Link. Psychiatric diagnostic categories don’t work very well. Including “autism”.
Daily Archives: February 24, 2021
“The Cherokee and other Native American nations originally in the South had purchased enslaved Black people as laborers in the 18th and 19th centuries, and had brought them along when they were driven westward by white settlers.”
Link. Promises were broken.
“Twelve hours before that instructor experienced his first symptoms, he held several small kickboxing sessions and a personal training session. Of 11 people exposed, 10 became infected “
Link. 1 went to ICU. Heck of an attack rate!
Double disk world map.
Link. “Cartographers who regularly study world maps — perhaps fewer than 10 people — will now have time to react.”
COVID Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ages 6-12
Link. “Black children appeared to be at greater risk for developing the inflammatory syndrome than the acute illness.”. Usually these differences turn out to be environmemtal rather than genetic.
“To enable Cinematic photos on existing pictures that were not taken in multi-view stereo, we trained a convolutional neural network with encoder-decoder architecture to predict a depth map”
Link. Age of wonders.
“Apple should take a long hard look at Mail and the way that it does nothing to protect users’ privacy from these trackers.”
Link. Pixel trackers in email. Even Outlook does better.
“If we burn lots of calories with, for instance, physical activity, we burn fewer with some other biological system, such as reproduction or immune responses.”
Link. We believe exercise helps with overactive immune systems. I never thought of the caloric aspects though. I don’t entirely believe this research but I am persuadable.
“fixated for years on the notion that alien reptiles who inhabited underground tunnels controlled the earth”
Link. I think in studies of mass stress about 1/10 to 1/3 of hunans are mentally robust. The human brain is a radical evolutionary hack that needs another million years of work.
COVID reduced Japan deaths.
Link. Indirectly. Suicide rates up. Expect mortality jump as Japan returns to normalcy.