tingilinde

jobs?

 

 

we each have responsibility

Don't obey in advance

 

the republican effort to redefine fraud

How to win an election you've lost  is certification broken?

a tip of the hat to Lorraine 

surgery - an interesting use can for apple vision pro

An inexpensive tool that provides information and ergonomic relief.

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“I’m usually turning around and stopping the operation to see a CT scan; looking to see what happened with the endoscopy [another small camera that provides a closer look at organs]; looking at the monitor for the heart rate,” Horgan says.

As a result, most surgeons report experiencing discomfort while performing minimal-access surgery, a 2022 study found. About one-fifth of surgeons polled said they would consider retiring early because their pain was so frequent and uncomfortable. A good mixed-reality headset, then, might allow a surgeon to look at a patient’s surgical area and, without looking up, virtual screens that show them the laparoscopy camera and a patient’s vitals.
In previous years, Horgan tried other headsets, like Google Glass and Microsoft HoloLens, and found they weren’t high-resolution enough. But he tested the Apple Vision Pro before its release and was immediately impressed. Horgan applied for approval from the institutional review board at the University of California, which green-lit the use of the devices. In September, he led the first surgery with the Apple headset, for a paraesophageal hernia. “We are all blown away: It was better than we even expected,” Horgan says.

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a tip of the hat to John

 

 

population density maps

Lots of fun looking through these

 

the maga extremist cliff and a look back at 1880

Heather Cox Richardson on the GOP's internal struggles.

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But while older leaders were happy to use Trump’s base to keep the party in power, the two factions were never in sync. Established Republican leaders’ goal was to preside over a largely unregulated market-driven economy. But MAGA Republicans want a weak government only with regard to foreign enemies—another place where they part company with established Republicans. Instead, they want a strong government to impose religious rules. Rather than leaving companies alone to react to markets, they want them to shape their businesses around MAGA ideology, denying LGBTQ+ rights, for example.

In 2024, those tensions are stronger. Trump’s promise to build a tariff wall around the country contradicts the established Republicans’ reliance on free trade. His vow to deport 20 million immigrants threatens to devastate entire sectors of the economy. Both plans are widely panned by economists. Yesterday, twenty-three Nobel Prize-winning economists warned that Trump’s economic plans would “lead to higher prices, larger deficits, and greater inequality.” On Morning Joe today, economic analyst Steve Rattner noted that Trump’s plans would cut the gross domestic product in the U.S. by 8.9%, creating a severe recession or a depression.

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democracy dies in darkness

The slogan under the Washington Post's masthead is now ..  well .. Ann Telnaes says it best.  Of course the LA Times did the same thing.  It's a good time to cancel subscriptions.

 

using llms to poison biomedical knowledge graphs

The attack sounds simple and could do real damage.  Hopefully good countermeasures will be found and implemented.

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The main objective of the recent study by Yang and his colleagues was to explore the possibility of using LLMs to poison KGs and assess the impact that this malicious use of the models could have on biomedical discovery. In addition, the researchers hoped to shed light on the risks associated with using publicly available datasets to conduct medical research, potentially informing the development of effective measures to prevent the poisoning of these datasets.

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some of the media

Remember the newspapers that can't find it in themselves to endorse Harris over a fascist, an insurrectionist, and a convicted felon.  Remember they can be cowed to the point of self-censorship.  Remember they are cowards.  

 

houses depreciate in japan

Many can be had for nearly nothing, but it's not exactly an investment.  Fixing them has become performance art for some.