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#WTF ?! - From #MIT #Techonology Review: "Inside the stealthy startup that pitched brainless human clones"
https://www.technologyreview.com/2026/03/30/1134780/r3-bio-brainless-human-clones-full-body-replacement-john-schloendorn-aging-longevity/ -
For the week of 2023-01-30, the #MapPromptMonday is about making #FlowMaps, so I took one of the books I love when I was a kid: "Around the world in 80 days" by #JulesVerne, and made a map of the route taken by the protagonists, using data from #WikiVoyage.
#Rstats code at: https://github.com/jmcastagnetto/my_map_prompt_monday/tree/main/2023-01-30_flow-map
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From #BBC: "Largest study of its kind shows #AI assistants misrepresent news content 45% of the time – regardless of language or territory"
https://www.bbc.com/mediacentre/2025/new-ebu-research-ai-assistants-news-content
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From #MIT Sloan: "#Enshittification Comes to ‘Smart’ Products"
"... Companies that exploit digital control of their products to extract additional value risk degrading customers’ experiences ..."
https://sloanreview.mit.edu/article/enshittification-comes-to-smart-products/
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#Data and #map of the #floods going on in the north of #Peru (#Piura and #Lambayeque) by @UNOSAT.
Data at: https://data.humdata.org/dataset/water-extents-over-lambayeque-and-piura-province-provinces-peru-as-of-22-march-2023Map image from PDF at: https://unosat.org/static/unosat_filesystem/3542/UNOSAT_A3_Portrait_EQ20230321PER_LambayequePiura_23MAR2023.pdf
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#TIL about a #NASEM publication:
"Understanding and Addressing #Misinformation About #Science" -
An interesting online and in person event by the #NASEM #USA "Workshop on Technology for #Data Stewardship" https://www.nationalacademies.org/event/44430_02-2025_workshop-on-technology-for-data-stewardship
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A good take on #Dawkins suffering from #AIPsychosis thinking that #Claude is sentient:
"Richard Dawkins and The Claude Delusion"
https://garymarcus.substack.com/p/richard-dawkins-and-the-claude-delusion
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"#Freenginx: A #Fork of #Nginx" (The New Stack)
https://thenewstack.io/freenginx-a-fork-of-nginx/
'... The Freenginx Web server aims to recapture the spirit of open source development "for the public good," free from corporate control ...'
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About the importance of just one word in biasing text classification
"A new way to test how well #AI systems classify text"
https://news.mit.edu/2025/new-way-test-how-well-ai-systems-classify-text-0813
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From #HiddenLayer: "Novel #Universal #Bypass for All Major #LLMs"
https://hiddenlayer.com/innovation-hub/novel-universal-bypass-for-all-major-llms/
An attack that they claim works with all major LLMs: #Claude, #ChatGPT, #Gemini, #Copilot, #Llama, #Deepseek, #Mistral and #Qwen -- and makes use of #l33tsp34k :-)
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The Guardian: ‘At the private hospital, the disrespect was just more subtle’: a tale of America’s two healthcare systems
https://www.theguardian.com/wellness/2024/jan/23/us-hospital-segregation-racism-public-private
"... I can count on one hand the number of times anyone broke the silence about the existing #segregated system of healthcare. When someone did, it was usually a Black person or person of color ..."
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"Who will maintain the #web when PHP’s veterans retire?"
... A new Perforce report finds PHP's #developer base is aging out faster than it's being replenished — and #AI-generated code may be making the problem worse, not better ...
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An interesting article on the different approaches to #StatisticalModeling: "Statistical Modeling: The Three Cultures" https://hdsr.mitpress.mit.edu/pub/uo4hjcx6/release/1
#statistics #modeling #CausalInference #prediction #ai #ML #MachineLearning
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"Nations agree landmark treaty on traditional #knowledge, protecting Indigenous Peoples’ rights"
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For this week's #MapPromptMonday, about environmental disasters, I have used data from #OEFA (oversees and sanctions #environmental accidents/disasters in #Peru)
Here are three maps showing the affected areas, and number of sanctions received by the top 3 sanctioned #oil companies in Peru: "Savia Peru", "PlusPetrol", and "Petroleos del Peru (#PetroPeru)"#Rstats code: https://github.com/jmcastagnetto/my_map_prompt_monday/tree/main/2023-03-27_recent-enviromental-disaster
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From #Nature: "Mapping #pesticide mixtures to #cancer #risk at the country scale with #spatial #spatial #exposomics"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00087-0
'... these findings strongly support a mechanistic link between pesticide exposure and cancer ..."
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From #Nature: "Mapping #pesticide mixtures to #cancer #risk at the country scale with #spatial #spatial #exposomics"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00087-0
'... these findings strongly support a mechanistic link between pesticide exposure and cancer ..."
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From #Nature: "Mapping #pesticide mixtures to #cancer #risk at the country scale with #spatial #spatial #exposomics"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00087-0
'... these findings strongly support a mechanistic link between pesticide exposure and cancer ..."
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From #Nature: "Mapping #pesticide mixtures to #cancer #risk at the country scale with #spatial #spatial #exposomics"
https://www.nature.com/articles/s44360-026-00087-0
'... these findings strongly support a mechanistic link between pesticide exposure and cancer ..."
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From #OWID: "#Deforestation is no longer inevitable"
https://ourworldindata.org/data-insights/deforestation-is-no-longer-inevitable
#Data seems to indicate that when the pressure subsides, the forests recover.