Today's blog post:
Excellent news: COVID-19 vaccinations lower cardiovascular risk, including all causes (even 'unrelated' to COVID-19). Also, shingles vaccinations continue to lower Alzheimer's risk.
Vaccines continue to be very good ideas.
RE: https://hachyderm.io/@thomasfuchs/116134590715834642
Now *there's* a turn of phrase:
"What used to be bicycles for the mind are now subscription-based pickup trucks driven by Nazis in a neverending demolition derby."
RE: https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/116127740444038853
Dunno if I believe it yet, but it's at the edge of being almost plausible to me.
RE: https://mastodon.social/@grrlscientist/116074101449226734
Checks out.
RE: https://vis.social/@infobeautiful/115979668993362896
As a 70 year old, I'm not ashamed that about 85% of emissions happened in my lifetime. Mostly, we didn't understand the consequences, with rare exceptions.
I *am* ashamed at how much we resist changing now that we *do* know better, and alternatives like solar, wind, and nuclear are so available.
Today's blog post:
Addendum re AI LLMs providing little benefit in business deployments. Price Waterhouse Coopers joins & agrees with MIT, CMU, Boston Consulting Group, the BBC, Reuters, The Economist, and Oxford Economics.
Evidence is piling up.
Today's blog post:
In New England, it must be the season of the... leaf. (The Donovan song from 1966 notwithstanding.)
Today's blog post:
A little girl demonstrates on video how to break zip-ties, in her words "in case you get kidnapped".
Around 2005, Olin Shivers published a famous paper on the complexities of a loop macro for Scheme (see below).
Section 11 of the paper describes some properties of the implementation, but there is no obvious link to the implementation itself. Perhaps I'm blind. (I do note, though, that SRFI 242 provides a control flow graph mechanism that seems relevant.)
Is there an implementation of this loop macro running around somewhere?
(Yes, I know 10,000 people who hate loop macros are about to advise me they think this is inadvisable. I'm asking about availability, not advisability. :-)
How long do you think it'll be before their keyword search scripts flag a false positive on "DEI" when they read "Opus Dei"?
Today's blog post, brought to my attention by:
@sphakos @jenniferplusplus
In the 2022 tech layoffs, 70% of those laid off were women, who made up only 20% of the tech workforce.
Does a Bayesian analysis show this is evidence of bias? Yes, by a factor of 8.8x in the male/female likelihood ratio.