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Space is hard... Intuitive Machine's lander nearly didn't make it
Several eye-opening details were revealed at NASA's press conference last night.
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FDA devastation during the pandemic - a review
We need a congressional commission now!
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Why don't we have better over-the-counter sleep aids?
I go down some rabbit holes and uncover some potential issues in how drugs are regulated...
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Weird properties of large language models
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT produce text that sounds very human-like. It’s easy to anthropomorphize such systems. However, the way they…
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Why I'm allergic to AI hype
Stories from a seven year AI veteran
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Book review - "Hacking Darwin"
Hacking Darwin by Jamie Metzl 2020, 309 pgs including footnotes. Originally posted on my website in June, 2020. Reposted here with some editing. This…
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LK-99 red flags and other miscellany
Finally publishing these misc notes .. better late than never! For those who need context, read this piece in Nature News: “LK-99 isn’t a superconductor…
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