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Daily Archives: March 12, 2023

Alcohol Bans for Aboriginal Australian communities reinstated.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The writing is poor; it’s not a ban on serving aboriginal people, it’s community based. I believe some US First People communities have had similar limits, but i think they were set by tribal authorities.

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Heart-Thymus Transplant success – promise for future child organ transplants with immune tolerance.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Child lacked functioning thymus, Hope is will work for all and for other than heart.

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1979 – a contagious meme outbreak in high school students: “people were yelling and screaming that they were possessed”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Much of “Havana Syndrome”, and *some* Long COVID likely similar cause.

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Major Oceans Treaty finalized, protects marine life.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. GA needs to vote on it.

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‘Dark Matter Big Bang’: “… we found that dark matter formation could have occurred as long as one month after …”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. It might be testable.

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The Unhealthiest Dog Breeds.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. 30y ago I wondered why there wasn’t more demand for long-lived dogs. Now I think I know why.

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Connectome of fruit fly larva published.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. 12y work, but next one will be much faster. As befits an evolved system the connections don’t follow human logic. They do resemble artificial neural networks.

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I ask ChatGPT about the next step: NLP and domain-specific knowledge modules.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. A better answer than 99% of the online comments on ChatGPT.

But don’t worry. It will be fine.

#AI #beAfraid #buckleUpButterCup

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“There’s now serious doubt that you can do anything useful in macOS without access to the internet.”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Unfortunate.

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In animal studies weight bearing treadmill exercise helps osteoarthritis.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. OA is NOT an overuse disorder.

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“The truth on inflation has gotten harder to discern, and that fog isn’t something a clash of egos is going to clear away.”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. If economies are truly less flexible than we thought they were then trade disruptions will have a bigger than expected effect.

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FBI “whistleblowers” are Trumpista conspiracy whackos likely fired for insurrection support.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. For the right accusation is confession.

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“Fox board member and former House speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-WI) warned them “that Fox News should not be spreading conspiracy theories,” but they ignored him. “

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Paul Ryan is not utterly insane?!?

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Railroad safety soberly explained.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Improvement will be expensive. GOP will only make it harder.

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Europe still has it: “half of the shortfall in gas supply was met simply by sourcing gas from various sources outside Europe, chartering tankers to bring it to Europe as LNG (liquid natural gas), and building huge new facilities in European ports …”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. An extraordinary win.

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Israeli Pogrom.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. There was hope for Israel once.

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Machine learning “…. produced 40,000 deadly new virtual molecules within six hours. Some resembled VX and other existing nerve poisons, but “others occupied a region of molecular property space that was entirely separate …”

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Research for a group that does risk assessment on non-nuclear WMDs.

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Nigeria update: lots of corruption.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. In the 70s there was optimism about Nigeria.

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