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

Post by genewitch » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 7:11 AM UTC

Izkata wrote: post #282

jcl wrote: post #135

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It only looks for a single leading “e” or “i”, not any number. I’m guessing those tweaks were added to capture specific proper nouns that weren’t captured by simpler “leading capital letter” regexes, like “iPad” or “eBay”.

"*" is "0 or more" and "+" is "1 or more", it looks for any number of "e" or "i" at the beginning and at least one capital letter. The diagram below the regex is wrong. Instead of [ie]*-?[A-Z]+ it looks like they wanted [ie]?-?[A-Z]

Post by genewitch » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 7:17 AM UTC

yesbabyyes wrote: post #130

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One thing I always appreciated about CoffeeScript was its [heregex syntax]( https://coffeescript-cookbook.github.io/chapters/regular_exp... ), which made regexes clear and easy to document. Many CoffeeScript constructs were adopted into JavaScript and TypeScript, but unfortunately, heregexes weren't among them.

I agree. I'm pretty sure jashkenas got it from Ruby, which got it from Perl, with the `/x` flag (for extended regular expressions). Later languages have added support for the `x` flag, including C# and Rust. There is also a stage 1 proposal for JavaScript: https://github.com/tc39/proposal-regexp-x-mode

Post by genewitch » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 7:20 AM UTC

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my grandma always said her knee hurts when it's about to rain

Not sure what this adds, I believe your grandma over any LLM

Post by genewitch » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 7:25 AM UTC

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There’s negative cardiovascular effects from excess muscle just as with excess fat. Normally that’s offset by the health effects of the exercise required to gain and maintain them as well as the lack of medical conditions that prevent exercise etc. But a fat person losing weight should inherently lose muscle mass long term assuming no changes to lifestyle.

I was looking for this comment! Not a doctor, but as I understand it muscle is roughly equivalent to fat as far as your heart’s workload is concerned. I thought I also read that muscle movement helps with blood return.

Post by genewitch » Sat, Mar 08, 2025, 7:32 AM UTC

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Even so, competition from other GLP-1 drugs and generic semaglutide should make prices and profits lower.

If the companies combined can meet demand