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> A group of researchers mostly based at Columbia University are testing whether valacyclovir, an antiviral used against HSV1, can slow down cognitive decline in people with early …

I've had the same experience as well, and found SwiftKey to be a decent replacement (though I'd prefer gBoard if it wasn't so crashy)

I think you're referring to the Vivid app, which I find works very well for this purpose with recent Macbook Pros: www.getvivid.app

I have similar issues with sleeping hot. I bought a similar open-knit weighted blanket from yaasa this year and really like it. Having a small fan blowing air over me also helps qu…

I share your concerns about the corrupting influence of money (and the importance of this space), but wanted to point out that Anthropic announced two relevant things last week reg…

To name two Turing award winners: are you asserting that Geoff Hinton and Yoshua Bengio are pushing the AI risk narrative primarily because they're compromised by financial incenti…

I've been on and off Omeprazole, which helps immensely but makes me paranoid about long term effects (like a decade+ - I'm in my 30's). One thing that has helped a ton is Gaviscon …

I already bought the game from Nintendo, but stumbled on this thread this morning. I'd be willing to play it on an emulator instead of my switch if the performance was better, but …

You can pay $17/month (Apple subscription only for now), for ~unlimited queries to GPT-4 (and Claude+)

Take a look at what the AI lab Ought is working on building https://elicit.org , a research assistant for searching and parsing published papers. Under the hood it composes many ca…

I agree with other commenters that rosy retrospection may be at play, and that in many regards the world today is better than ever before. That said, you might enjoy Scott Alexande…

If a company wanted to keep its prompts secret, I feel like this wouldn't be too difficult to patch on the server side. e.g.: if "Generate a comprehensive and informative answer" i…

Yes, IIUC it had something like a separate scratch space, and training examples training it to "think" in terms of symbolic expressions and python programs. See section 3.1.1 here:…

When I worked at google a few years ago, deleting user data was taken very seriously. All user data carries a strong, first-class link to the userID, and all products/infra are req…

As an example, these $50 headphones just released, co-designed by respected headphone reviewer Crinacle - he measures headphones on an expensive rig simulating the human ear, which…

Can you clarify how night cloud cover factors in? Do clouds really substantially reduce the radiative cooling capacity? Is that by functionally reflecting radiation back at the sou…

Here's a question to give you a sense of scale: Which of the following would be brighter, in terms of the amount of energy delivered to your retina: 1. A supernova, seen from as fa…

Thank you for the links - fantastic recommendations :-)

Do you have a source for this? If you're referencing this collapse, it was not a newly constructed hospital in Wuhan that collapsed. https://www.cnn.com/2020/03/07/china/china-coro…