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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?
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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/
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Changing the metaphor for LLM unreliability: they're bullshitting, not hallucinating:
https://www.psypost.org/scholars-ai-isnt-hallucinating-its-bullshitting/
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Were you testing because of today's post on itsfoss.org saying "Please don't boost this on Mastodon"?
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@grimalkina
Forth
Leo Brodie's book 'Thinking Forth' is one of the all-time best books for learning programming.
Environmental scientist (biology/oceanography), data analyst, data manager. Semi-retired.Started programming in 1971 with FORTRAN and Basic. Started FOSS programming in the early 1980s. A trace of that work: http://www.kc85.info/index.php/magazines-mainmenu/morrow-owners-review-mainmenu-143/118-forever-z-scripts-a-loops-1.html. Now mostly working in Python; see packages 'mapdata' and 'execsql' on PyPI.Moved from @rdnielsenAvatar by @orbite
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