Skip to primary content
Skip to secondary content

Gordon's shares

Pinboard & Comments

Gordon's shares

Main menu

  • Home

Author Archives: jgordon

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Major Oceans Treaty finalized, protects marine life.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. GA needs to vote on it.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

‘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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

In animal studies weight bearing treadmill exercise helps osteoarthritis.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. OA is NOT an overuse disorder.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“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?!?

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Railroad safety soberly explained.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

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

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Israeli Pogrom.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

Link. There was hope for Israel once.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

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.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Nigeria update: lots of corruption.

Posted on March 12, 2023 by jgordon

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

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“if you looked at the returns since 1920 to all stocks ever traded, the return is only slightly above that of T-bills, very short-term and low-interest Treasury securities.”

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The starting point matters a lot.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Selma 58y ago: “That night, a white mob beat to death a Unitarian Universalist minister, James Reeb, who had come from Massachusetts to join the marchers …. Viola Liuzzo, a 39-year-old mother of five who had arrived from Michigan to help after Bloody

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. DeSantis and the Christian Nationalists want to bury this history.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

1995: “… how long the transition from IPv4 to IPv6 would take, from an optimistic six-month rapid cutover to a hopelessly pessimistic view of a protracted ten-year transition”

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. About 1/3 of the way 28y later. Prediction is a mug’s game.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“women who used hormone therapy showed a small increased risk of ovarian cancer. I don’t know if that’s what caused my cancer, but I wish I’d seen this research earlier.”

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. This is why, despite all the literature and pop articles saying we should do it, physicians are very reluctant to treat menopausal symptoms with estrogen. Because we will get blamed.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Common Misconceptions of US-China Competition

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. An excellent framing and corrective.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Aaronson reassures about the near AI future: “I don’t yet know whether I’m on the humans’ side or the alien’s, or both, or neither!”

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. This would not reassure most people. His further efforts are a leap of faith and, for worse and better, the greatest disruption since fire and language.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Silicon Valley Bank run: an odd bank, a normal run.

Posted on March 11, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Simpson reassures. My takeaway, however, was that it was Thiel and SV libertarian ideology.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Informed review of Cochrane mask analysis.

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. 1. Cochrane found there wasn’t good trial data. That’s true. Very hard to study.
2. Jefferson, one of the article contributors, is a bit of a crackpot. (That happens.)

Secondary evidence suggests N95 do protect wearer if worn consistently.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“modern economies: They aren’t nearly as flexible as many people, myself included, had thought”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Krugman surprised. This is important.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“Oklahoma has become the leading source of black-market marijuana for a number of states along the Eastern Seaboard.”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. No legalization but huge “medical” use and vast production.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Noah Simpson writes a technically correct but really dumb article reassuring people about LLMs.

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Yes, if we never couple LLMs to other knowledge models we’ll be ok. Except we did that last year. Who does he talk to?!

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“what Chomsky and his followers are ultimately angry at is reality itself, for having the temerity to offer something up that they didn’t predict”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Was Chomsky always dim? Maybe he just got lucky once and is good at bullshit.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

GOP budget doc: “… titled “A Commitment to End Woke and Weaponized Government,” … manages to mention critical race theory …16 times.”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Pathetic.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“McConnell (R-KY) appealed directly to Fox News founder Rupert Murdoch for political support on the Fox News Channel (FNC). Murdoch passed the requests on to FNC executives…”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “Once they pass this bill we must tell our viewers again and again what they will get”

Biden won’t give Fox anything.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

MindNode collaboration effort failed: “While iCloud seems to provide the required features to the iWork apps, we didn’t find a way from our side to access them.”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Apple private API games. In my life Apple Notes sync also fails periodically. iCloud would embarrass most companies but Apple is shameless.

They are going to try again.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Medicare Advantage: Lack of medigap option means it’s a one way switch. Then when the payors have no competition …

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Cheaper … for the employer.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Kia/Hyundai thefts: “introducing free software upgrades for vulnerable cars — about 4.5 million Kias and 3.8 million Hyundais”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. They don’t have engine immobilizes. Other cars do. Meanwhile, lots of bored kids, maybe not in school or lost post-COVID.

