Great episode! Liked the discussion of “permission-less browser clipboard write” (shown at http://webplatform.news), esp. the example of a malicious website rewriting a crypto wallet address in the clipboard without the user realizing it.
However, how does a website know the clipboard contains a wallet address to overwrite, in the first place?
https://www.grc.com/sn/sn-887.htm
Security Now! Transcript of Episode #887
Liked the discussion of the paper by @stevesphd on Coffee Consumption
& Cancer Risk (https://clinicalnutritionjournal.com/article/S0261-5614(22)00313-2/fulltext). However, I was surprised that the elevation of stomach acid & GERD from caffeine was not mentioned as a potential reason for the association with esophageal cancer.
https://twitter.com/NakedScientists/status/1566387990330765312
ORIGINAL ARTICLE| VOLUME 41, ISSUE 10, P2113-2123, OCTOBER 01, 2022
Coffee consumption and cancer risk: a Mendelian randomisation study
Paul Carter
Shuai Yuan
Siddhartha Kar
Amy M. Mason
Stephen Burgess
Susanna C. Larsson
Published: August 24, 2022
https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2120887119
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Nice paper. Curious: was methylation able to predict weight accurately?
https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/9819881
https://spectrum.ieee.org/quantum-error-correction
Found this a great discussion on why error correction is so important to scale quantum computers & why it’s so tricky to achieve
https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(22)01075-0
Might be interesting to compare to a study of how dis-similar genetically identical twins can look
https://www.science.org/content/article/chewing-burns-more-calories-you-think-and-may-have-shaped-our-evolution Great article! Wondered about the implications of chewing for weight loss: Perhaps humans so readily “overeat” because they don’t have to spend so much time chewing.
A “world that Bert built” but perhaps LaMDA is disassembling.
Found the photograph for the article actually more compelling & well-executed than the text of the article itself
I Didn’t Want It to Be True, but the Medium Really Is the Message
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/opinion/media-message-twitter-instagram.amp.html
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