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Shitty-kitty··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Blame evolution. For 99% of our 300,000 year history, starvation not obesity was what killed homo-sapiens.
Shitty-kitty··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
Exercise does very little for weight-loss. You can fill up on calories far faster then you can exercise them.
Shitty-kitty··on Medicare Will Pay $50k for Your Heart Attack. It Should Pay $100 to Prevent It
The biological drive for high calorie food and fat reserves are the problem in a environment where food-scarcity is not an issue.
Shitty-kitty··on Bolsonaro declares himself rightful leader of Brazil after losing election
He is protecting a wanted fugitive, that's something.
Shitty-kitty··on She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On
Their public messaging claims that LLM's may already be self-aware, may replace most of the workforce or even eradicate humanity but for legalese, it is just a dumb computer program. Can't have it both ways!
Shitty-kitty··on She Worried About Cutting Her Medication Dose. ChatGPT Told Her to Push On
If they already have a health specific model why aren't the others instructed to forward health related queries? Sounds to me, they are just trying to cover their ass; "Your honor, it is not our fault she didn't use the correct model"
Shitty-kitty··on A mathematician reads the AI future
The importance of "proof" in math is to discover the reason and see if you can generalize or apply it somewhere else. A uncomprehandable proof is completely useless.
Shitty-kitty··on A mathematician reads the AI future
They aren't programming robots. A lot of students, especially the ones who have not been taught from an early age the importance and rewards of knowledge, simply aren't interested in learning.
Shitty-kitty··on New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
Not likely. The Insurance industry will train their own A.I that says whatever they want it to say.
Shitty-kitty··on New AI Is More Than Twice as Good at Diagnosing Diseases as Doctors
The problem is that insurance won't authorize unless the doctor has a good reason to suspect a rare decease with expensive tests. Even then they will verify that the doctor has followed protocol and gone thru all the cheap tests first.
Shitty-kitty··on Whatever Happened to Fire Escapes
A old brick-wall building is basically a pretty shell protecting a wood frame.
Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
The biggest problem with MOND is that it was hand-crafted with additional parameters simply to fit the data. What's missing is a reason or a mechanism by witch gravity stops following the inverse square. Scientists generally take a dim view of such theories.

"With four parameters I can fit an elephant, and with five I can make him wiggle his trunk." John von Neumann

Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
Unfortunately it is very common for people to spend 10 minutes using their "common sense" to find some simple explanation that seems to have defied the Scientist, rather then spend that time to read a quick article that explains the foundamentals.
Shitty-kitty··on Triplet of 'ghostly' galaxies hints at what dark matter is and isn't
It is notoriously difficult to observe the galaxy from the inside. We know much more about other galaxies then our own.
Shitty-kitty··on How Corruption Got This Bad
This is the reason why Congressional terms are only 2 years and why Senate elections are staggered. Of course nothing helps if the majority decides "f checks and balances"
Shitty-kitty··on DHS Claimed It Searched GrapheneOS Phone Wiper for Child Abuse Material. It Lied
This is most likely gonna end up on the Supreme Court docket. The defense is hoping that instead of making a judgment, they just punt it on a technicality such as this.
Shitty-kitty··on Europe EV sales rose 70.3% in September, 32.6% of market share
I only drive 300 miles a week. The problem is, I live in a apartment and there are no chargers at my workplace.
Shitty-kitty··on Alternatives to animal testing are finally taking off
Time to feed my beloved pet snake.
Shitty-kitty··on Computer Chips Are the Most Magnificent Things Humanity Has Ever Made
Farming and domestication may have sounded boring even in the bronze age but I can assure you, without those we would still be hurling pointed rocks at each-other.
Shitty-kitty··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
The Hagia Sophia or the Sagrada Família took more then a lifetime to build but they were usable for their intended purpose, long before they were finished.
Shitty-kitty··on Worlds more habitable than Earth?
Oxygen is a highly efficient electron acceptor. Anything requiring tons of energy to power a big brain will scarcely find a suitable replacement. The same properties that make it a good source of energy, also make it dangerous. Most of the metabolic stress comes from oxygen. It is a double-edged sword.
Shitty-kitty··on I would like the value of my home to rise, while my property taxes fall
This sounds like a plan to make rented properties a more liquid asset and make rent cheaper. Seems like a sound idea to me.
Shitty-kitty··on Why were Victorian elites so effective?
The system was already set-up to their maximum benefit. Their corruption was in making sure nothing changed, no matter the clamoring of the vast majority.
Shitty-kitty··on Mistral Large 4
The open-weight models are a great boon to all American companies other than a handfull of Mega Corps in the A.I business. Care to explain how this is "economic warfare against the U.S"
Shitty-kitty··on So you think you could be an electrician?
Nobody should be debugging code by hand either but when all the tools fail, its time to get your hands dirty.
Shitty-kitty··on So you think you could be an electrician?
For effect. You want the client to feel that they got their money's worth and it wasn't something they could have done themselves.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
Most of it is oxygen. Oxygen is highly reactive so the same thing that makes it a good as source of fuel, also makes it poisonous. It is a double-edged sword.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
The stress has always been about food. Worrying about prey or a paycheck is the same thing.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
There are 2 stages. Growth, till ~20 and then it switches to aging.
Shitty-kitty··on Loss of cell identity drives human aging: Two new papers
They are not talking about stress in the "mental health" setting, rather the metabolic one.
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