“stolen Kias and Hyundais in Minneapolis were linked to five homicides, 13 shootings, 36 robberies and 265 vehicle accidents last year.”

TikTok driving fashion.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“… a hospital in Kunming … but only those taller than 5-foot-5 — who donated their sperm could receive 4,500 yuan…”

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. China promoting fertility — within limits. (US market driven donor expectations are far more severe.)

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

China tries to influence Chinese-Canadian vote through social media and other pressure.

Posted on March 10, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Canada really bugs Xi.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Like Russia the US and NATO can’t manufacture weapons fast enough to fight prolonged wars.

Posted on March 9, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Presumably China can. Some US weapons likely rely on Chinese manufacturing, but article doesn’t address that. I’m sure corruption and dysfunctional bureaucracy play a role.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Prehistoric Europe: “studies identified at least eight populations, some more genetically distinct from each other than modern-day Europeans and Asians”

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Peoples lost to time. “light-skinned, dark-eyed people to the east, and possibly dark-skinned and blue-eyed people to the west”

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Havana Syndrome: it’s not Russia, China or any technology.

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jgordon

Link. It’s probably a variety of unrelated disorders with a varying psychological component.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Tucker Carlson: “We are very, very close to being able to ignore Trump most nights. I truly can’t wait.”

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jgordon

Link. What a weird man.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Premature Births fell about 4% during COVID lockdowns.

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “pregnant people who were locked down at home might be experiencing lower stress, less air pollution or fewer viral or bacterial infections”

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“there may be lots of genes, but they tend to be locked up in supergenes.” That means complex traits can depend on just a single factor”

Posted on March 8, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Studies of ant genetics.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“Apple’s photo screen savers display only original, unedited images in Photos.”

Posted on March 6, 2023 by jgordon

Link. I can see why this might be true but it also sucks. The article lists several screen savers that are otherwise impossible to find on Apple’s awful App Store.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Apple spam grows.

Posted on March 6, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Tim Cook.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Jan 6: “Murdoch and Hannity and Tucker remain wealthy, while the people who listened to them rot in prison. Trump, infamously, remains untouched, as does every grifter and sycophant who manufactured evidence for their own personal gain.”

Posted on March 6, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Only the dim got punished.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Jeffrey Sachs: “more recently, he appeared as a guest on the podcast of Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Complete intellectual and moral collapse — then he talks to Chotiner. He has a death wish.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“The top 40 percent of earners are sitting on more than a trillion dollars in extra savings amassed during the early part of the pandemic”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jgordon

Link. “premiumization” is a new stupid thing.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“Those were the five great disasters of the 2000s that everyone remembers. But there were also a couple of what I call “slow disasters”…”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jgordon

Link. The 00s sucked for America.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

“If you claim you use a 3-ton truck exclusively for work, you can write it off immediately. All of it. Up to $100,000 (in fact, Congress raised the limit from $25,000 just last year).”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jgordon

Link. When you see crazy behavior always look to taxes.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Jedeed covers a Trump speech: “He doesn’t say flat out that he’d cut off aid to Ukraine, but he did everything but say it.”

Posted on March 5, 2023 by jgordon

Link. Also ending “chemical castration” (what is that?) and reparations for those impacted by woke policies and affirmative action.

Putin is betting his life on Trump.

Posted in share | Tagged pinboard

Post navigation

← Older posts
Newer posts →

Where to comment

Twitter: @jgordonshare
micro.blog: Micro.blog

Meta

  • Log in
  • Entries feed
  • Comments feed
  • WordPress.org

Archives

March 2023
M T W T F S S
 12345
6789101112
13141516171819
20212223242526
2728293031  
« Feb    

Categories

  • admin
  • s
  • share
  • t
  • Uncategorized
  • w
Proudly powered by WordPress