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kame3d··on Global review confirms mRNA vaccines are safe, effective and full of promise 
Here's a better source, with video:

https://x.com/coenvermeeren/status/1537751313932599296

There's also a "Fact Check" article from Routers that says it is a "false allegation that COVID-19 mRNA vaccines are a form of gene therapy":

https://www.reuters.com/article/fact-check/bayer-executives-...

But the same article has the following quote from the above video, from Bayer's executive Stefan Oelrich:

> “Ultimately the mRNA vaccines are an example for that cell and gene therapy. I always like to say, if we had surveyed two years ago in the public, ‘would you be willing to take gene or cell therapy and inject it into your body?,’ we would have probably had a 95% refusal rate. I think this pandemic has also opened many people’s eyes to innovation in the way that was maybe not possible before.”

So it seems Bayer (or at least, Stefan Oelrich from Bayer), indeed classifies the mRNA vaccines as gene therapy.

kame3d··on VibeThinker: 3B param model that beats Opus 4.5 on reasoning with novel SFT+GRPO
Interesting!

I just tried the quantized Q4_K_M from [1] in my RTX 2070 Super, it ran at 110 tok/s with 1800 tok/s prefill, and found the same solution to your prompt. It generated valid LaTeX for the answer but its reasoning trace uses mostly compact ASCII math notation. Took 3min 22s to answer, spending 22k tokens almost all on thinking.

[1] https://huggingface.co/prithivMLmods/VibeThinker-3B-GGUF

kame3d··on Rapier is a set of 2D and 3D physics engines written in Rust
Relevant tutorial: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5R2sv9GCwz0
kame3d··on The model for coins in Super Mario Odyssey is simpler than in Super Mario Galaxy
I was also curious so I just implemented and tried. For circles with 49152 vertices I get (RTX 2070 Super):

- max area: ~2600 fps

- fan: ~860 fps

So it still holds true.

kame3d··on I decided that I must live my life on my terms
“The growing good of the world is partly dependent on unhistoric acts; and that things are not so ill with you and me as they might have been, is half owing to the number who lived faithfully a hidden life, and rest in unvisited tombs.”

– Mary Ann Evans, aka, George Eliot

kame3d··on Myocarditis associated with Covid-19 compared to mRNA vaccines
If I'm reading the charts correctly, the incidence of infection after recovering from Covid is around 13-15 per 100k after 6-8 months, and after recovering from Covid + Vaccination is around 10-14 per 100k after 6-8 months.

So it seems like vaccination does not present a clear benefit for someone that recovered from Covid? (The confidence intervals overlap)

kame3d··on Pass: The standard Unix password manager
There's the pass-code extension for that:

https://github.com/alpernebbi/pass-code

> A pass extension that obscures the filenames and folder hierarchy within your password store.

> pass-code generates random filenames for each file in the password store and keeps the mapping in an encrypted file. This way, no valuable information is accessible even if your password store is leaked to the public (unless your GPG private keys were also leaked). Nevertheless, you should always ensure proper protection of your password store.

kame3d··on Greenwald: Yesterday Journalists Spread a Significant Lie All over Twitter
Why do you say that?
kame3d··on Between two Lisps
Isn't that the same thing as using function pointers in C?

You need the * to access the function the variable points to.

kame3d··on GitHub Classroom
> For group work there are a number of tools to do analytics on who did what etc so it make seeing how well the group has worked.

I teach a computer graphics course and that seems useful. What tools do you use?

kame3d··on I don’t like computers
If I may I would recommend the work of Sherry Turkle[1] from the MIT. There are several talks from here on youtube, and I particularly like her conversation on the good life project podcast[2].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sherry_Turkle [2] https://soundcloud.com/goodlifeproject/sherry-turkle

kame3d··on Apple Stole My Music
Talk about scary! I managed to unintentionally delete all photos in my aunt's iPad. All I wanted to do was disable iCloud backups. And I am a postdoc in a CS department.
kame3d··on Dropbox Project Infinite
This is similar to the idea behind git-annex.
kame3d··on The other side of "academic freedom"
Do you know about the 'thrust' library?

http://thrust.github.io

kame3d··on Ex Google PM criticizes new Reader layout
Google should make the "Compact Controls" shortcut (Ctrl + Shift + F) universal over all Google services.