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nomel··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
Because vitamin d is produced by sun. Light skin means less sun is required. I suggest a cursory look into vitamin d production [1], to more align your perspective to accepted science.

[1] also covers evolution of skin tone https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitamin_D

nomel··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
That's why I say solenoid, not speaker.
nomel··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Feel free to share your detection method!
nomel··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
Then you're blocking most people that sign in with Apple or Google, which is what Reddit first suggests. It's still probably a reasonable filter, for tech related people, but not in general
nomel··on Does Reddit have an astroturfing problem? What the data suggests
> Thin accounts: few comments, low scores, no real standing in the subreddit.

> Young accounts, or accounts with histories that are hidden or wiped.

Nope, this is no longer an indicator of a bot account. Many that I've looked into will have active posts to local town/region subreddits (often times multiple!) and different sports subreddits, sometimes getting unusually high amounts of karma in them (which suggests a network).

Turing test is looong dead, so no reason to assume the small fractions of a cent to make comments, to get a reasonable history, isn't being taken advantage of.

nomel··on US jury says Apple owes record $5.7B in haptic technology patent case
It's literally a voice coil with a mass on it. Literally anyone who has ever played with a solenoid, and hooked it up to a speaker, has made one. I did it when I was a kid, decades ago, and watched it vibrate on the table and in my hand. When I tried the first haptic thing I knew exactly how they did it. It's so incredibly obvious I don't understand how it's even patentable, with all the prior "make thing vibrate with electromagnet" work.

It's not really "high tech", it's just tuned well, with some high power for the size.

nomel··on Fourier Analysis: Drawing Llamas with Circles
If you put a read head at the tip that that could increment the phase of some circle from reading some dot it previously put down, or some similar scheme, could you make circles Turing complete?
nomel··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
> Do people in Europe have brittle bones?

And, now you've discovered why Europeans have light skin [1]! And, why supplementation is suggested for those with dark skin [2] living in regions with light skinned natives!

[1] https://www.science.org/content/article/how-europeans-evolve...

> But the likely explanation for the pigmentation genes is to maximize vitamin D synthesis

[2] https://www.cooperinstitute.org/blog/african-americans-at-gr...

nomel··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Not all responses are a counterarguments. That one was very clearly supporting, anecdotal, evidence.
nomel··on Toyota is taking the Corolla electric
I had level 1, but it was just ridiculously slow. Still charging on a Tuesday, from going low the weekend before, was stupid, and made me unable to go some places. If you go above your average, it super sucks. I don't want to fill up, and I don't want to sit 10x longer than filling up with gas, at a charging station.
nomel··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
> Where I live the norm is 20 ng/L

How did they come to this?

Seems like a reasonable measure would be to look at a native person, from ones lineage, having a relatively average pre-industrial day.

If lineage doesn't matter, and all humans are the same, you could probably just go sample some tribe members that still lives mostly outdoors, outside of developed society.

And, regardless, I'll listen to my doctor.

nomel··on Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?
Picking the wrong berry from a bush isn't so difficult. Ask me how I know. And, for my second encounter, don't think because you see an animal eating it, it's safe!
nomel··on Creatine uptake enhances antitumor immunity
And, if you drink a glass of carrot juice a day, you'll receive toxic levels of vitamin A!

~40% of people don't get enough vitamin D [1]. It's not useful to categorize it as some trend, based on people just not following general recommended dosing (with more precise dosing depending entirely on personal sun exposure and skin color).

edit: As an office worker, I take 10k IU per day when I'm entirely indoors (most of the time), but vary it based on sun exposure. I based this on recent studies, and have my doctors approval with an exactly center-of-the-nominal-range vitamin D serum level.

[1] https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC9573946/

nomel··on The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
And, omg, you can buy an active version on amazon, for this exact purpose: sunblock coverage check!

https://www.amazon.com/s?k=uv+mirror+for+sunscreen+test

nomel··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
Is there a good book where I can learn the words to describe the color blue, to a blind person?

Some things are entirely outside of language. Language usually works fine only because most words are encodings of thought patterns that are already present in both parties.

Does an LLM know what blue is? A multimodal LLM probably does, because it has encoders for non-language tokens!

nomel··on Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
> almost nobody provide thinking text anymore.

Isn't the goal to be able to "debug" and identify alignment issues?

nomel··on GitHub has not removed malicious imitation software after 3 weeks
You can have copyright open source code, which is what allows open source licenses to enforce their terms. Open source doesn't mean "free to do whatever you want". There are very restrictive open source licenses, and you can deviate from the common open source licenses.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_copyright

nomel··on Fertility rate dropped over 50% within 10 years in Argentina
This completely and entirely ignores what was actually happening in Argentina over the past 10 years, and I think the reason is the same as everywhere else: cost of living is too high. Argentina was in a state of hyperinflation in 2023.
nomel··on The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
Video with a UV camera is interesting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9tEEDpeJoo

Black means absorbed, of course.

nomel··on OpenAI GPT–6 Astra breaks Enigma message that has resisted solution since 2005
> (ChatGPT can run scripts on OpenAI's servers, but it has a 45 second execution limit.)

Is there some temporary storage where you could pause and resume unlimited 44 second runs?

nomel··on GPT-6 Sol and Luna
I think some additional value would be had by seeing how well it can modify the pelican.

Like, "now facing left", "sitting on the handlebars", or "with green spokes" to see if it can break out of some pretty obvious statistics in the training data!

And, there's always asking for an STL rather than an SVG!

nomel··on Can gzip be a language model?
I think this would be the exact opposite. This model would be optimized to only output your information.
nomel··on The UV index is not the warm sensation of sunlight on bare skin
I don't know about this. I can feel where there are holes in my sunblock (which only block UV) which lets me know where to apply it, and the sensation is not one of heat of the sun, it's different. I'm not sure about the mechanism, but the presence of the sunblock stops the "UV" type sensation. This from the moment I put it on to long after the water component of the sunblock has evaporated. And, the type of sunblock doesn't matter (the drier waterproof kind or various lotion varieties). And, I do notice a difference between the different SPF, along with some "bad" sunblock that I just kept applying but couldn't make the feeling go away (it had apparently separated, and everyone that used it was burned).

I think the "real" test would be to just shine a UV light in a dark room, to see if the source can be identified while blindfolded, or something.

nomel··on Claude Opus 5.5
In those specific domains, sure. What percentage of paying users would you say that is?
nomel··on Can gzip be a language model?
If you consider them lossy compression, then yes.

The goal would be to find the minimum model that, with a fixed seed, would exactly reproduce your text.

nomel··on I asked Meta’s Muse for its filesystem and it sent me 6.8GB
As a user, yes please.
nomel··on Looking forward to Git 2.56 – and 3.0
I don't know much about this. How does that enable vulnerabilities exactly?
nomel··on Systemd is a suite of basic building blocks
There's no shortage of information sharing though. Have you actually looked, at all? There are lectures [1], books [2], documentation [3], and countless personal pages [4].

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxhJA2uRr_g

[2] https://opensource.com/downloads/pragmatic-guide-systemd-lin...

[3] https://systemd.io

[4] https://medium.com/@sebastiancarlos/systemds-nuts-and-bolts-...

nomel··on NASA’s Mars Sample Return mission is dead
Note: They DID do analysis on these samples, on site. They didn't just dig them up and leave them there, as suggested.
nomel··on Grok 4.7
Can it be reduced to ion concentrations? Because that's how we perceive it. A useful perception is all that really matters.
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