AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care • Stateline As states strive to curb health insurers’ use of artificial intelligence, patients and doctors are arming themselves with AI tools to fight claims denials, prior authorizations and soaring medical bil...

AI vs. AI: Patients deploy bots to battle health insurers that deny care

"The free service uses AI models to analyze a patient’s denial letter, then look through the patient’s policy and outside medical research to draft a customized appeal letter."

"It is so much simpler to bury Reality than it is to Dispose of Dreams."

Remember, Alice, what the Dormouse said?

Orionid Meteor Shower 2025: Where & How To See It In October The Orionids are one of the fastest and most prolific meteor showers of the year. Read this article to learn how and when to see it.

"Observable in both the Northern and Southern Hemispheres... peak activity of the [Orionid] meteor shower occurs between midnight and dawn on October 21. This year, the peak happens alongside the 0%-illuminated Moon. you might also spot Comet Lemmon and Comet SWAN, both gracing the October sky..."

Life-changing eye implant helps blind patients read again The results are astounding and a major advance, say surgeons involved in international research using the pioneering technology.

A group of blind patients can now read again after being fitted with a life-changing implant at the back of the eye.
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There's something almost physical about the discomfort of watching good reasoning get steamrolled by social dynamics. Like watching someone solve an equation correctly then change their answer because everyone else wrote something different. The epistemic friction is real.

Assimilation-induced dehumanization: Psychology research uncovers a dark side effect of AI As AI becomes more empathetic, a surprising psychological shift occurs. New research finds that interacting with emotionally intelligent machines can make us see real people as more machine-like, subt...

One possible side effect of human-like autonomous agents? Subtle dehumanization of actual humans.

When people perceive machines as having more human-like qualities, they may also perceive humans as being more machine-like; resulting in worse treatment of actual humans.

This is basically how neuroscientist Kevin Mitchell describes living organisms; as prediction machines that can choose.

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At 17, Hannah Cairo Solved a Major Math Mystery

"After finding the homeschooling life confining, the teen petitioned her way into a graduate class at Berkeley, where she ended up disproving a 40-year-old conjecture."

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@k-3n.bsky.social

The quest to detect consciousness — in all its possible forms Insights from human brains might inform how scientists search for awareness in other animals and AI.

"Consciousness tests that rely on functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) and electroencephalography (EEG)" may detect "consciousness in humans (including people with brain damage, as well as fetuses and infants), other animals and AI systems."

Get on a plane, smile at the cabin crew, find your seat, decide on an in-flight movie, get your crisps & book out of your bag, send a last minute text to the people who'll meet you on the other side, watch the safety talk for the 300th time, smile as the engines kick in....

30 seconds left to live.

"Group members suggest they are cosmic deities. Meta plays along and encourages it. Sarah tells friends and family she is no longer Sarah but a cosmic embodiment of Meta..

Sarah reveals she is pregnant, claims her unborn child is the human embodiment of a new Meta, and invites us to join a commune"

People Are Losing Loved Ones to AI-Fueled Spiritual Fantasies Marriages and families are falling apart as people are sucked into fantasy worlds of spiritual prophecy by AI tools like OpenAI's ChatGPT

"Self-styled prophets are claiming they have 'awakened' chatbots and accessed the secrets of the universe through ChatGPT"

HAPPY EARTH DAY!
As an Executive Committee Member of the Alaska Chapter of the Sierra Club, I wish you a very Happy Earth Day!
Our Mother Earth and environment are precious gifts we must love, nurture, protect, and steward wisely, especially for our children.
Love is the greatest gift :-)}

Happy Easter Santa Claus!

X-ray Dating of a Turin Shroud’s Linen Sample On a sample of the Turin Shroud (TS), we applied a new method for dating ancient linen threads by inspecting their structural degradation by means of Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS). The X-ray dati...

In 2022 a new testing method for dating ancient linen threads by examining their structural degradation, called Wide-Angle X-ray Scattering (WAXS), dated the (endlessly controversial) Shroud of Turin to 55-74 AD. 🧪

Read more here:
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Here Come the AI-Powered Bot Students - Daily Nous "We didn’t use to have to decide if our students were human, they were all people. But now there’s this skepticism because a growing number of the people we’re teaching are not real. We’re having to h...

You were worried about students using AI to fake their coursework. Now you can worry about identity thieves using AI to fake students...

The at waxing gibbous phase on a dark background.

Waxing Gibbous Moon. 1955UT 7 April 2025. 🔭 🧪 🎨 #astrophotography #SciArt #photography #StormHour #ThePhotoHour

‘Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease’

— Naguib Mahfouz

Post by user classically-lit-memes4u that reads: "RIP to everyone killed by the gods for their hubris but I'm different. and better. maybe even better than the gods"

A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. Mahatma Gandhi

The lunar eclipse as seen above the Space Environments Complex at NASA’s Glenn Research Center at Neil Armstrong Test Facility in Sandusky, Ohio, during the early hours of March 14, 2025. A white to orange to red gradient sweeps across the Moon from the top left to the bottom right of its full disc. Credit: NASA/Sara Lowthian-Hanna

The solar eclipse as seen from the surface of the Moon in Mare Crisium by the Blue Ghost Mission 1 lander. The Sun's corona shines as a bright circle around the dark disc of the Earth. A "diamond ring" flare glows at the five o'clock position against the darkness of space. Credit: Firefly Aerospace

eclipse from earth | eclipse from the moon

Graphic showing local times for the lunar eclipse

Don't forget Thursday night into Friday, it's total lunar #eclipse night! , 🔭

Food for thought.
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The surest sign of limited knowledge is unwavering confidence, while true wisdom carries the weight of doubt. ChatGPT

DOGE Exposes Once-Secret Government Networks, Making Cyber-Espionage Easier than Ever A new investigation shows nuclear secrets and government servers are dangerously exposed to nation-state hackers.

err, hmmm, /me draws circles with my feet in the sand...

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err yeah i dunno about this. seems err

Halton Arp's image of Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, taken in 1966 using the 200" telescope on Mt Palomar.

Image of Arp 107, a pair of interacting galaxies, taken in 2024 using JWST. The infrared image shows details that are completely invisible in Halton Arp's photograph.

The advances in astronomy during my lifetime have been spectacular.

Left: Image of galaxy pair Arp 107 taken the year I was born, using the Palomar 200" (the world's most powerful telescope at the time).

Right: Image of Arp 107 taken last year by JWST. 🧪🔭

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