Posts Tagged ‘x57s’

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

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

Oral Semaglutide: How It Works, Side Effects, & More | Ro

March 29, 2026

https://ro.co/weight-loss/oral-semaglutide/
a new pill

Huntington disease – PubMed

March 29, 2026

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/27188817/

ASO v RNAi v siRNA

QT:{{”

how a specific toxic conformation might be favoured
within the expanded polyQ of monomeric HTT exon1
is unclear37,47. More-complex conformational effects in
monomeric HTT exon1 linked to polyQ repeat length
are formally possible but challenging to establish37,49. By
contrast, the widely reported ability of HTT exon1 to
readily form a variety of aggregated structures presents
an array of plausible candidates that might mediate toxicity (see below)37. This aggregation links Huntington
disease to other neurodegenerative diseases that feature
a protein aggregation component, including Alzheimer
disease, Parkinson disease, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
and spongiform encephalopathies.

bind to HTT mRNA selectively and target it for degradation
by cellular mechanisms. When the agent is a short
interfering RNA (siRNA) or microRNA, the HTT
mRNA is degraded by cytoplasmic RNA-induced silencing
complex (RISC) — a process known as RNA interference
(RNAi). Alternatively, a single-stranded modified
DNA molecule or antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) can
be used to direct the transcript for degradation by
nuclear ribonuclease H.
“}}

Bates, G. P., Dorsey, R., Gusella, J. F., Hayden, M. R., Kay, C., Leavitt, B. R., Nance, M., Ross, C. A., Scahill, R. I., Wetzel, R., Wild, E. J., & Tabrizi, S. J. (2015). Huntington disease. Nature Reviews Disease Primers, 1(1), 15005.
https://doi.org/10.1038/nrdp.2015.5

from G search {{

Yes, amyloid fibrils in Huntington’s disease (HD) contain a specific protein—the mutated huntingtin (Htt) protein. These fibrils are formed specifically from the N-terminal exon 1 fragment of the mutant protein, which contains an expanded polyglutamine (polyQ) tract that forms the amyloid core.
….
Although they contain the mutant protein, the amyloid fibrils in HD are distinct from those in Alzheimer’s (A
) or Parkinson’s (
-synuclein) diseases.

}}

Likelihood function – Wikipedia

October 7, 2025

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Likelihood_function

QT:{{"In other words, when {\textstyle f(x\mid \theta )} is viewed as a function of {\textstyle x} with {\textstyle \theta } fixed, it is a probability density function, and when viewed as a function of {\textstyle \theta } with {\textstyle x} fixed, it is a likelihood function.
"}}

Visualizing Quantum Logic Gates – Bloch Sphere | Quantum Untangled

May 17, 2025

Doesn’t show how to combine two gates or make an AND

https://medium.com/quantum-untangled/visualizing-quantum-logic-gates-part-1-515bb7b58916

Shetty, A. (2021, December 30). Visualizing Quantum Logic Gates – Bloch Sphere | Quantum Untangled. Medium.
https://medium.com/quantum-untangled/visualizing-quantum-logic-gates-part-1-515bb7b58916

1906.02691 An Introduction to Variational Autoencoders

March 2, 2025

Has detailed setup for ELBO

https://arxiv.org/abs/1906.02691

Kingma, D. P., & Welling, M. (2019). An introduction to variational autoencoders. Foundations and Trends® in Machine Learning, 12(4), 307–392. https://doi.org/10.1561/2200000056

Regression Toward the Mean: An Introduction with Examples

February 23, 2025

https://fs.blog/regression-to-the-mean

Are A.I. Clones the Future of Dating? I Tried Them for Myself. – The New York Times

December 15, 2024

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/14/technology/ai-dating-apps.html

Artificial brains are helping scientists study the real thing

June 22, 2023

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/05/24/artificial-brains-are-helping-scientists-study-the-real-thing