mclide's comments

The brilliant American Life segment with a juxtaposition of the “Greetings, People of Earth” story with reporting on ChatGPT and the Orcas creates a bricolage that may spur thoughts around questions related to our ability to recognize non-human intelligence.

See Swank used in Slime

https://github.com/slime/slime/blob/master/swank.lisp

What about medicine?

I actually used Lisp to implement an early (1995) social media platform, which provided a low barrier to entry and allowed me to try things quickly, beating the averages for a few years.

http://shiny.link/QpGMwJ

Meanwhile, "In response to legal process and to ensure Twitter remains available to the people of Turkey, we have taken action to restrict access to some content in Turkey today."

https://twitter.com/GlobalAffairs/status/1657219168863756288

Despite the lack of examples, it still completes trivial clojure like "(defn connect [" and other lisp syntax like "(define (hello" which is promising for further refinement training on Lisp languages.

Given the large number of individuals that have access to such top secret documents, it is likely that enemies already are in the know of the sensitive information. Classifying information as top secret primarily functions to prevent the general public from the knowledge unless it is leaked to the press.

By now, there is at least one other organism that can detect and act upon the signal. If farmers applies knowledge about this signal to improve their yields, plants may be selected for their ability to emit sounds under stress.

Many libraries accept book donations. That way your book will be reused, possibly also providing the library with a little bit of extra funding.

Wikipedia articles related to politics should have warning labels about bias and potential disinformation when linked from google/twitter/facebook. Entrenched activist admins and editors sabotage its ability to self-correct entries towards a neutral point of view.

A recent Chrome update shipped with a bug that damages the file system on MacOS machines with System Integrity Protection (SIP) disabled, including machines that do not support SIP. The bug affects MacOSX 10.10 and older. Symptoms include that the Admin account can no longer be accessed, with reboot halting and shutting down the computer.

If you have more consulting work than you can/should handle, increase your rates.

The concern of users becoming the product when using an ad-based business model was discussed in a 1995 paper presented at the Third International World-Wide Web conference:

"The design of a medium strongly affects the revenue model that is applied to that medium. Entrepreneurs will seek an appropriate way of creating a revenue constrained and encouraged by the media technology. One example of this relationship can be discovered through examining the different variations of the television medium. The traditional technology of broadcast made it difficult for content creators to charge individual viewers for selecting a program. This lead to revenue sought via advertising, based on making the viewers the product rather than the customers, and resulted in bland programming in an attempt to get as large an audience as possible to sell to advertisers. The technology of cable television and scrambling made it easier to charge for subscription or pay-per-view, causing more directed programming towards smaller audiences. [...] The revenue model has implications for what content will be made available on a medium as well as the quality of that content. Web technology designers can strongly impact which revenue models will be used on the web. Creating alternative revenue models is important to avoid the application of potentially harmful revenue models due to a lack of alternatives."

https://doi.org/10.1016/0169-7552(95)00039-A

The AARDA autoimmune patient advocacy organization says more than 50 million Americans suffer from an autoimmune disease, with 75% being women.

https://www.aarda.org/news-information/statistics/

See also Mount Tam Biotechnologies, a spin-off from the Buck Institute focusing on mTOR modulators, shown to extend lifespan in mice. Their initial application addresses Lupus, an autoimmune disease.

http://www.mounttambiotech.com

Correct, that's me attempting to spread the gospel of Common Lisp web server programming to what seemed like an endless mass of Apple developers at WWDC 97.

Apple invited me to present at WWDC97 as a young independent developer with a startup making software for "webmasters" on the Apple internet platform; "What cool sites use" according to Apple's marketing back then. Little did I know what a turning point it would be for Apple, although I had already placed my eggs firmly placed in their basket.

I got to demo my Common Lisp based social web application server and showcase how to extend it with dynamic, hot-loaded components. Apple said I could talk about pretty much whatever I wanted within the scope of the conference, so I included an introduction to how it used what I labeled Light Weight SGML, soon better known as XML.

It was a blast from the past seeing my presentation again 20 years later. I had prepared the slides to be displayed in a web browser, generated from extensible markup using my WebSlides tool, but my handler at Apple insisted on converting them to PowerPoint. They weren't all sold on the web eating the world yet.

Despite having a complementary ticket for the conference, I had no time to stick around, flying straight back home the day after to prepare the next product release. The following years were quite a ride, like having a tiger by the tail. Then came 2001.

The key to make sense of the data for these diseases is a record of patient’s symptoms. Assembling useful datasets is not only a question about access, but also about resolving human factors to successfully collect the essential information from patients.

A major challenge is to get a large number of patients to continuously track their symptoms. Most want to know what’s in it for them. It takes substantial incentives for people to regularly report outcomes and use wearables for data collection. Until we can make the marginal cost hit zero, they need to benefit from their efforts and investment, preferably instantly.

The test before reading/watching news is "would I read/watch this if it was a week old?" If you wouldn't, don't waste your time on it now.

Alternative title: You shall not think you're happier than we are.