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Huge, and surprising, and important: dementia is down by almost half over the last 40-50y! (Also reconfirms that amyloid beta was largely a red herring, APOE4 is real, and – news to me – the shingles vaccine seems preventative!)
Occam’s razor: all things being equal, the correct answer is the simplest. It’s a maxim that’s used in all walks of life, but utilised especially in medical diagnoses. And while TV programmes like House M.D. show diagnostic teams...
Movie night. We watched Civil War. Very intense. Made me think of the James Nachtwey documentary I saw a long time ago. Need to find it and watch it again. The family and I also went to IKEA earlier in the day. It rained. 👉 View 2 more...
Fluffy.
Al-powered vulnerability-discovery tools may ultimately give defenders a significant advantage. For now, however, they are also exposing a more immediate problem: even the largest software vendors may be unable to remediate...
I am shocked — shocked! — to find a zoomer “AI investor” caught swimming naked at the first turn of the tide: Aschenbrenner, who had no previous trading experience before starting the fund, worked for the FTX Future Fund, the...
Describing a program I developed for comparing or generating flowcharts with/from a C program.
Photo by Jp Valery on Unsplash🍕 I’m JA Westenberg. I write essays about technology, philosophy, productivity, and what it means to be human. If you like ideas that take their time, you’re in the right place.While you’re here, a few...
If you read Waxy.org entirely via RSS, you may not have noticed that I’ve refreshed the site a bit. Or even if you visit it, you may not have noticed! I’ve made a bunch of small incremental changes over the last few weeks. Nothing major,...
If you're a regular around here then you know that Moss Man is my favorite Masters of the Universe character. I'm nuts about the guy and I'm always down for a new Moss Man figure. I'm even down for guys who kind of remind me of Moss Man,...
I found Blaugust following a Mastodon tag and took part in it for the first time last year. I enjoyed the sense of community and the many new blogs I visited. I found plenty of interesting posts and thoughts to read. I can't wait to...
Dr. Bongo’s plan is to destroy the World, with only hours before his devastating missiles are launched you locate his position. Your mission is to stop him and be the World’s No. 1 hero. — From Sinclair User, March 1983 Custom Software...
I was a consultant for 23 years before I joined OpenSesame as their VP of Engineering. Now, three years later, I’m returning to consulting. I enjoyed my time as VP. It gave me the opportunity to see my work play out over the long term,...
. "Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART, by Jacob Wren Wren's book is a sort of biography of his performance art group PME-ART. His account of their work, whose aim is stripping away theatricality and “being yourself in a...
Every morning, I wake up to meet a version of myself I've never seen. A gradual awakening, a shedding marked by one strand of insignificant hair to another, cells in your body dying and forming in every passing second. I've been cleaning...