Except what we get with the ancient records regarding willow bark were just what we’d expect with folk medicine: anecdotal claims that it treats a wide range of ailments without any proposed mechanism of action.

It wasn’t until willow extract was actually made into a pharmaceutical that it became anywhere near useful. That willow tea you’re imagining ancient people drank didn’t actually exist and if it did, they were not getting enough salicylic acid from it to equal even a single aspirin.

https://theconversation.com/hippocrates-and-willow-bark-what-you-know-about-the-history-of-aspirin-is-probably-wrong-148087

In short, aspirin follows the above rule: alternative medicine was proven to work, and then became medicine. But the end result is far detached from how it was used thousands of years before it was actually shown to work.

I typed that comment while I was on the toilet last night 7 minutes before my bedtime. So no, I can’t simply put a video into chipmunk mode and watch for an unscheduled 30 minutes. That’s longer than the actual 25 minute show my wife and I watched in bed.

1:15:23

No thanks.

Pinebook Pro is rather nice, though it is low powered and some tasks will feel slow on it.

Yes, it’s a license. But nothing is to stop you for making your own free community-driven game under that license.

That’s essentially what the ORC License does. Paizo wrote it, but then gave it to a law firm that represents several developers so no one RPG owns it.

IMO it’s one of the stupider bluffs because no one expects Texas to actually do it and it would hurt them more than it would hurt the rest of the US.

Either that or run on a platform people actually want to vote for, but yeah the destroying democracy thing is probably easier.

I like to tell dad jokes.

Sometimes, he laughs.

Pretty much exactly this:

https://youtu.be/KJJW7EF5aVk

Yep, exactly.

As a doctor who’s into tech, before we implemented something like AI-assisted diagnostics, we’d have to consider what the laziest/least educated/most tired/most rushed doctor would do. The tools would have to be very carefully implemented such that the doctor is using the tool to make good decisions, not harmful ones.

The last thing you want to do is have a doctor blindly approve an inappropriate order suggested by an AI without applying critical thinking and causing harm to a real person because the machine generated a factually incorrect output.

Lol do it! 26/38 of their Representatives and both their Senators are Republicans.

Goodbye House majority, goodbye Senate filibuster, goodbye any chance of a Trump victory this year. Even just 1 year of them disappearing means Democrats could get a whole lot done before they start crawling back.

Ok, well I didn’t come up with the system so please write to the heads of science to get it changed.

Exactly. The NFL is the one of the most popular programs on all of tv, and they’re not looking to jeopardize it. Amazon alone pays the NFL a whopping $1 billion per year for the privilege of streaming the crummy Thursday night time slot.

It was a huge scandal in 2015 when the New England Patriots was accused of intentionally underinflating their footballs to make it slightly easier to catch, leading to a $1 million fine, a four game suspension for Tom Brady, and losing two draft selections. All that over a slightly flat football. The idea that they’d intentionally rig an entire match and risk losing their massive media cash cow is, well, stupid.

It is fixed. Your ruler shows 1.0, and then you estimate 1 digit past to 1.00 +/- 0.01.

According to the study, the job tasks most likely to be impacted by AI in the film and TV industry are 3-D modeling, character and environment design, voice generation and cloning and compositing, followed by sound design, tools programming, script writing, animation and rigging, concept art/visual development and light/texture generation.

This was in a survey of industry leaders: the people likely to be making the decision of how many humans to hire vs. how much to rely on AI.

Whoops, fixed.

In the real world, you’re measuring with significant figures.

You draw a 1 cm line with a ruler. But it’s not really 1 cm. It’s 0.9998 cm, or 1.0001, or whatever. The accuracy will get better if you have a better ruler: if it goes down to mm you’ll be more accurate than if you only measure in cm, and even better if you have a nm ruler and magnification to see where the lines are.

When you go to measure the hypotenuse, the math answer for a unit 1 side triangle is 1.414213562373095… . However, your ruler can’t measure that far. It might measure 1.4 cm, or 1.41, or maybe even 1.414, but you’d need a ruler with infinite resolution to get the math answer.

Let’s say your ruler can measure millimeters. You’d measure your sides as 1.00 cm, 1.00 cm, and 1.41 cm (the last digit is the visual estimate beyond the mm scoring.) Because that’s the best your ruler can measure in the real world.

Indeed. As is Lizzo, as long as your kids can handle a little profanity.

I was making a joke about Swifties. ;)