Healthy lifestyle could counteract effects of life-shortening genes – UPI.com

November 16, 2024

https://www.upi.com/Health_News/2024/04/29/long-life-bad-genes/3351714421196/

QT:{{”
However, “it is quite notable that the four highlighted lifestyle factors did not include alcohol consumption, which one might have expected to be among the top factors,” said Mark Gerstein, a professor of biomedical informatics and data science at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Conn.

Gerstein nonetheless highlighted “the immense value of the UK Biobank, a resource assembled by the British government. This paper heavily relies on this primary data resource, which stands as a major testament to its significance.”
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Scaling Laws for Neural Language Models

November 16, 2024

https://arxiv.org/pdf/2001.08361

Jared Kaplan ∗
Johns Hopkins University, OpenAI
jaredk@jhu.edu
Sam McCandlish∗
OpenAI
sam@openai.com
Tom Henighan
OpenAI
henighan@openai.com
Tom B. Brown
OpenAI
tom@openai.com
Benjamin Chess
OpenAI
bchess@openai.com
Rewon Child
OpenAI
rewon@openai.com
Scott Gray
OpenAI
scott@openai.com
Alec Radford
OpenAI
alec@openai.com
Jeffrey Wu
OpenAI
jeffwu@openai.com
Dario Amodei
OpenAI
damodei@openai.com


23andMe Lays Off 40% of Staff, Shuts Drug Development Business – WSJ

November 16, 2024

https://www.wsj.com/tech/biotech/23andme-to-cut-workforce-by-40-discontinues-therapeutics-pipeline-8c818729


Remember That DNA You Gave 23andMe? – The Atlantic

November 16, 2024

https://www.theatlantic.com/health/archive/2024/09/23andme-dna-data-privacy-sale/680057/


What happens to all of 23andMe’s genetic DNA data? : NPR

November 16, 2024

https://www.npr.org/2024/10/03/g-s1-25795/23andme-data-genetic-dna-privacy


OSD advises service members against using DTC genetic testing | Article | The United States Army

November 16, 2024

https://www.army.mil/article/232314/osd_advises_service_members_against_using_dtc_genetic_testing


All 23andMe board members but CEO resign over no adequate buyout offers | Technology | The Guardian

November 16, 2024

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2024/sep/18/23andme-directors-resign


Star Wars: The Force Awakens – Wikipedia

November 16, 2024

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Star_Wars:_The_Force_Awakens


Frank Stella Clothiers has been a purveyor of fine men’s clothing on the West Side of New York since 1976 . Contemporary meets classic at Frank Stella: from tail…

November 16, 2024

https://frankstellanyc.com/

Frank Stella Clothiers has been a purveyor of fine men’s clothing on the West Side of New York since 1976. Contemporary meets classic at Frank Stella: from tail…

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Frank Stella Clothiers

This is the place for Mason pants — and it’s on the UWS


Crystal Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Patterns with Generative Machine Learning | Journal of the American Chemical Society

November 14, 2024

https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/jacs.4c10244

Riesel, E. A., Mackey, T., Nilforoshan, H., Xu, M., Badding, C. K., Altman, A. B., Leskovec, J., & Freedman, D. E. (2024). Crystal Structure Determination from Powder Diffraction Patterns with Generative Machine Learning. Journal of the American Chemical Society. https://doi.org/10.1021/jacs.4c10244

seems to use a form of “steered diffusion” to match the powder pattern