benrapscallion

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   by benrapscallion 5mo ago

   If this is so, why do I find (for scientific research on biomedicine topics, primarily) that Claude’s results are much better than say Gemini’s? I hear the same opinion from others in biotech and big pharma.
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   by benrapscallion 6mo ago

   What is a terminal reader? Runs in the shell? Newsblur has that? I use their web and iOS interfaces.
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   by benrapscallion 6mo ago

   Might be related to neck stiffness on very cold nights.
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   by benrapscallion 7mo ago

   It is Facebook. I expected exactly this from smart glasses made by them. You can’t change the DNA of a company.
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   by benrapscallion 7mo ago

   Pinterest - the sewer of internet image search
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   by benrapscallion 7mo ago

   The ability to (1) block all Pinterest domains in image search and (2) click an image hyperlink and get straight to the file - these two features alone are worth my annual subscription fee to Kagi.
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   by benrapscallion 9mo ago

   Techmeme Ongoing (Tim Bray) On My Om (Om Malik) Rest of World Sherwood.news Stephen Wolfram’s blog
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   by benrapscallion 9mo ago

   Acquired Scamfluencers Business Wars The Social Radars Big Technology Podcast
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   by benrapscallion 9mo ago

   This should be a badge of honor, a rite of passage for companies: when they become big and important enough for humanity, RMS will write a negative <company>.html page on his website.
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    by benrapscallion 10mo ago

    The virus lies dormant in spinal and cranial ganglia for decades. If it reactivates, the immune system suppresses it, in the meantime. Past age 50-60, immunity wanes and these reactivations cannot be suppressed which allows the virus to tra
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    by benrapscallion 10mo ago

    I came here to note the same.
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    by benrapscallion 11mo ago

    This (attribution) is exactly the issue that was mentioned by LexisNexis CEO in a recent The Verge interview. https://www.theverge.com/podcast/807136/lexisnexis-ceo-sean-...
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    by benrapscallion 11mo ago

    Absolutely. This is the correct way do this. It should be adjusted downwards to account for inflation, not up.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Someone should start a StallmanGPT that writes regular blogposts on “Don’t use <popular software or website>”. See if readers can tell those apart from the real website.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Link to iOS App: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/kagi-news/id6748314243
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Where is this setting in Perplexity?
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Some of these imaging that are overdone in India involve radiation: the most problematic being (not low dose) CT. So there is a rationale for controlling these modalities.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Fastmail and HEY email, Kagi, 1Password, Newsblur, Perplexity, Wolfram (Mathematica), Zotero, Dropbox, Backblaze, Microsoft Office, Raindrop.io, Wachete (track changes on webpages) == I also pay for Google but that’s just ransom for my data
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    It’s called kagi.com
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    They did “pay” $14B to the CEO of ScaleAI. $100M sounds plausible, relatively.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Can’t wait to have 3D “personalized” ad billboards follow me everywhere and “pause” my walking directions until I watch a 30-second unskippable commercial. The VR glasses future is exciting no doubt: too bad however that it is being ushered
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    That’s not what has been happening with DiscovEHR and Regeneron Genetics Center data.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Still doesn’t work for me.
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    According to NYT, “ of the $9 billion in federal funding that Harvard receives, with $7 billion going to the university’s 11 affiliated hospitals in Boston and Cambridge, Mass., including Massachusetts General, Boston Children’s Hospital an
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    by benrapscallion 1y ago

    Harvard affiliated hospitals are dependent on NIH funding for survival. Wonder if they are included in the scope of this.
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    by benrapscallion 2y ago

    Given how late in the article it is mentioned that the drug was indistinguishable from placebo, this NYT article may well have been commissioned by Vertex. [1] https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/pain-comes-t
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    by benrapscallion 2y ago

    The best $36 I pay every year.
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    by benrapscallion 2y ago

    Naming opportunity: Shitty Images
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    by benrapscallion 2y ago

    Does it correctly ignore the “Comments on:” feeds that are sometimes mistakenly chosen over the main feed?
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    by benrapscallion 2y ago

    How is this false research? Most other studies rely on self-reported measures of sleep. This is using objective measures.