also the economist :
Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive
the NYT also had a write-up about this recently (linked below). Although it’s interesting, sometimes ‘disruptive’ science is over-hyped and over-valued, whereas incremental science can be under-appreciated.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/science-breakthroughs-disruption.html
but it is an interesting paper recently published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x
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As a way of presenting knowledge, llms promise to take both the practical and personal side of books further, in some cases abolishing them altogether. An obvious application of the technology is to turn bodies of knowledge into subject matter for chatbots. Rather than reading a corpus of text, you will question an entity trained on it and get responses based on what the text says. Why turn pages when you can interrogate a work as a whole?
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https://www.alzheimers.org.uk/about-dementia/risk-factors-and-prevention/cholesterol-and-dementia
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A meta-analysis is a study that looks at lots of previous studies and analyses all of the data together to increase the number of people studied and to look at the information in a consistent way. A meta-analysis looking at observational studies investigating statins and the risk of dementia looked at data from 11 studies, involving over 23,000 participants, who had been taking statins for between 3 and nearly 25 years on average. When all of the data was analysed together, the researchers found that those people taking statins had a 29 per cent reduced risk of developing dementia.
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interesting news about Hinton
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/01/technology/ai-google-chatbot-engineer-quits-hinton.html
https://www.statista.com/chart/24604/number-of-people-launched-into-space-by-year/
was used for:
http://lectures.gersteinlab.org/summary/Genomics-n-DataSci-ENTEX-variant-interpretation–20230509-i0stj/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/04/14/upshot/up-ai-uses.html?name=styln-artificial-intelligence®ion=TOP_BANNER&block=storyline_menu_recirc&action=click&pgtype=Article&variant=undefined
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Organize a messy computer desktop.
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I basically just gave ChatGPT a directory, a list of all my folder names, and the names of all my files.
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Write a wedding speech.
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“A few hours before, I said, ‘Can GPT-3 write this officiant speech?’” he recalled. “The first version was generic, full of platitudes. Then I steered it.”
Adam is a great lover of plants
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Write Excel formulas.
Create new proteins in minutes.
Play with language.
….It’s particularly helpful for bizarre acronyms, like this: Please tell me the words I could use to create the acronym ‘BIBERE’ to identify an organization dedicated to getting together after work to hit the bar — without saying we’re going to the bar in a workplace email.
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