The first is certainly true, but reading the BMJ article doesn't suggest (or even compare) that these are offering worse info than is returned via Bing/Google for similar search terms. I briefly tested it and the bots (copilot, ChatGPT) were much clearer on lack of evidence and dangers than search.

That's an interesting point, but not sure what a court, or AI company, would say. Placement of results in the page of search results is a similar judgement to return of AI findings (at least it used to be, with page rank). Are they not both algorithmic probabilities aggregated from sources?

I don't disagree that AI regulation will come, but don't Google or other search engines give you the same information about chemo alternatives if asked? So I don't think this is special AI nonsense, perhaps more general health misinformation legislation would be needed?

I have an inverted motic that I used for routine tissue culture observation. It worked great for about 10 years, then something went wrong with the switch/electrics. I stopped doing tc about the time it failed (unrelated). We use their cameras for teaching/demonstration too.

Does he think these works of fiction are messages sent from the future to warn us? I don't get it. Is this a "all books are like the Bible" thing?

Oooh, interesting. Every day's a school day...

How would they not be ecologies subject to the "usual" rules?

Chuckles, returns to microbiome literature...

To me it feels exactly like twitter did in it's heyday. But I never use anything other than my own timeline feed, here or previously on twitter. I don't want a direct algo.

Yes, viruses are totally reliant on getting inside cells to replicate, block entry or binding they are cooked. Hookworms require the vaccine target protein to feed on blood, block that and they die. Some vaccines target toxins e.g. tetanus, they don't kill the pathogen, but stop it killing you.

The vaccine prompted antibodies to an essential hookworm protein. These antibodies may disable or inhibit that protein's function, causing the work to starve. They may also recruit membrane attack complexes and other immune mechanisms to kill the parasite, but in this case that seems less important.

But I told ChatGPT "no mistakes"!

I got the advanced for the sequel.

Yes, I also endorse this.
In chapter 3 I will go into detail on this idea. Chapter 5 will begin with a recap and extension via examples of my endorsement thesis. Finally, in chapters 7, 8 and 9 I will summarise how, why and when I have endorsed this idea and how I hope to continue to do so.

Apologies, my tone did not come across. My point was that if you don't measure something, you gain no insight into it. France definitely had (and likely still has) a significant racism issue, but no recorded data to reveal such. That doesn't mean gender has to be on a drivers licence, though.

There is a risk, that France discovered. They never recorded race, you were French and that was it. So they never had a racism problem! Solved!

Nutella and orange marmalade. Exceptional.

I have used the expensive, but excellent hardening mountants from Invitrogen. You can then store the slides at -20 for years.

I had a model of this in gunmetal as a kid. Always loved how they look, long nose and those buttresses!

This is sometimes termed Gell-Mann amnesia - generalises well beyond science.

A weird thing during compulsory masking, my windows hello pc would log in if I was wearing a surgical mask, but not an ffp3. I think that camera uses partly IR, so I wondered if it could see through the surgical mask? Maybe the same is true for goggles? Or enough unique features in the lower face?

I always loved the "your judgement on the suitability for the journal" - you're the editor, if that is not your call, what is?

See also the debates between DNA purification kits vs making the buffers etc yourself; then RNAseq replacing qRT-PCR validation of microarrays. OTOH, each technique has biases, including those biases we steeped in at the bench/in the field.

Silver plastic tub of vitamins labelled "BONES"

Not sure that Boots inspire confidence with their vitamin D supplements.

I love the way they look exactly like averaged versions of upright and end-on barrels. WYSIWYG AI FTW. Always funny to see the probability tree at work.

Tbh I have thought for some time that everything should move to preprints, with scholarly societies doing regular review articles to link and highlight credible advances. I don't know if it would work, but it would save a lot of money and huge amounts of time.

The publishers don't have enough money to pay more editors? Surely this is one thing they can offer that society and other less lucrative journals lack?

I can't wait - make this a bsky skeet series please. I love that vertigo induced by mysterious LORE!

Might I suggest, by this rationale and based on what has been already documented of their activities, you arrest all ICE field personnel?

F8 and be there. Like, lying on the floor be there...