Posts Tagged ‘x78retwee’

GPT-4 Technical Report

June 25, 2023

Just stumbled on this. Amazing how well GPT-4 seems to do on AP tests. One notable exception is AP English. I wonder why?
https://twitter.com/mattgroh/status/1635755153830584321
https://cdn.openai.com/papers/gpt-4.pdf
Test results that gpt4 can get; Doesn’t do well in ap English

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

Mark Gerstein on Twitter: “@SGgrc Thought the discussion of location tracking #privacy in the IETF specification (https://t.co/kRK3y2l8VR) was quite sophisticated — a real balancing act between the interests of the tracker and tracked. Great thanks for so carefully going through it.” / Twitter

June 11, 2023

https://twitter.com/MarkGerstein/status/1667930631345405955

https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-923-notes.pdf

https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/pdf/draft-detecting-unwanted-location-trackers-00

Might be related to some issues with genomic privacy

Conquering Alzheimer’s: a look at the therapies of the future

May 29, 2023

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00954-w

lecanemab is one of the new drugs

Interesting New Privacy Papers

May 29, 2023

the authors used deep sequencing of environmental DNA (eDNA) to find human genomic information, which they called human genetic bycatch (HGB). This paper was published in Nature Ecology & Evolution. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02056-2

This study was also featured in an article in the New York Times.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/15/science/environmental-dna-ethics-privacy.html

A new class of drugs for weight loss could end obesity | The Economist

April 28, 2023

https://www.economist.com/briefing/2023/03/02/a-new-class-of-drugs-for-weight-loss-could-end-obesity
GLP-1 agonists :
wegovy ozempic mounjaro

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK551568/#:~:text=Glucagon%2Dlike%20peptide%2D1%20agonists,and%20contraindications%20for%20these%20drugs. QT:{{”
Mechanism of Action
Glucagon-like peptide-1 and glucose-dependent insulinotropic polypeptide (GIP), both incretin hormones inactivated by dipeptidyl peptidase-4 (DPP-4), stimulate insulin secretion after an oral glucose load via the incretin effect.[10][11] In type 2 diabetes, this process can become blunted or even be absent; however, the utilization of pharmacological levels of GLP-1 can revive insulin excretion. The benefits of this form of therapy to treat type 2 diabetes include delayed gastric emptying and inhibiting the production of glucagon from pancreatic alpha cells if blood sugar levels are high.
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Leaving LastPass

March 26, 2023

https://twit.tv/shows/security-now/episodes/904?autostart=false

Found the whole @LastPass debacle depressing. First, I trusted [Steve Gibson’s] endorsement. Then I trusted it. Now I’m unsure what to do.

Bitwarden? 1password ?

What ChatGPT and generative AI mean for science

February 12, 2023

Is it possible to determine how many new sentences & ideas are introduced vs just phrase-scale grammatical and stylistic fixes?

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00340-6

Even a Little Alcohol Can Harm Your Health, Research Shows – The New York Times

January 24, 2023

Note that the article didn’t mention the connection between alcohol, stomach acid, GERD & esophageal cancer. Isn’t this another negative of alcohol besides its relationship to DNA damage?

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/13/well/mind/alcohol-health-effects.html

What most surprised experts about the Covid pandemic – STAT

January 22, 2023

20/20 hindsight & 20/200 foresight
https://www.statnews.com/2022/12/27/covid19-pandemic-what-most-surprised-experts/