#biological

[ansy1984]

Anthropic adviser says it's "not hypothetical" that AI could abet biological weapons risk

CBS News contributor Chris Krebs, who ran CISA in the first Trump administration, and Ben Buchanan, who advised President Biden and is now a professor at Johns Hopkins and an adviser to Anthropic, joined “Face the Nation with Margaret Brennan” to discuss whether the government should regulate AI — and if so, how it should be regulated. Source link

Anthropic adviser says it's "not hypothetical" that AI could abet biological weapons risk

[galheadline]

Chasing Smallest of Light

Six years.

Trying everything I could and taking any doorway of opportunity, but finding a new challenge one after another. It starts to wear on you. Starts to take pieces of you. Ever sinking deeper into the dark abyss of the unknown to fog trying to make sense of it all.

It truly felt that each path came to a dead end, that I had to keep changing directions or shifting my path. Juggling my health, routine, and goals all at once- while not having the environment to properly grow myself. The mountainous of challenges has been sharing the space with my mother, it turned what was suppose to be six years of growth into six years of struggle.

It wasn't that she was a bad person, but she dominated the home. My efforts to learn about my chronic illness met with lack of effort to pay attention to it or denial of what I researched. Voicing that I needed a specific routine to help manage my life, as well, met with lack of effort to be considerate of that sort of efforts. There wasn't much I could do or places I could go anymore. She worked from home alongside me. The economy was no longer friendly to anybody with barely anything to their name yet. Me and my boyfriend weren't anywhere near considering marriage; not that we had the stability in finance or jobs to make that happen for another handful of years. If we stay together that is.

My relationship has been the most blessed gift in my life, yet also the most heavily weighed. Nothing is wrong with him. Nothing is wrong with us. However, he wants his own children. Sadly, I am on the fence with that choice as I am nearing inches to my thirties; yet to even scratch the surface of life, having lived within the same four walls most of life. A complicated matter mixed between finance, self choices, and lack of choices all wrapped together. I'm wanting to live life, to explore, and be unbound by any other large responsibilities such as being a mother. Mother hood is a pride I would refuse to allow myself to do wrong, because a child is a life to nurture and care. The worst of my nightmares, becoming a resentful and spiteful mother towards what would be my own child; all because of being within another four wall majority of what youth I had left.

All of this... I have yet to share with him. Not on purpose to keep him, but because of his line of work means I can't treat him like any regular person. I've tried to bring up the topics, he sadly hasn't been ready to have them just yet. Heck, I haven't even met his parents just yet. Something I am completely fine with, seeing as his mother would be the smothering type once she learned of me, but he likely sees as something very personal to do with me. A sort of, big sign in the sky that he's nearly ready to propose when it happens. If it happens.

Again, at some point when he is ready we'll have to discuss it. Likely, I may have to accept letting him go if children is a stronger desire over myself. I won't hold a grudge or spite him over it, because I get it. I truly do.

Right now I am about to make a large life change. Another one to add to the tally just to try to make all of this work. I'm going to see about a part time job.

As much as I wanted to make my small business at home work, the first few years out of the six being the hardest do to lack of most things, the rest have had little to almost no growth. Due to lengths of reasons in of themselves at this point. Something I can't deny is needing freedom. There is medication I need to pay for, desires I wish to invest in, afford to see more of the world, and maybe one day find my own place. Not that I'll give up on my goal, just means this will challenge my relationship with my darling and challenge myself.

The core reason I wished to have worked from home with my own business was due to needing it for my chronic illness. It's to the point that I need a total life style management and strong medication to even strike at the tip of healing any of it. Nothing as bad as IronMouse, but even while doing my own business can K.O. myself due to how bad fatigue with brain fog can hit me. It's not the direction I want to go. It'll change the entire chess board that I'll have to figure out all over again. How to handle my meals, handle managing the said small business, managing my stress, my fatigue- everything.

The strongest desire right now... is just to live.

Have money to afford my hobbies. Afford to travel outside my house. Afford seeing my love and staying with him. Afford helping to pay going places with my Papa. Everything.

Hopefully one day I'll find something that strikes gold. Something I can have that lets me live in total freedom to care after my body and my mind, but as well have all the pride of my hard work and heart put into it.

Right now, I'm just trying not to drown...

[dr-afsaeed]

3D bioprinted in vitro models in cancer metabolism research - Research

Cancer metabolism is a central field in oncology, strongly serving as critical adaptation mechanism driving tumour progression, therapeutic response, and patient prognosis. The complexity of tumour metabolism remains difficult to mimic using conventional experimental conditions. Preclinical models, including in vitro 2D cultures and in vivo animal models, often fail to accurately reproduce the…

[yesteryearfloral]

“Plants can be affected by stray voltage, and they may show stunted growth, deformed growth, or go dormant. In extreme cases they may die.”

― Steven Magee, Electrical Forensics

[knickknat]

I hate whenever I hear shit like “purple/red/pink eyes don’t actually occur in humans. That’s just the blood vessels in the back of the eyes in albino people causing a purple/red/pink effect”

Bitch, that means their eyes ARE purple/red/pink. If they LOOK that color, they ARE that color.

All eye pigment is the same color. It’s just the concentration and manner in which it’s suspended in the eye that causes color variation.

Color is technically a human construct, so shut the fuck up.

[ansy1984]

Democrats revolt over 'biological' wording in women's history museum bill

NEWYou can now listen to Fox News articles! House Democrats unanimously rebelled against legislation Thursday directing the construction of a new women’s history museum on the National Mall. Democrats sought to defeat the bill after Republicans limited the institution to biological women and excluded transgender individuals.  The measure came up short in a vote of 204-216 after a handful of…

Democrats revolt over 'biological' wording in women's history museum bill

[dr-afsaeed]

Identifiability in Epidemic Models with Prior Immunity and Under-Reporting - Research

Identifiability is the property in mathematical modelling that determines if model parameters can be uniquely estimated. For infectious disease models, failure to ensure identifiability can lead to misleading parameter estimates and unreliable policy recommendations. We examine the identifiability of a modified Susceptible-Infectious-Recovered (SIR) model that accounts for under-reporting and…