“Take General Mills’ Vanilla Chex, for example. It’s an updated version of the Chex cereal sold in most conventional grocery stores, and the front of the new box states that the product contains “no high fructose corn syrup.” However, if […]
“The researchers hypothesize that the effects of fructose and its byproduct, intracellular uric acid, are causing the build-up of proteins linked to Alzheimer’s disease.” ~ learn more
Instead of a State of the Union speech, “What [Ted Gioia would] really like is a “State of the Culture” speech—a hard-hitting look at music, writing, arts, media, movies, and all that. And delivered with brutal honesty.” Loaded with interesting […]
“A total of 3195 hospitals reported prices and were included in this analysis. For 15 of the 16 procedures, the median negotiated price was significantly higher at facilities within networks compared with independent hospitals.” ~ learn more
“Eight long-expired medications with 15 different active ingredients were discovered in a retail pharmacy in their original, unopened containers: All had expired 28 to 40 years prior to analysis. … Twelve of the 14 drug compounds tested (86%) were present […]
This is a podcast featuring Dr. Andy Galpin, expert in human bioenergetics and muscle physiology. The link is to the show notes, which is a great place to start. He offers a comprehensive framework for answering the question “How do […]
This is a nice short video that reinforces the benefits of gathering more data. ~ learn more
Amazon researchers paired text with images as input to drive LLM ability ever higher. And they did it with a model that’s only 770 million params (vs the 175 Billion in GPT-3.5). “Our method achieves new state-of-the-art performance on the […]
An emergent behavior of large language models: they are better able to respond to “chain of thought” prompts to reason step by step and derive more accurate answers. Google researchers: “We will show that sufficiently large language models can generate […]
I’ve been saying for years that one day millions of consumers will wake up with easy access to glucose data, and it’ll be a remarkable opportunity for nutrition awareness. “The goal of this secret endeavor — dubbed E5 — is […]