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I love mine. Being able to snap a pic without getting too far out of the moment, like when I am at a museum or in a beautiful place is great. Even better is being able to snap a pi…

Free Luna!

My understanding of the Shahed's is that they are relatively simple. They can be programmed with a certain destination and then have some basic image recognition that allows them t…

On a tech site, pessimism like this make me sad. I'm a nerd. I have been dreaming of a future where humanity finally takes its place among the stars since I was young enough to hav…

Whitespace forcing proper indentation practices has always been one of my favorite aspects of python. I TA'd a data structures in C++ class and the lack of proper indentation makin…

Interestingly, I read or heard something that said that a fatal flaw in hypersonic in regards to naval combat was that hypersonic speeds create plasma and that the plasma made opti…

But that was a great quarter. You should have seen the bonuses.

I can't read the article. Could someone please point to the research that they are referring to?

Madison is exceptional for a midwestern city. It has a large and excellent state university. Epic is based there and most of FAANG has outposts there to draw the CS talent. Additio…

This is very clearly an attempt to get government employees to quit. They are not shy about stating that. It is hard to fire civil servants, and this is an attempt to get around ci…

As a former smoker, who used patches and gum and such to quit, this doesn't seem surprising. The nicotine patch is far less satisfying than cigarettes. Cigarettes come on strong, i…

There isn’t any symbolysm. The sea is the sea. The old man is an old man. The boy is a boy and the fish is a fish. The shark are all sharks no better and no worse. All the symbolis…

One of Peter Lee's arguments in his AI in medicine book[1] is that the GenAIs (GPT4) actually excel at empathy. He gives a pretty compelling example where the GPT is able to empath…

And my cholesterol goes back up when I stop taking statins. I don’t get this very common argument.

Is that you CommanderTaco?

Interesting. I created Biological Age profiles using multi-omics and we found that GDF15 was also one of the strongest proteomic aging factors. - https://doi.org/10.1093/gerona/glz…

And irony of ironies, Bayer, a German company, purchased Monsanto and is currently stuck with the bill from all the people harmed by glyphosate. Reality is stranger than fiction.

Do you think it might simply be that the subset of Europeans that interact with international clients tend to be well-educated and highly effective. As a scientist, I interact with…

No good deed goes unpunished.

A link to the study referenced if you are interested: https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2101084119

Apparently there is now.

A fellow fan of Peter Attia I see. His latest podcast had a protein expert on that went into great depth about the virtues and drawbacks of different protein sources. Highly recomm…

I'd go with weight loss peptides or nucleotides (so injectables), but yeah, this is coming hard.

Okay, I'm confused. If I'm reading the paper right, it wasn't an 11 percent reduction caused by eliminating transfats. The total reduction was 11 percent, of which 11 percent was a…

I do longevity/healthy aging research and sleep, nutrition, and exercise are by far the most important factors in healthy aging. Everything else can be considered a rounding error …