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The world is making impressive progress averting cancer

August 15, 2025

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2025/07/17/the-world-is-making-impressive-progress-averting-cancer the war on cancer economist

Hidden Inside Our Electronics, Tiny Doodles From Another Era – The New York Times

August 13, 2025

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/12/technology/silicon-chips-doodles.html

‘Another DeepSeek moment’: Chinese AI model Kimi K2 stirs excitement

August 13, 2025

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02275-6

New NIH Rules

August 12, 2025

Fearful of AI-generated grant proposals, NIH limits scientists to six applications per year
Some critics of the new policy say the cap could hinder researchers in need of funding
https://www.science.org/content/article/fearful-ai-generated-grant-proposals-nih-limits-scientists-six-applications-year

Random number generator seed mistakes & how to seed an RNG

August 10, 2025

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2016/01/29/random-number-generator-seed-mistakes/

Scientists Found a Ghost Code Hidden in the Human Genome

August 10, 2025

https://www.popularmechanics.com/science/health/a65478310/junk-dna-mer11/

r414-reprint.pdf – Simpson’s paradox

August 9, 2025

chrome-extension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://ftp.cs.ucla.edu/pub/stat_ser/r414-reprint.pdf

American Statistician, 68(1):8-13, February 2014. TECHNICAL REPORT R-414 Comment: Understanding Simpson’s Paradox Judea PEARL

Causal Analysis in Theory and Practice » Lord’s Paradox: The Power of Causal Thinking

August 9, 2025

https://causality.cs.ucla.edu/blog/index.php/2019/08/13/lords-paradox-the-power-of-causal-thinking/

Goodreads & Amazon reviews

August 6, 2025

Goodreads & Amazon reviews

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3990715575

https://www.amazon.com/review/R23LOUDQ5JELVC/ref=pe_123899240_1043597390_SRTC0204BT_cm_rv_eml_rv0_rv

Scientists rewrite life’s code to create virus-resistant bacteria

August 4, 2025

https://interestingengineering.com/science/recoded-ecoli-syn57-genetic-code?utm_source=tldrnewsletter