tomq

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by tomq 3mo ago
It sounds like the shape of the dose response curve for chronic low dose radiation is controversial. There's a lack of definitive evidence either way and reasonable arguments in both directions. See https://en.wikipedia.org&
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by tomq 6mo ago
Yeah GPTZero says 100% AI generated
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Surfacing hidden security threats in Moltbook posts(musubilabs.ai)
8 points by tomq 8mo ago|0 comments
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by tomq 3y ago
This new paper finds 10% higher likelihood to acquit per hour of fasting. That’s huge. Imagine you’re in the criminal’s shoes. The original also found a marked impact of hunger on acquittal rates. They real story here is that a just system
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by tomq 4y ago
The authors make a classic mistake: the brain is not comparable to a Turing Machine, it is a finite state machine. There’s no infinite tape in a brain.
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Are you wrong about regenerative farming?(medium.com)
2 points by tomq 4y ago|0 comments
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Crafting a delightful experience for job candidates(medium.com)
2 points by tomq 4y ago|0 comments
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Report if you think you have Covid-19(covid19report.org)
1 points by tomq 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomq 7y ago
A detailed follow-on study found a 4,000-mile radius sphere centered on the earth’s core contains ~100% of earth’s population. Scientists stunned.
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by tomq 7y ago
One of the unfortunate things about the GM foods debate is how rarely the details of a particular crop are considered. What method was used to engineer it? What gene was added in or modified? What is the IP approach used by the inventor? Wh
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by tomq 7y ago
Barely significant results like this are suspect. See https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2017/7/31/16021654/p-... for a good overview. TLDR: the smart money is on this result failing to reproduc
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Muscle Mass Goes Downhill After 30. Can Scientists Find a Cure?(endpoints.elysiumhealth.com)
2 points by tomq 7y ago|0 comments
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by tomq 7y ago
Thanks, your points make sense. It’s definitely a worrisome coincidence given the multiple tests they ran but didn’t correct for. I hope to see that knockout experiment you describe!
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by tomq 7y ago
It's a good point. Why would the length effect you describe be be associated with age, across many organs, cell types, datasets, and species? The technical effect would be a good explanation for this finding in one dataset, but it seem
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Aging is associated with a systemic length-driven transcriptome imbalance(biorxiv.org)
107 points by tomq 7y ago|16 comments
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by tomq 7y ago
It’s important to note: the study only had 20 participants, so it wouldn’t have enough statistical power to detect a moderately large effect. Failure to find an effect is different from evidence there is no effect.
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Lightning coming to Stellar(stellar.org)
4 points by tomq 9y ago|0 comments
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Alcohol use disorder largest risk factor for dementia(sciencedaily.com)
80 points by tomq 9y ago|47 comments
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Alzheimer’s reversed in mouse model(sciencedaily.com)
1 points by tomq 9y ago|0 comments
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by tomq 9y ago
This is an interesting article, but the core argument that aging is an inevitable result of physics and not biology has a counterexample. It’s the biologically immortal hydra: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydra_(genu
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by tomq 9y ago
There are many good examples in history of oppression making a movement stronger. Think of the Boston massacre, Rosa Parks, or British treatment of Ghandi. That said, the plural of anecdote is not evidence. In the similar domain of terroris
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by tomq 9y ago
This study is completely disconnected from biological reality. Exercise is the only general-purpose life-extending intervention we know of with certainty. See for yourself: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physical_exerc
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by tomq 11y ago
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by tomq 11y ago
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by tomq 11y ago
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by tomq 11y ago
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by tomq 11y ago
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