Andrew Weatherall
@andyweatherall.bsky.social
Paeds anaesthetist. Helicopter doc. Other things.
This is going to make it very difficult to know which sports we should ban them from.
Kat Kerlin@katkerlin.bsky.social · last wk.Some avocados are female in the morning and male in the afternoon, while others are on the opposite schedule. This helps them avoid self-pollination. How do they do it? A @ucdavis.bsky.social study explains. www.ucdavis.edu/food/news/st...
TikTok has incredible moderation team. Our InfoWars video about Multiple Horse Theory — the idea that there are many horses in the world and not just one — has been fully deemed misinformation and lost the formal appeals process. Confirmed by Larry Ellison: There is only one horse on Earth.
Missed payments. Slashed staffing. Broken security. A patient who froze to death on a hospital roof. @h-lev.bsky.social & @acleek.bsky.social investigate American Healthcare System, the company driving hospitals around the country to financial chaos. www.motherjones.com/politics/202...
A for-profit hospital slashed costs. Then a patient froze to death on its roof.
A little-known company grew on promises to save distressed hospitals. Instead, it sunk them into financial chaos.
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extremely normal guy voice: I cloned myself so I can become my own blood boy.
Fascinating thread from the writer whose 2017 translation of The Odyssey you are now going to see many people reading!
EMILY WILSON@emilyrcwilson.bsky.social · 3w agoOn the language of Homeric Greek, and the language of a certain forthcoming film: here are a few simple observations.
“.. I asked a few AI researchers whether they could name any other real-world software that scales so poorly. None of them could think of any. “.. By economic and engineering measures, generative AI might be the worst technology ever deployed.” @theatlantic.com www.theatlantic.com/technology/2...
I think Norway should beat England, as a little treat for everyone (except English people)
Marimu-chan, a mascot from Lake Akan in Kushiro City, is a sentient ball of algae wearing a traditional local Ainu costume.
“Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work” www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Worship me at the office altar: Why narcissistic leaders resist remote work
Leaders have displayed diverging reactions to remote work, with some supporting it and others resisting it. Surprisingly little research has examined …
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Despite widespread adoption of the "reversible causes” approach in traumatic cardiac arrest there is no evidence yet for improved survival. We have a look at some recent evidence from large datasets that suggests nuancing of current algorithms is warranted. #hobarttca
Re-evaluating the traumatic cardiac arrest paradigm: the case for early rhythm assessment and targeted compressions
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Academics “examined the behaviour of mainstream large language models provided by Elon Musk’s xAI, Meta, Google, China’s Alibaba and France’s Mistral and found the introduction of bias happens even when the AI tool is instructed to preserve the original sense.”
AI altering meaning of users’ drafts on issues from abortion to climate, study finds
Researchers say small changes in drafting could spread rapidly and create long-term shifts in public opinion
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Once upon a time I just got ads for weightloss drugs. Now tho…
mad how the defining cultural image of Steamboat Willie is Mickey whistling and driving the boat, and not the bit where he plays a pig's nipples as a musical instrument while it shrieks in pain
🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️ One milkshake to rule the boys, one milkshake to find them, one milkshake to bring the boys and in my yard to bind them 🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️🕯️
Hirokuma, a bear who turned yellow after eating too many lemons, is the mascot of Hiroshima Pefecture. He actually smells of lemons in person.
The would be a pretty funny bit of satire, except it's not satire.
The cost of tokens is not taken into account. Let alone the increasing reports of people having to clean up AI slop code affecting productivity. www.cio.com/article/4189...
AI coding token costs are on track to rival human payroll
Growing use of coding agents and consumption-based pricing models could push per-developer AI spending to unprecedented levels over the next two years, says Gartner.
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Greg Jericho@grogsgamut.bsky.social · last mo.This was an example the PC gave of the productivity benefits of AI:
Musk says not a single person has died due to him axing USAID. Sadly, part of my job involves tracking aid spending. So here’s a thread with just some of the people who lost their lives because of USAID cuts
New: Researchers have quantified how easy AI search is to manipulate. Just 13 words buried in a random Reddit comment can poison AI search results. They suggest this is not easy to stop: "The way you can attack these systems is so much dumber than you think it is" www.404media.co/it-is-trivia...
It Is Trivially Easy to Use Reddit to Manipulate AI Search, Research Suggests
"We show that a tiny snippet—just 13 words—of retrieved text on a UGC website like Reddit, Wikipedia, Quora, or Facebook can change AI agents to output spam / scam content pretty consistently."
404media.co
The Caucasian Shepherd Dog is a livestock guardian dog native to the countries of the Caucasus region and one of the world's largest dog breeds. This is its size with humans for scale. Original post
España, by Ricard Verde, 1937, 📸 by Ronald Cortes
today I discovered this incredible story of a minor league pitcher who is 6'4 wears glasses and a ginger beard who hurt his elbow and went to the doc for Tommy John surgery and was mistaken for a pitcher from a diff team who was also there for TJ surgery on same day anyway heres their pics and names
"We're shipping so much more code with AI!" "Good, stable code?" "Oh heavens no. No no no. not at all. We couldn't possibly"
Sue Smith@suesmith.lol · 2mo ago"The AI engineering impact data shows that output is up. It also shows that the work required to ensure that output is safe, correct, and maintainable has not decreased. It has increased substantially." Aye, if only any of us had been saying this from day one 🤡 www.faros.ai/blog/ai-acce...
Melon Kuma, a terrifying hybrid of a melon and a bear, is a character from Yubari City in Hokkaido, and was inspired by wild brown bears destroying melon patches in the area. He visited the Tokyo Metropolitan Government Building today.
This is Flip-Flop Fury, a physics-based projectile steering indie game where you hurl footwear at despicable targets! Coming to Steam: store.steampowered.com/app/3608830/... by indie dev @shapeshifterdgt.bsky.social