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> It's worth emphasizing that so far these results have only been shown in experiments involving nematodes and human cells

I doubt it would have the same result in a warmblooded animal like humans, because only superficial cells would actually reach the effective temperature.

The accolades matter for more than pride; they lead to money that funds more work.

Is it really "collaboration" if someone takes results discovered by other people and uses them without acknowledgement?

> It requires that all sorts of results were made unknowingly by mathematicians but they somehow didn't realize it.

It only requires that several different mathematicians knowingly found partial results but weren't aware of the results made by other mathematicians.

What kind of hardware do you need to run a useful LLM at home? To train one?

> AI's are trained with existing information, so obviously whatever he expected to discover was already out there.

I've wondered about that myself. Does the fact that LLM's were able to solve these problems so easily indicate that most of the solution already existed, scattered in the training data, and the LLM was simply able to put together the pieces?

I think it's an interesting conjecture but nothing more without proof.

I'm just providing a nudge to support extraordinary claims with clear facts. Whether you want to do that is of course up to you.

> Project 2025 fairly implicitly stated that the idea was to scuttle trust in the US government so badly that there would be a case for private equity to swoop in and save the day. That's what you're seeing.

Could you quote the exact text you're interpreting here?

(Not the whole Project 2025 text; the specific sentence(s) that imply that.)

It's a big drop, but most of it happened in 2021-2023, when reserves fell by roughly 300K from 650K to 350K. The SPR only recovered a little bit before the recent 130K drop from 415K to 285K.

What was the SPR being used for a few years ago?

Edit: Whoever downvoted, would you be willing to explain why?

> As the "non-proliferation" treaty they link to makes clear in it's very name and in the full explanation, they want to first limit unnecessary expansion.

"First" sounds like the key word in that sentence. What do they want second, third, etc?

Your link says this: "An equitable plan for the wind down of existing fossil fuel production, where nations with the capacity and historical responsibility for emissions transition fastest, providing support to others around the world."

Which sounds a lot like "stop extracting and burning oil, gas and coal"

Some medications are designed for one purpose, then other effects are discovered in practice. Gabapentin, for example, was designed as an anti-seizure medication structurally similar to the inhibitory neurotransmitter GABA.

Now it is primarily used to treat neuropathic pain, and the mechanism for that is not well understood. The GABA receptor is not involved. This effect is just a happy accident, and nobody really understands why it works.

Here's why that's a silly comparison: the percentage of people on the general election ballot for US President who don't make it is lower than the percentage of people who are actively trying to get into FAANG but don’t make it. Does that mean US President is less selective? Obviously not, because that's the last of many filters for President and there are essentially no filters before "I'll send a resume to FAANG".

In the same way, there are many filters before filling out a med school application.

Anyway I can't see any way anyone could believe the "median software developer" writing CRUD web pages or in-house apps is comparable to the average physician.

Indeed, but your liver does make clotting factors and also thrombopoietin, which stimulates platelet production.