Various web links I found to be of interest recently.
PBS News Hour, Audio and Transcript
And when it's time for those proteins to be renewed, it helps. It's called the heat shock response. And this was something that we saw changed across multiple tissues, across all the tissues, as you mentioned, lungs, skeletal muscle, not just the ones that you might expect. We would expect perhaps skeletal muscle and heart, for sure.
But we were seeing changes in the kidney, in the adrenal gland, in the intestine, in the brain. And I think that begins to get at how exercise is just such a remarkable intervention, essentially helping with, for example, reducing the risk of heart disease by 50 percent, reducing the list of many cancers by 50 percent and more, reducing the risk of back pain.
The paper wanted to take away his newsletter or make him write less frequently, he says.
Of his former employer, he said, "I'm sure they were sorry to lose me. I never had the sense that they were trying to push me out. But they were exerting a very heavy hand on what went out under my name."
You can continue to read Krugman columns at: Paul Krugman on substack.
Donald Trump's inauguration signaled a new alliance-for now - with some of the world's wealthiest men.
Even as Silicon Valley elites try to ingratiate themselves with the incoming president, some of Trump's populist supporters are murmuring that the emerging tech oligarchy is diluting the purity of the MAGA base. Steve Bannon, a former adviser to Trump who has clashed in recent weeks with Musk over immigration policy, has fashioned himself as the field general for a fight against the tech bros and their outsize influence on a president eager to cut deals.
"He's got them on display as 'I kicked their ass.' I'm stunned that these nerds don't get anything to be up there," Bannon told us last week, referring to the tech leaders appearing in prime camera position at Trump's inauguration. "It's like walking into Teddy Roosevelt's lodge and seeing the mounted heads of all the big game he shot."
AI "alignment" is a buzzword, not a feasible safety goal.
My proof suggests that "adequately aligned" LLM behavior can only be achieved in the same ways we do this with human beings: through police, military and social practices that incentivize "aligned" behavior, deter "misaligned" behavior and realign those who misbehave. My paper should thus be sobering. It shows that the real problem in developing safe AI isn't just the AI-it's us. Researchers, legislators and the public may be seduced into falsely believing that "safe, interpretable, aligned" LLMs are within reach when these things can never be achieved.
To usher in a new class of machine learning for scientific data, building models that can leverage shared concepts across disciplines. We aim to develop, train, and release such foundation models for use by researchers worldwide.
Last year, 10,000 sham papers had to be retracted by academic journals, but experts think this is just the tip of the iceberg.
Women pop performers lead the charge in the US
The shift is led by six women who dominated pop's streams in the U.S.:
Rachel Shabi in The Guardian
Israel uses it to silence critics of its Gaza war while the right uses it
to attack opponents. Meanwhile, the issue itself goes unaddressed.
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If antisemitism is so blatantly wielded as a political weapon, it creates
the impression of a fundamental unseriousness about the subject.
Dedicating endless column inches to campus protests over Gaza is shifting
the spotlight, not just away from the devastation in the Palestinian strip,
but away from the dangerous antisemitism coming from the far right.-
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Sad. So many great memories of working (and playing) there.
The sprawling Murray Hill campus on Mountain Avenue was a bustling
center for innovation in suburban Union County for decades. It served
as the headquarters for a 90-year-old company whose researchers
helped earn 10 Nobel Prizes, five Turing Awards for computer science
breakthroughs and more than 20,000 patents.
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Bell Labs' new headquarters will be located at the HELIX innovation center
in New Brunswick. Originally known as "The Hub," the HELIX innovation
center will be a large complex in the city's downtown on the site
of the former Ferren Mall.