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WAIT A MINUTE!!! You mean Douglas Adams was actually an LLM?

Life is full of opportunities to learn. “Gotta learn something new everyday.” Here’s a bit more: There are about 6000 solitary bees that live on the NA continent. Most of them make small tunnels in the ground, and some carve holes in wood, e.g. trees, posts, etc. The ground dwelling ones on average go about 6 inches deep. So that woven plastic “landscape cloth” interferes with them. If they are beneath it when installed, they can’t get out. If they are above it they can’t make proper homes for their babies. Happy Spring!!

Good!

I had the ones mentioned off already, but just went and shut off all the ones that I don’t absolutely need notifications active. Good reminder.

This just in: Weekend Update: Kevin Nealon on the All-Drug Olympics - SNL: https://yewtu.be/watch?v=jAdG-iTilWU

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Wow! This sifting AI can do, in conjunction with bench top experimentation makes for a whole new game in drug discovery. From approx 39,000 substances for training the model, to 12 million compounds screened, to reveal 280 likely compounds, then off to the lab, and they found 2 promising candidates. Talk about finding a (2) needles in a hundred acres of haystacks!!

Citation: Discovery of a structural class of antibiotics with explainable deep learning (https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06887-8)

Can confirm, I received this message approximately 180 minutes after you sent it. Strong Work!

Cool, so a real Doctor, then. ;-) I had a thing for getting letters after my name, and reached a certain goal, then gave up on the ego.

I’m glad you were able to get the care you needed.

You mean they got a Ph.D.? ;-)

I was searching for humorous podcasts over the weekend, and found Say More with Dr.? Sheila - https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/say-more-with-dr-sheila/id1707936869 - I hope you enjoy it.

I could start spending my time bashing various professions, I suppose, but I’ve got better things to do. However, since you are obviously interesting in people being ripped off, injured or killed here’s this, the first article that came up on search from PubMed:

Our prescription drugs kill us in large numbers
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25355584/

Abstract

Our prescription drugs are the third leading cause of death after heart disease and cancer in the United States and Europe. Around half of those who die have taken their drugs correctly; the other half die because of errors, such as too high a dose or use of a drug despite contraindications. Our drug agencies are not particularly helpful, as they rely on fake fixes, which are a long list of warnings, precautions, and contraindications for each drug, although they know that no doctor can possibly master all of these. Major reasons for the many drug deaths are impotent drug regulation, widespread crime that includes corruption of the scientific evidence about drugs and bribery of doctors, and lies in drug marketing, which is as harmful as tobacco marketing and, therefore, should be banned. We should take far fewer drugs, and patients should carefully study the package inserts of the drugs their doctors prescribe for them and independent information sources about drugs such as Cochrane reviews, which will make it easier for them to say “no thanks”.

It is a free article, so you can read the whole thing, if you wish to be better informed.

The second one is from US News and World Report:

Death by Prescription
https://health.usnews.com/health-news/patient-advice/articles/2016-09-27/the-danger-in-taking-prescribed-medications

Enjoy.

YSK that Medical Doctors are also not Chiropractors. This is why the letters after their names are different. M.D. means Medical Doctor, and D.C. means Doctor of Chiropractic. The major differences in their educations being Surgery, and Drugs for the MDs, and Nutrition, Physical Therapy, Manual Therapy are studied more by DCs. Depending on licensure laws both can order imaging, laboratory testing, and prescribe massage or physical therapy. Also the MD will only have 3-7 minutes to spend with you, and the DC will have much more time to do intake, history, therapy, and to explain what is going on with you and what can be done to improve your situation. Here’s a fun fact for ya, some of the injuries attributed to joint manipulation, and this is well documented, were from barbers, kung fu teachers, and yes, MDs and PTs who went to a weekend course in manipulation, instead of the numerous semesters of learning that a DC will have as part of their normal coursework.

@NataliePortland, what’s your issue? Why do you care so much about this particular topic?

I love the stability of the Tadpole (2 wheels front, 2 wheel rear) configuration.

“The Veemo can be preordered now, by placing a US$250 deposit on its full price of $6,199. If everything goes according to plan, shipping should take place next April.” Whoa!!!

Ok, after a moment to recover from sticker shock, I looked up these:

https://www.hypertrike.org/ - materials 200EUR/200$, labor is on you.

Were I to have a spare $6K burning a proverbial hole in my metaphorical pocket, I’d prolly go with a Mango Sport - https://www.sinnerbikes.com/en/modellen/mango/3515-2/

And a page about Tadpole Recumbent Trikes: https://tadpolerider.com/category/velomobiles/

I use DDG, tho’ it’s with a VPN. And it seems to work just fine. shrug

I wonder what the effect of the estimated 1 billion regular bicycles is on cutting demand for oil?

https://www.bicycle-guider.com/bike-facts-stats/

Many towns have put money and effort into bike/pedestrian paths. Using those I can usually avoid a majority of car traffic. Actively choosing less traffic’d routes should also improve safety.

eh, it looks like 99%, it can go a little bit longer.