Also of interest today. Perhaps vit D is actually NOT a placebo. This deserves a phase 3 with some new mechanism for patent (depot vit D?).

People love to learn about the invention of the t test.

of all the species in the world, in the modern era we only try to extinguish a vanishingly small fraction of those less sophisticated than us, and we try to preserve quite a few. why would we think AI, which is trained on the human corpus, would treat us any different when it

homelab now has an air filter

RIP clyde hutchison, the biologist who missed two nobel prizes

solved. 😭 #myelixirstatus

Btw, if you enjoyed reading about Amgen's patent war against Sanofi, here's another pharma showdown worth the popcorn: Eli Lilly vs. the FDA. Lilly's suing because they desperately want their Phase 3 weight loss drug retatrutide classified as a biologic, not a regular drug.

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can't stop laughing about this

pardon for the zigler 0.15.1 delay, but I'm struggling a bit with cross-compilation into windows-msvc but it should get resolved soon! #ziglang #myelixirstatus

I typed "claude --continue", it compacted the conversation and immediately sent me into the 5 hour purgatory 🙃 #anthropic #claude

unpopular opinion: I'm all for onshoring but the rare earths crisis is not a crisis. us DOD consumes like ~1% of REE and the us supplies like 10% of world REE. If we were cut off from the biggest supplier the following things would happen: - some things would get more

throwback to the honest periodic table I made #chemistry