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Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

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Re: Natural occurring molecule rivals Ozempic in weight loss, sidesteps side effects

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There's a bunch of "all dunder properties" pages online, any one of them is well worth reading through at least once. So much hidden goodness.

The actual docs on python.org are quite readable and probably a lot more accurate than random blogspam / LLM glurge pages

Why would you assume it's LLM slop when Python's been around for decades? Lots of folks are enthusiastic enough about "Python magic" to have done excellent writeups of literally ever dunder function under the sun on a single page, at a level of detail and excellence that the python documentation, bless its heart, cannot ever hope to match.

- The python docs are there to give you the information you need.

- Passion pages are there to do a deep dive into all the crazy shit you can do with that information =D

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Right, but there is a free rider problem. Why should a company spend $100 million doing clinical trials to get FDA approval if once it is approved, all other companies can sell it, even though they didn't pay anything? Even if every actor in the market thinks there will be a good return on investment if they get FDA approval, there is a strong incentive to instead wait for someone else to do it and free ride on them.…

CBD, which doesn't appear to have a fraction of the therapeutic efficacy of something like Ozempic, is a multi-hundred billion dollar industry now with a lot of active research.

Do you have a source for that? Everything I can find online puts global CBD industry revenue at less than $10 billion. And that's everything. The only FDA approved use of CBD (treating seizures), I'm sure is only a tiny fraction of that.

In any case, none of that refutes that there is a strong economic incentive for market actors to not fund FDA approval trials since any benefit will be shared by the entire market.

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Since it is a natural occurring molecule, and given this report detailing it, does it mean that production could be cheap and easy?

Naturally occurring has little to do with cost of production.

Coral snake venom is naturally occurring and has medicinal uses. $4,000 per gram.

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The RDA is 0.37 g/pound. For a 180 pound guy, that means 67g of protein. That might sound low, but wait... At least according to this one page I found, 25% of American adults eat below RDA. It's not hard to imagine then that there are many people for whom 22g extra could make a decent difference.

0.37g/pound is on the very very low end though, far from optimal on a weight loss diet. See this article: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/high-protein-diet-plan#... > The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) of protein is 0.8 g per kilogram of body weight (g/kg/bw), or 0.36 g per pound of body weight (g/lbs/bw). > However, the authors of a 2019 review suggest that this number is often misinterpreted as the ideal…

Kinda missing the point. For you, supplementing 22g is nothing. For something that is deficient it could be quite a difference maker.

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Is the muscle loss a side effect of the drug or of the weight loss?

It's nearly always a side effect of weight loss, and it's a good thing. It's confusing how people act like it's bad. If you're obese, your legs are enormously strong with crazy amounts of muscle. Have you ever seen someone obese do leg presses at the gym? They can handle tons of weight. When you lose weight, you don't need all that extra muscle . If you're carrying around 180 lbs instead of 300 lbs on your frame, all…

> When you lose weight, you don't need all that extra muscle.

Sure, but what if I want it? Maybe I want to jump extra high, or want to be able to lift things 120lbs heavier than I could before?

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Since it is a natural occurring molecule, and given this report detailing it, does it mean that production could be cheap and easy?

Naturally occurring has little to do with cost of production. Coral snake venom is naturally occurring and has medicinal uses. $4,000 per gram.

I'm sure coral snake venom would be a lot cheaper if coral snake farms were more commonplace.

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I'd imagine many nested named capturing groups may trip even the best automated system! I do like the solution though. I would've probably approached it differently, trying to first get the 'inverted' match (i.e. ignore anything that isn't a currency-like pattern) and refine from there. A bit like this one I did a while back, to parse garbled strings that may occur after OCR [0]. I imagine the approach does not trans…

Thanks for sharing! I have to admit I do not have the necessary brain cycles to spare today, but OCR processing is indeed of interest to me, and I will take a more in-depth look in the upcoming days. The idea of an exclusionary approach sounds interesting as well. I'll have to think about that a bit.

Check out WordNinja in case regex doesn't cut it! [0]

[0]: https://github.com/keredson/wordninja

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Could be that they relied on AI to generate the gnarly regex ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I am still waiting for an LLM trained to focus on effin' regexes and their variants like sed, somebody please do a page with ads for this and you will have a nice little side income and warm fuzzy feeling on top of it. Natural language -> fully working one, I don't mean some email validators but way more complex stuff. Although, I've recently had a case which was too much even for regexes in any form or spec, then so…

I haven’t had the need for super complicated regexes, but ChatGPT and Claude both worked fine to generate a regex to extract markdown code blocks.
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