Comment Re:Setting their sights higher (Score 1) 72
I'm pretty sure investors could get behind letting chatbots run a company, given that they're more than sufficiently psychopathic and cost said investors much more money....
... essentially making companies unprofitable way faster. So efficient!!
Comment Re:There are people who love to (Score 1) 105
Another possibility is that some people are genuinely trying to understand how organizations work. And corporate-speak gives the impression of intelligence, which can be very appealing to some smart young people, who might waste some precious energy for many years trying to make sense from all that.
Before realizing it is a bag of bullshit, these younger fellas will chase some fads or people that will definitely make them less productive.
Comment Re:Resistance is futile? (Score 1) 107
The Qualcomm chief executive might think that quoting Star Trek makes them sound cool and with it, but he may want to reconsider quoting the bad guys.
100% agree. THANK YOU FOR YOUR ATTENTION TO THIS MATTER!
Submission + - Researchers completely eliminate pancreatic tumors in mice. (www.cnio.es)
fahrbot-bot writes: Mariano Barbacid, head of the Experimental Oncology Group at the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), has designed a therapy that successfully eliminates pancreatic tumours in mice completely and durably, with no significant side effects. The study is published in the journal PNAS (Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences), with Carmen Guerra as co-lead author and Vasiliki Liaki and Sara Barrambana as first authors.
Current drugs for pancreatic cancer lose effectiveness within months because the tumour becomes resistant. The group from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has been able to avoid the development of resistance in animal models with a combined triple therapy.
These results “pave the way for the design of combined therapies that may improve survival,” the authors indicate, although this will not happen in the short term. The results are published in PNAS.
Current drugs for pancreatic cancer lose effectiveness within months because the tumour becomes resistant. The group from Spain’s National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) has been able to avoid the development of resistance in animal models with a combined triple therapy.
These results “pave the way for the design of combined therapies that may improve survival,” the authors indicate, although this will not happen in the short term. The results are published in PNAS.
Comment Re:The best outcome of a tough situation (Score 0) 167
why did the student suddenly appear from behind a SUV?
Indeed.
"After the ball there will always come at least one kid" my father told me when I was learning to drive. Sometimes though, there isn't a visible ball. It could be a small butterfly, a cat in the other sidewalk, a shape in the sky... etc. That's why, when driving in areas I expect there will be kids around, I am extremely cautious when my view of the sidewalk is blocked.
It seems to me that in this case the Waymo car was not as careful as it should have been.
Comment Re:Longevity (Score 1) 45
Thanks.
Comment Re:Longevity (Score 1) 45
Provides service as advertised (pun intended).
Non native english speaker here. Where is the pun there?
Comment Re:You guys need to do something about this. (Score 1) 95
Technically incorrect, you have a giant asshole in the Oval Office, the buttplugs are in congress and they are actively trying to outdo each other to see who can get in that asshole the deepest.
I usually learn a lot from the comments here, specially from technical disagreements, where the deepest insights come to light. Having said that, I did not anticipate this amount of depth... keep up the good work!!
Comment Re:You can literally just download the whole site (Score 1) 51
Grabbing diffs from a mirror every month and updating a local copy isn't even hard, or maybe just spend an infinitesimal amount of that VC money on a Wikipedia API subscription. Sheesh.
Sure, if you really care about something other than making shitloads of money. It is a shame that there is a shitload of money to be made out of blurring the difference between facts and lies, which is precisely the opposite of what Wikipedia stands for.
Comment Finally something good! (Score 1) 42
No AI-induced job market annihilation, at least until the AI bubble collapse...
Comment Re:Business as Usual (Score 1) 103
+1 Insightful (out of mod points for now).
It may be possible to measure the real impact to some people/companies if we consider the cost of delayed transactions and some opportunity costs. But then, to be fair, you would have to include the gains of those who beneffited from this situation. More likely than not, those billions are bullshit...
Submission + - PHEVs look great on paper, but real world data says otherwise (theguardian.com)
shilly writes: PHEV manufacturers and advocates claim it’s easy to drive mainly using the cars’ batteries, keeping gas in reserve for long trips. That may be true in theory, but in practice, data from 800,000 PHEVs in Europe shows that between 2021 and 2023, these vehicles were driven using their batteries for just 27% of the time, instead of the 84% figure used in official estimates. It turns out that merely providing the option for driving on batteries in a car isn’t enough to persuade people to plug in, and that EV proponents, who have long argued that PHEVs are not a viable solution, have a point after all.
Submission + - How we sharpened the James Webb telescope's vision from a million kilometers awa (theconversation.com)
schwit1 writes: Hubble started its life seeing out of focus – its mirror had been ground precisely, but incorrectly. By looking at known stars and comparing the ideal and measured images (exactly like what optometrists do), it was possible to figure out a “prescription” for this optical error and design a lens to compensate.
The correction required seven astronauts to fly up on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1993 to install the new optics. Hubble orbits Earth just a few hundred kilometers above the surface, and can be reached by astronauts.
By contrast, Webb is roughly 1.5 million kilometers away – we can’t visit and service it, and need to be able to fix issues without changing any hardware.
This is where AMI comes in. This is the only Australian hardware on board, designed by astronomer Peter Tuthill.
It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometers of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal primary mirrors and many internal surfaces will blur the images enough to hinder the study of planets or black holes, where sensitivity and resolution are key.
AMI filters the light with a carefully structured pattern of holes in a simple metal plate, to make it much easier to tell if there are any optical misalignments.
We wanted to use this mode to observe the birth places of planets, as well as material being sucked into black holes. But before any of this, AMI showed Webb wasn’t working entirely as hoped.
The correction required seven astronauts to fly up on the Space Shuttle Endeavour in 1993 to install the new optics. Hubble orbits Earth just a few hundred kilometers above the surface, and can be reached by astronauts.
By contrast, Webb is roughly 1.5 million kilometers away – we can’t visit and service it, and need to be able to fix issues without changing any hardware.
This is where AMI comes in. This is the only Australian hardware on board, designed by astronomer Peter Tuthill.
It was put on Webb to diagnose and measure any blur in its images. Even nanometers of distortion in Webb’s 18 hexagonal primary mirrors and many internal surfaces will blur the images enough to hinder the study of planets or black holes, where sensitivity and resolution are key.
AMI filters the light with a carefully structured pattern of holes in a simple metal plate, to make it much easier to tell if there are any optical misalignments.
We wanted to use this mode to observe the birth places of planets, as well as material being sucked into black holes. But before any of this, AMI showed Webb wasn’t working entirely as hoped.
Submission + - Supershear earthquakes even more dangerous than we thought (latimes.com)
Bruce66423 writes: 'A specific type of earthquake that can cause particularly intense shaking is more common than previously believed, some scientists say — carrying potentially profound risk for communities across California, including those in the path of the notorious San Andreas fault.'
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