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- The paradox of medical AI implementation. Medical AI is not there yet - but soon?
- From the archives: In praise of slowness.
- Interesting - Magnified Sand.
- The fastest V-Shaped Recovery Ever. Lot of information to give one pause (BTW "semi" stand for semiconductor not semi-truck).
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- Peter Attia - is the data on dieting and depression deceiving us?
- Tracking efforts to shrink the size of the federal workforce. Interesting comparison between Donald Trump and Bill Clinton.
- "It was a cover-up plain and simple:" the Russian collusion hoax explained.
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- China reportedly wants to build the largest dam in the world in Tibet fueling fears in India and Bangladesh. China is also guaranteeing that India makes this dam their primary target if war ever breaks out between them.
- Melania Trump may be the most elegant and beautiful first lady this country ever had. "You either noticed or didn't deserve to."
- Jonathan Turley: The Rise and Fall of John Brennan. The saying goes the road to hell is paved with good intentions but in this case it may be the road to jail.
- Peter Attia - it's time to remove warning labels on hormone replacement products.
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- The Peptide Craze. Take note that the potential adverse effects can be scary.
- Jonathan Turley on the Colbert cancellation.
- Seth Godin's Notes to Myself. Good life advice.
- Trump Conjures Nixon. I'd argue that it's more RealBusiness than Realpolitik though.
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- Two very good weeks for President Trump. USA! USA! USA!
- Dan Bongino on the NY Times attempt to smear him and the FBI. Punch back twice as hard.
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- AI could be the future of medicine. What better way to save doctors time, get diagnoses right, and keep patients out of the hospitals in the first place.
- CIA finally coming clean about involvement in JFK assassination. Many questions remain.
- Tesla stock dips amidst Trump and Musk feud. This is before the company starts seeing revenue on robotaxi or Optimus robot sales.
- Jonathan Turley: The Left issues "broken arrow" message to Europe. When people tell you who they are - believe them. These people hate America.
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- Why the era of lawless leftist judges is likely ending soon. The Supreme Court needs to remind these District Judges they report to them and are not independent contractors.
- Whatever he learned in Southeast Asia, he brought back to LA. Recently read this book and been meaning to do a review.
- Alice Cooper on why Jeff Beck is the best guitar player. Of course Jimmi Hendrix said it was Chicago founder Terry Kath, (HT Newmark's Door)
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- Science won't save itself - we have to make it personal. Stand up for science. (HT Cultural Offering)
- Glenn Reynolds: How Democrats used NGO's to end-run voters.
- Former Patriots TE Don Hasselbeck dies of cardiac arrest at 70. RIP to a good man.
- This includes an estimated $1.1 billion in funding for NPR and PBS.
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- Statement from Tractor Supply
- Judge rules against the NFL in the DirecTV Sunday Ticket trial. How will the multi-billion settlement be paid out?
- Chimpanzees seen self-medicating with plants. It's not just a human thing.
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- Can Sam Harris pull back from his Covid lunacy? Reminded of people saying "Mussolini made the trains run on time but then went too far." Harris is Mussolini at this point.
- Have to agree with Donald Trump - General Mark Miley is an awful human.
- All eyes on medical AI. Know that many major companies have tried to make medical AI work in the US without much success so this is encouraging.
- Justin Trudeau applauds Nazi. Tar and feathers? Dustbin of history? Your choice Canada.
- Scary! Assuming this is just "sports supplements" and not Omega 3 fish oils and things like Vitamin D. Or am I wrong? Should I be ordering from only Onnit just to be safe?
- Supplements aren't the only things that are dodgy - medicine is plagued by untrustworthy clinical trials. If you thought randomized clinical trials were the gold standard - think again.
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- When it comes to vaccines and medicine - what RFK Jr. gets right and wrong. Disagree with Ivermectin as Dr. Prasad seems to fall into the "horse de-wormer" camp. On the fence about childhood vaccines but the fact that there doesn't seem to be any cases of autism in the Amish gives me pause.
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- Morgan Housel on Why You Believe the Things You Do. So very true.
- The Daily Coach on Beyond Public Success: Balancing Growth and Achievement
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- Steven Pressfield on the "Turn in your gun and badge" moment
- New blood test can detect Alzheimer's risk with 96% accuracy. (HT Newmark's Door)
- Critical Rationalism - perhaps the best theory of knowledge and progress.
- Clever but you may have to be of a certain age to get it (HT Some It's Jut as Well)
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- This gets me - every damn time.
- Making Battleship Ice Cream. Very cool history.
- You're blowing smoke up my arse, right? More cool history although ice cream would definitely be my preference over tobacco enemas.
- Althouse on another Kennedy challenging another Democratic sitting President.
IBM originally had big plans for Deep Blue being used in medical practice. Diagnosing ailments was supposed to pay the bills while playing chess and beating Garry Kasparov was what it did for PR.
Problem is IBM couldn't get it to work in a real clinical setting despite pouring millions into it. But now with ChatGPT4 and other AI's could the Smart Doctor on your Smartphone be a reality? Some people say we're really close.
To me this issue is trust. You could have an AI crawling all the medical journals for the latest studies but the problem is most studies are crap. Flawed methodologies, biased funding, and other issues plague medical papers. What I'd like is to have a list of trusted medical sources where the AI uses their direct words from podcasts and speeches as well as their direct writings to form a database of recommendations.
For example I would trust Peter Attia, Andrew Huberman, and Rhonda Patrick. If they had spoken or written about my medical question - then my pocket Dr. Mario tells me their recommendations. My blood work and vitals could be inputted into the app and the words from my trusted doctors would be used to analyze the data.
We're not too far off from this brave new medical world.
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- Human lab rats. I couldn't do this but to each their own.
- Hockey players and fans are the best! Your feel good story for today.
- Heh Heh - Many a truth is said in jest!
- ChatGPT's liberal bias. Sadly for the people who designed the AI chat bot this isn't a bug - it's a feature.
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- Marc Andreessen - On Pausing Alcohol
- Are Apple suppliers rushing to get out of China faster than expected?
- The Death of Historical Truth
- Boston Bruins sign David Pastrnak to huge 8-year extension. Great news for Bruins fans!
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- China's economy, real estate bubble and all, looking a lot like Japan's from a couple decades ago. I've long said China's economy is much weaker than believed.
- Is reverse aging already possible?
- Very cool - small water powered generator. Imagine this would be very handy for people living off the grid in the woods.
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- Sensitive US military emails spill online. Very bad look for Microsoft. We're in the very best of hands.
- Yikes - Antidepressants no better than placebo for about 85% of people
- The Washington Post hit piece on Elon Musk. They gave more oxygen to this non-story than to all the Twitter Files stories combined.
