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NYTimes: Tech Bros Hacked Their Diets. Now You May Be Doing It, Too.

April 12, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/03/31/dining/biohacking-diets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share

What Doctors Want You to Know About Supplements – The New York Times

April 12, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/well/doctor-tips-supplements-research.html

Receipt for Order #362 at Le Pain Quotidien – 148 E 65th Street

April 12, 2026

https://www.lepainquotidien.com/ae/en/stores/148:%2065th%20&%20Lexington

Black Lentil Salad $17.00
Smoked Salmon $5.50
Hot Tea $5.00
Small Cappuccino (D) $5.50
Croissant $5.00
12 oz. Glass Sparkling Water $3.75

LDA resources

April 12, 2026

https://www.ibm.com/think/topics/latent-dirichlet-allocation What is Latent Dirichlet allocation | IBM

Blei, D. M., Ng, A. Y., & Jordan, M., I. (2003). Latent dirichlet allocation. https://jmlr.csail.mit.edu/papers/v3/blei03a.html https://www.jmlr.org/papers/volume3/blei03a/blei03a.pdf

GeeksforGeeks. (2025, July 23). Topic modeling using Latent Dirichlet Allocation (LDA). GeeksforGeeks.
https://www.geeksforgeeks.org/nlp/topic-modeling-using-latent-dirichlet-allocation-lda/

Ganegedara, T. (2025, February 2). Intuitive Guide to Latent Dirichlet Allocation. Towards Data Science.
https://towardsdatascience.com/light-on-math-machine-learning-intuitive-guide-to-latent-dirichlet-allocation-437c81220158/

some blogs
https://johaupt.github.io/blog/Topic_modeling_with_Gibbs_sampling_in_R.html https://agustinus.kristia.de/blog/lda-gibbs/

NYTimes.com: My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

April 11, 2026

Carreyrou, J., & Freedman, D. (2026, April 8). Who is Satoshi Nakamoto? My quest to unmask Bitcoin’s creator. The New York Times.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.htm

My Quest to Solve Bitcoin’s Great Mystery

Bitcoin’s creator has hidden behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto for 17 years. But a trail of clues buried deep in crypto lore led to a 55-year-old computer scientist named Adam Back.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/08/business/bitcoin-satoshi-nakamoto-identity-adam-back.html?rsrc=flt&smid=em-share

Short-Term Corporate Bond fund options

April 11, 2026

the two short term options: VGSH & VCSH. Both funds have low fees.

VGSH short term treasury ETF
– 30 day yield is 3.76% with duration of 1.9 years. This fund compares to the existing treasury money market which yields about 3.5%.

VCSH short term corp bond fund
– 30 day yield is 4.47% with duration of 2.7 years.

DNA Identifies 2 Bacterial Killers That Stalked Napoleon’s Army – The New York Times

April 11, 2026

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/10/24/health/napoleon-army-dna-bacteria.html

Advancing precision health discovery in a genetically diverse health system: Cell

April 9, 2026

https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(26)00274-6

Haas, R., Margolis, M. P., Wei, A., Yamaguchi, T. N., Feng, J., Tran, T., Tozzo, V., Queen, K. J., Mootor, M. F. E., Patil, V., Broudy, M. E., Tung, P., Alam, S., Martinez, D. B., Patel, Y., Caggiano, C., Zeltser, N., Hugh-White, R., Arbet, J., . . . Geschwind, D. H. (2026). Advancing precision health discovery in a genetically diverse health system. Cell. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2026.03.007

Epi dataset

AI tools are being prepared for the physical world

April 8, 2026

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/02/25/ai-tools-are-being-prepared-for-the-physical-world

QT:{{”
PROJECT GENIE, an experimental artificial-intelligence model released by Google in January, is a jaw-dropping technical achievement. Give the tool a prompt—an image, say, or a brief snippet of text—and it will generate an interactive world for the user to explore. Type in a straightforward request, and the result is a realistic simulation. Start with a painting by Georges Seurat, by contrast, and you can wander through a Sunday in the park in perfect pointillist style. “}}

Want to hack your body with peptides? If only the science agreed

April 8, 2026

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2026/03/11/want-to-hack-your-body-with-peptides-if-only-the-science-agreed