Author: robert.adlington

I recognize that many of these communications are online, and thus they are “thinner” than many more local, face-to-face relationships. Yet I do end up meeting most of these people, and with great pleasure. That, in turn, enhances the quality of the online communications. And frankly, if forced to choose, I would rather have thinner…

My top choice for this kind of thing in 2025 is GitHub, using GitHub Pages. It’s free for public repositories and I haven’t seen GitHub break a working URL that they have hosted in the 17+ years since they first launched. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/28/give-it-away-for-free/

Scans of children’s brains McCrory has undertaken using functional magnetic resonance imaging have shown that “sustained exposure to abuse, including verbal abuse, leads to significant biological alterations in the brain’s structure and function”, he said. It can alter both the “threats” and “rewards” circuits in a child’s brain, which play a key role in helping…

« Jusqu’à maintenant, la FDA approuvait des thérapies contre le cancer en fonction de l’organe touché initialement, comme par exemple le poumon ou le sein », a expliqué le docteur Richard Pazdur, directeur par intérim des produits hématologiques et oncologiques au centre d’évaluation des médicaments de la FDA. « Nous avons désormais approuvé un traitement sur la base…

Avant de confier craindre l’avènement d’une société où les individus, las des risques et des responsabilités qu’implique l’engagement IRL, renonceraient massivement aux béguins, crushs et autres embrasements entre humains. Et cela au profit d’un compagnonnage numérique si réconfortant qu’il en devient d’ores et déjà, parfois, obsédant. — Read on www.lemonde.fr/m-perso/article/2025/04/26/la-digi-romance-ou-comment-tomber-amoureux-d-une-ia-ca-a-commence-comme-une-blague-avant-de-devenir-serieux_6600194_4497916.html

Chaque année, plus de 20 millions de nouveaux cas sont diagnostiqués à travers la planète, rapporte l’Organisation mondiale de la santé. Avec un décès sur six qui lui est attribué, le cancer est ainsi la deuxième cause de mortalité dans le monde, derrière les maladies cardiovasculaires. En France, c’est même l’ennemi public numéro un, 25 % des…

In any case, you could not do “one shot” with the oracle — you had to put a bit of effort into it.  If you simply approached them and asked for a prophecy of the future (and did nothing else) you would get no meaningful response.  In contemporary terminology, you needed a bit of prompting.…

we don’t know why, but we have tried to talk separately, but it’s not ourselves, it’s not us — Read on kottke.org/25/04/twins-speaking-twins-speaking-in-unison-in-unison

Coren adapted tests used for human infants to research dogs’ language-learning abilities. “We found that the average dog has a mental age of between two and two-and-a-half years [in human terms],” he says, one of his dogs barking in the background. “The super-dogs, the upper 20% in terms of intelligence, have a mental age of…

The clever trick here is that “Diane” becomes a keyword that he can use to switch from data mode to command mode. He can say “Diane I meant to include that point in the last section. Please move it” as part of a stream of consciousness and Claude will make those edits as part of…