Just learned that fluvoxamine, a common SSRI used to treat depression and other psychiatric conditions, increases the half-life of caffeine in the bloodstream.
Like, to an absurd degree:
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1/ Today, we are announcing our inaugural 2022 one-year fellowship. We have a single goal for the fellowship: to provide maximal leverage to talented young scientists who are working on ambitious ideas in the basic life sciences. You can apply here:
^ my nonprofit has launched a new fellowship
.@midjourney is another level
This was the output to the prompt: "Science the Endless Frontier book cover"
Gonna start a @midjourney thread because this software has permanently changed how I process visual culture
I also find it very interesting that both largest rebellions in Russian history were not only raised by Cossacks, but by Cossacks from the exactly same village (stanitsa) - Zimoveyskaya, now Pugachevskaya. This isn't an accident. That's the power of mythos and why memory matters
Rule of thumb: lower nobility hates higher nobility. They aren't dumb and won't tell it publicly, but privately, in between, that's *the* main topic of their conversation when higher nobility isn't around. Lower nobility wants to become higher nobility, eliminating the higher ups
^ thread
How come generations of researchers missed the importance of Ca2+ release for LTP? When you patch a neuron, ER gets damaged and all intracellular signaling is broken. All-optical experiments show the real synaptic physiology!
science.org/doi/10.1126/sc…
Funny thing about going to a smaller company from big tech, is I’m suddenly missing all the process and review that used to drive me insane. People rly just be making insane decisions with no one to tell them to stop.
Whenever you hear breathless media reports about cities drowning due to climate change remember that 33% of the Netherlands lies below sea level. Land reclamation began when the Netherlands was less developed than Bangladesh is today.
I used OpenAI’s newest code model to make simple versions of games like Wordle, VR mazes and Zelda ENTIRELY through natural language.
I told it what I wanted and did ZERO editing/coding.
Post with demos: andrewmayneblog.wordpress.com/2022/03/17/bui…
nice, been missing these.