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If this is so, why do I find (for scientific research on biomedicine topics, primarily) that Claude’s results are much better than say Gemini’s? I hear the same opinion from others…

What is a terminal reader? Runs in the shell? Newsblur has that? I use their web and iOS interfaces.

Might be related to neck stiffness on very cold nights.

It is Facebook. I expected exactly this from smart glasses made by them. You can’t change the DNA of a company.

Pinterest - the sewer of internet image search

The ability to (1) block all Pinterest domains in image search and (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file - these two features alone are worth my annual subscrip…

Techmeme Ongoing (Tim Bray) On My Om (Om Malik) Rest of World Sherwood.news Stephen Wolfram’s blog

Acquired Scamfluencers Business Wars The Social Radars Big Technology Podcast

This should be a badge of honor, a rite of passage for companies: when they become big and important enough for humanity, RMS will write a negative .html page on his website.

The virus lies dormant in spinal and cranial ganglia for decades. If it reactivates, the immune system suppresses it, in the meantime. Past age 50-60, immunity wanes and these reac…

I came here to note the same.

This (attribution) is exactly the issue that was mentioned by LexisNexis CEO in a recent The Verge interview. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/807136/lexisnexis-ceo-sean-...

Absolutely. This is the correct way do this. It should be adjusted downwards to account for inflation, not up.

Someone should start a StallmanGPT that writes regular blogposts on “Don’t use ”. See if readers can tell those apart from the real website.

Link to iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-news/id6748314243

Where is this setting in Perplexity?

Some of these imaging that are overdone in India involve radiation: the most problematic being (not low dose) CT. So there is a rationale for controlling these modalities.

Fastmail and HEY email, Kagi, 1Password, Newsblur, Perplexity, Wolfram (Mathematica), Zotero, Dropbox, Backblaze, Microsoft Office, Raindrop.io, Wachete (track changes on webpages)…

It’s called kagi.com

They did “pay” $14B to the CEO of ScaleAI. $100M sounds plausible, relatively.

Can’t wait to have 3D “personalized” ad billboards follow me everywhere and “pause” my walking directions until I watch a 30-second unskippable commercial. The VR glasses future is…

That’s not what has been happening with DiscovEHR and Regeneron Genetics Center data.

Still doesn’t work for me.

According to NYT, “ of the $9 billion in federal funding that Harvard receives, with $7 billion going to the university’s 11 affiliated hospitals in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., in…

Harvard affiliated hospitals are dependent on NIH funding for survival. Wonder if they are included in the scope of this.