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New post and game by me! Some people claim that AI will cure all diseases in 10 years. Others are more skeptical, arguing that experimentation and clinical trials are the bottleneck. Who's right? I designed a game to find out.
The clinical trial bottlenecks game
Where’s the bottleneck in curing diseases? I designed a game to find out.
clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
New post and game by me! Some people claim that AI will cure all diseases in 10 years. Others are more skeptical, arguing that experimentation and clinical trials are the bottleneck. Who's right? I designed a game to find out.
The clinical trial bottlenecks game
Where’s the bottleneck in curing diseases? I designed a game to find out.
clinicaltrialsabundance.blog
Happy Friday! Iʼve created a game for you to play! Will AI cure all diseases in 10 years? Inspired by bottlenecks discourse, I created a game to help build your intuitions. Play it here: game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog Naturally, it’s bottle-themed with bubbles and there are leaderboards too.
Very fun to see how many people have played already. Each line here represents a successful completion, and there were many different ways to solve the game!
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · yesterdayHappy Friday! Iʼve created a game for you to play! Will AI cure all diseases in 10 years? Inspired by bottlenecks discourse, I created a game to help build your intuitions. Play it here: game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog Naturally, it’s bottle-themed with bubbles and there are leaderboards too.
Happy Friday! Iʼve created a game for you to play! Will AI cure all diseases in 10 years? Inspired by bottlenecks discourse, I created a game to help build your intuitions. Play it here: game.clinicaltrialsabundance.blog Naturally, it’s bottle-themed with bubbles and there are leaderboards too.
. @dingdingpeng.the100.ci's baby is so chubby, I had to find out how our face sizes compared, side by side. Unfortunately I still can't tell. It's debatable
I have just eaten my first Spaghettieis. It felt very unnatural to eat it with a spoon.
New preprint! 🎉 I analysed 1660 papers from 4 psychology journals and found materials sharing went from 9% of papers in 2015 to 82% in 2025, and these materials *do* get downloaded — a median of 135 times each. BUT shared code is often hard to run. doi.org/10.31234/osf... Let's walk through it 🧵
Cluster analysis can be applied to these, and clusters will be found. But that doesn’t mean those clusters are meaningful.>
This is an *excellent* post on cluster analysis. If you ever thought about applying cluster, latent class or latent profile analysis to psychological scales, you absolutely should read this!>
Jan Vanhove@janhove.bsky.social · last wk.New blog post: "Cluster analysis: A skeptic’s guide". In which I ask a few questions that social scientists wishing to identify hidden classes in their data ought to address. janhove.github.io/posts/2026-0...
Is there any way to turn off Gemini from automatically responding when you search on Google? I've tried and can't figure out how to do so, if it's possible at all.
Tim Harford@timharford.ft.com · 2w agoI've been checking the source of quotes for my forthcoming book, and the performance of Gemini is extraordinary. I paste the quote into Google, and Gemini will barge in with the wrong answer over and over again. It's not an occasional thing - it's reliably wrong. Very odd.
I'm going to encourage all my parent friends to get back into fitness by lifting their babies. Why buy a kettleball when you could simply use a kettlebaby? youtu.be/IPDmGhbXGYY?...
25 MIN BEST FULL BODY WORKOUT WITH BABY - Postpartum Mommy Baby Fitness At Home I With Instructions!
YouTube video by Fit With Sally
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I spoke too soon! Got about a dozen emails from bots trying to collect rewards from my bug bounty since yesterday. 4 were legitimate errors though very minor, relating to my vaccine discovery dataset.
Saloni@scientificdiscovery.dev · 2w agoI'm having a similar experience, although have only received a few emails like this so far. Some are so stingy about tokens that they don't start trying to check the work unless I confirm it's eligible for a reward.
Ordered a "baklava sandwich" yesterday, not knowing what that meant. It turned out to be layers of baklava with cream on top and pistachio ice cream inside. Probably in the top 3 desserts in my life tbh.
I'm having a similar experience, although have only received a few emails like this so far. Some are so stingy about tokens that they don't start trying to check the work unless I confirm it's eligible for a reward.
Ruben C. Arslan@ruben.the100.ci · 2w agoAn interesting thing is happening to me at the moment. I have a standing bug bounty policy for my first authored scientific work. That means, I've committed to pay people who report bugs in my code, up to 750€ for severe errors. Since GPT-6 Astra came out, I'm now getting several bug reports daily.
Wrote a paragraph that elicited the comments “Yuck!” and “This is horrific!” from my colleagues. Mission accomplished.
One reason England does so well is our second generation immigrants outperform their peers which is not true in most OECD countries. We are also very good at integration. And it's v sad that this is never acknowledge in debates on immigration.
Sam Freedman@samfr.bsky.social · 3w agoNew PISA data out England is now top ten in all three areas (reading, maths, science) and the second highest performing country outside of east Asia (after Estonia). This is a huge public policy success.
A lot of people made fun of this at the time, but I actually don't think it's that bad. Mostly it amuses me to imagine feeding two birds one scone.
The AI bots have discovered my 'bug bounty' system, spotted an important error in my code, and sent me an email to notify me. Guess what the error was? An undefined colour palette.
*trying to impress a culture critic* You know, I accidentally tried reading a Bruno Latour book once.
I like the new map projection, but India looks more like a pizza slice than I'm used to
Unfortunate - the Lp(a) lowering trial that everyone (nerds) were waiting for was unsuccessful. It could've meant a highly effective new method to reduce heart attacks and strokes. I'd still like to see the detailed results, but I take this as some evidence against the causal relationship.
Novartis’ experimental cardiovascular drug fails a pivotal study
A closely watched cardiovascular drug from Novartis failed in a pivotal study, the company said Friday, a major blow to the firm.
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This is interesting. You get assigned to being born at a random place and time in history, to see what a typical person's life might have been like then. Unfortunately I was born in 1403 in the valley of Mexico and died at age 4 from dysentery.
Any Human Ever
One life, drawn at random from all who have ever lived.
anyhumanever.com
Shoutout to Muli cycles for making small bikes that enable me to transport anything from a chonker-sized baby to a Saloni-sized adult @scientificdiscovery.dev
It's a systemic problem in science reporting that these summaries exaggerate the evidence. In the actual candy study, the participants were all students, status was manipulated in the lab by telling some students they were better than others, and "nearly twice" means 1 piece vs 2 pieces.
Mark Crail@markcrail.bsky.social · 3w agoThat's crazy. ... Must be because of the -loni in her name. I have no conflicts of interest to report.
I wrote briefly on the recent antibody image scandal for our weekly round up www.abundanceandgrowth.org/p/california...
The reason you want an actual humanitarian aid system and *don’t* want to force everybody to rely on online mutual aid is because online mutual aid *forces people experiencing horrific trauma* to perform on the Internet for survival.
