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The article was written, from soup to nuts, by AI. I suspect the person who threw his byline on it barely glanced at the text.

Unfortunately, the equipment and reagent vendors in the very unregulated life sciences/biomedical research world constitute a racket. Serial buyouts over the last 10 - 15 years hav…

NMDA receptor encephalitis is usually associated with a particular ovarian tumor, so the first thing I did on seeing this article was to check if the author is male or female (he's…

> Can you elaborate? What's unique about the nations for which democracy isn't the best form of government? What's unique about their people? Not the person you responded to, but f…

Well, mainly in the fact that Anna's has several orders of magnitude more books, and includes research publications and more, ah, contemporary materials to boot.

I love Project Gutenberg, don't get me wrong... but frankly, Anna's is better.

Methinks someone's experimenting with a botnet -- "can we bypass HN's checks and balances to get an entirely-irrelevant topic to the front page, and keep it there for x hours?"

Somewhat ironically, he'd spent the last years of his life working on prolonging life [1], and was selling a $25,000 "proactive healthcare service" consultation to anyone who could…

In case anyone wondered, the title is a play on the Isaac Asimov book "The End of Eternity": https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_End_of_Eternity

You've had enough arguments with people in both this thread and the previous that I'm pretty sure you understand what the issue is with your use of the word "free". What you are of…

As do most of the associated comments. I think we're surrounded by bots.

I really wish those offering speech-to-text models provided transcription benchmarks specific to particular fields of endeavor. I imagine performance would vary wildly when using j…

The actual paper (open access): https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/202...

> These are the important bits for the non medical folks Also significantly: "vaccinated individuals consistently had a lower risk of death, regardless of the cause."

A bit tangential and pedantic, but: > At the heart of the problem is the tendency for AI language models to confabulate, which means they may confidently generate a false output th…

> I'm happy to see the move. Codeberg is probably a more stable/long-term solution than SourceHut as the founder is slightly unhinged What's this about?

Some thoughts regarding Mozilla's leadership. Certain aspects of human nature, as they apply to the corporate world, can be acknowledged and understood, even if they're not excuses…

Interesting work. Some thoughts: First, your business model isn't really clear, as what you've described so far sounds more like a research project than a go-to-market premise. Com…

Heh...this is a shady study if I ever saw one. -- Exactly 400 study participants recruited. -- Exactly 193 of 200 participants completing the study in each group (which, for a stud…

A little bit off topic, but even after years of active interest, I'm still amazed by the complexity of the human immune system. Imagine this: we are all born with a functional immu…