when one thinks of what WikiLeaks has actually revealed, I find it totally likely that a systematic effort was made to curtail him: https://twitter.com/SomersetBean/status/1116916146458877952/...

The cynical answer is that sleep medications (and I mean the more highly scheduled varieties) are among the biggest pharmacological money spinners. Melatonin is cheap and unpatentable (although there was several attempts at melatonin mimetics, e.g. agomelatine). It's unfathomable that melatonin is available only on prescription (and has become increasingly hard to obtain). I think the toxicity is close to water... one would be more likely to gag on the number of pills necessary to O.D. and I'm not sure if there's even a single melatonin related death on record.

The way I heard it is that the U.S. could not domestically provide an off the shelf end-to-end 5G solution. In addition, Huawei had at some point declined to install NSA backdoors. This was essentially the backdrop that led to Huawei being tarred and feathered.

I remember the hysteria regarding aluminum cookware when higher levels of aluminum were discovered in the brains of those who had had Alzheimer's disease. Then it turned out that the aluminum content may simply have been an effect of the disease, not a cause (and aluminum cookware was once again declared, for the most part, safe). Now, with this new finding, I wonder if part of the Alzheimer's pathogenesis isn't a leaky brain-blood barrier or something similar that allows substances that shouldn't be in the brain through?

At the same time, this pales in comparison to what took place under the Spartan agoge system (at least to modern minds): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Agoge

For me, the question of consciousness is more than a question of pure mechanism. The mystery for me is the particularity/locality of experience. It's one thing to say that we have encountered these thousands of clocks, and here is exactly how they work (mechanism). It's far more mysterious to find one's entire experience suddenly located at the epicenter at one clock in particular - with seemingly no access to similar experience of other clocks. The issue of particularity is the real problem for me. And I can't see how claiming that it is imaginary helps - it's my most convincing experience.

I find Bellingcat about as credible as Crowdstrike... a lot of solid, interesting evidence, and then a tail end of questionable conclusions that seem out of character.

This is why the "STEPS Toward the Reinvention of Programming" (a.k.a. 20k Lines of Code) Project was important. It was spearheaded by computing luminary Alan Kay with help from some very impressive researchers.

The final report is available here: http://www.vpri.org/pdf/tr2012001_steps.pdf

I haven't kept up with subsequent research the Institute has produced. I do know they had an aversion to producing software artifacts and were far more concerned with the written reports (which in some senses restricted the ability of amateurs like me to play with the interesting output by the group). I did play with OMeta (a meta-parser) and the COLA / Id code - which was enlightening!

I wonder if they're aware of Ian Piumarta's Maru and Cola (http://www.piumarta.com/software/) - which are also tiny and self-compiling (although use C and IA32 as a basis, not JS).

You ought to watch "Zero Theorem" for some comic reflection...

That aside, I think work has been debased because the values of currencies have been debased by central banks. The 1% fully and significantly invested in the stock market may be feeling somewhat differently, though.

Also, I think to some extent that the tech dreams promised by my childhood have largely been replaced by corporate simulacra that are in no way as satisfying.

Err, the Parallel Computing Toolbox for MATLAB is specifically designed for cluster computing, multicore processing, GPUs, etc.

As much as I detest the MATLAB licensing reaming (and sometimes the inelegance of the language itself), there is very little out there approaching the sheer depth of the associated toolboxes and Simulink models.

I am as tired of hearing "curated" as I am of "artisanal".

Both are effectively becoming meaningless and set my pretentiousness detector on high alert.

I love the idea of self driving cars but it scares me that no one seems to remember the history of the 5th Generation project (I was a kid in the 80s) and other AI hype-dreams over the years. It has always been the case that approximate solutions can be found for 85% of cases, which has given the illusion of a nearly solved problem.

There is a lot of hype regarding deep learning, but I have struggled to find a concise definition apart from the fact that it is now relatively easy to work with monstrously big networks. Backprop and related algorithms have been around for decades. From what I remember of neural nets, one huge drawback was that they would be close to un-debuggable. The learning contained in the net would be inscrutable to a human, to all intents and purposes. Failure data could be recorded and replayed, but any actual reason for failure would frequently not be found. So, tweak the network, resize some layers and try again... I can think of several reasons why that's fundamentally unsuitable to the problem of driving.

I was in Egypt recently, and the sheer amount of lane crossing, merging, pedestrians ducking through multiple lanes of traffic, roadside obstacles, donkey-drawn vehicles etc would be 100% impervious to even a level 3 solution today. I believe the same would be true in India and many other parts of Africa.

So, I really hope that we are not falling blindly into another 5th Generation sinkhole here. History should have taught us better.