Notices by RDN (rdnielsen@floss.social)

Based upon sales and death data, the rate of fire fatalities in the Tesla Cybertruck is estimated to be 17 times higher than it was for the Ford Pinto.

https://futurism.com/the-byte/cybertruck-ford-pinto-comparison

#Tesla #Cybertruck #Cars

Newly created diamond 'batteries' use carbon-14 to produce microwatt-levels of power for decades. Potential applications include implanted medical devices and instruments in spacecraft.

https://techxplore.com/news/2024-12-scientists-world-carbon-diamond-battery.html

#Science #Batteries #Carbon14

Now you see it, now you don't, now you do again. Sea snakes have regained color vision that was lost in their proximate snake ancestors.

Summary: https://phys.org/news/2024-12-sea-snakes-regain-advanced-vision.html

Original paper: https://academic.oup.com/gbe/article/16/8/evae150/7710638?login=false

#Science #Biology #Evolution #Snakes #Vision #ColorVision

A 24-year study of the effects of excess nitrogen and CO2 on grassland species composition found that over the long term, elevated CO2 in the presence of excess nitrogen increased the number of species lost. Increased dominance of some species was accompanied by loss of others.

Summary: https://phys.org/news/2024-10-grassland-elevated-tripled-species-losses.html

Original paper (not open access): https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-08066-9

#Science #Ecology #Competition #Biodiversity #CO2

Metformin, used to treat Type 2 diabetes, decreased the rate of aging in male monkeys, as measured by physiological, imaging, and histological indicators.

Summary: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2024-09-metformin-aging-male-monkeys.html

Original paper (not open access): https://www.cell.com/cell/abstract/S0092-8674(24)00914-0?_returnURL=https%3A%2F%2Flinkinghub.elsevier.com%2Fretrieve%2Fpii%2FS0092867424009140%3Fshowall%3Dtrue

So eating a dozen doughnuts a day could ultimately make you younger?

#Science #Health #Aging #Diabetes #Metformin

Averaging 168 km/h (104 mph) for 24 hours on a motorcycle--with no sleep--gets you a Guinness world record.

And on a stock Triumph Tiger. Nice bike.

https://newatlas.com/motorcycles/guinness-world-record-greatest-distance-motorcycle-24-hours/

#Motorcycles

Changing the metaphor for LLM unreliability: they're bullshitting, not hallucinating:

https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/

#AI #LLM

@gamingonlinux

Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?

@grimalkina
Forth

Leo Brodie's book 'Thinking Forth' is one of the all-time best books for learning programming.

#Programming #Forth