albertoreale.bsky.social
MD PhD, postdoc doing translational research on viral vectors for cancer, vaccines, and genetic diseases. Also, big history and ancient languages nerd. Italy
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Remember that if you don't know what they were for, "it's ritual"
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An sich ein Sicherheitsproblem. Diese Leute denken, dass "sie" innerlich Verbrecher sind. Ein Satz über Migranten die ich einmal gehört habe: "Ich bin ja kein Rassist, aber sie sind nicht wie uns"
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Meine Erfahrung aus Italien (aber ich befürchte dass es in Deutschland nicht ganz anders ist). Es gibt viel Rassismus. Er ist hier zumindest seit der Kolonialzeit, er ist nie wirklich bearbeitet worden. Für viele Leute (besonders ältere Leute) ist ein Mensch mit dunkler Haut /
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What about those claiming that RNA vaccines modify the genome (??) but then are totally cool with allowing an RNA virus to replicate in their cells, which cause the presence of much much more foreign RNA.
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Qa2 ?
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But overall, it usually ends with me lecturing the AI while it "apologises for its mistakes". Not very useful.. unless you desperately need to feel smart.
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Anytime I used AI for assistance with my job (including software which is allegedly specialised for scientific databases), the output included basic mistakes. It has been useful a couple of times for molecular target identification (which was more a search than a prediction thing)
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Probably you are right, but I assumed the hallucinations came from the "generative" part (i.e when they have to create a summary of what they found and which they don't understand)
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Personally, I think that humans should 1)demythologize LLMs and consider them for what they are - enhanced search engines 2)Learn how to use them well. From an employer's point of view, how can my employees become more efficient by using it?
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My (limited) experience is that AI *apparently* answers better than a human. It has instant access to more information for sure - after all, they are search engines that are able to make a summary of what they found - but if the answer is important you should always double-check it
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Ok, but from an immunologic point of view, I'm not convinced that presenting the same immunogen 6 times a year won't induce tolerance in the end (?) 🤔
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Ceredigion really sounds like a name from the Silmarillion 😆
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On the other hand, this match was invented in the 19th century as a pseudo-scientific support for nationalism, sometimes with ridiculous claimed "ancestries" going back X thousands of years.
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Were "rights" a thing in the 1st century CE? I mean universal rights. I don't think so.
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But overall, you always need to double-check anything it says, which reduces strongly it's usefulness. Most people on the other hand, treat AI as if it was an oracle..
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My impression is that AI - LLM replies SOUND good, but usually they are not, in a reversal of the ancient quote one could say, "bonus malebat videri quam esse". I can still find some niche applications of AI, for example if you need to break ground with some entirely new topic/
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A reduction in hospitalisation and procedures?
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Yes, AI does invent research or even whole research groups out of nowhere..
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Silly question maybe, why does the Republic of Ireland have a royal academy?
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The sentence "it can't be covid" is a testament to the amount of misinformation that is circulating. Even the most minimising of the minimisers can't deny that the virus is circulating, at best, they can say that it's "mild"
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Sorry I forgot to write "in Italy" before "we swung"
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And, in comparison to other countries, Italy's response wasn't even so bad!
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Not much of the adopted measures made much sense. We swung from a "business as usual" approach (February 2020) to panic mode when people started to die (including those famous moments like the police chasing a guy walking completely alone on the beach) to "business as usual" again
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At this point I don't know how much I can blame an average citizen for buying into this narrative.. sorry for the longish rant..
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All this misinformation is supported by official health and political authorities (not just in those countries ruled by anti-vax freaks) essentially on the basis that "we can't go on like this forever". A nice argument that could easily be applied to hand washing, wearing a seat belt and more
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Failed to address airborne transmission. Most people are convinced that the only problem with covid was pneumonia and intensive care unit. Many are convinced that since they have had covid without ending up in hospital, it will never create them more problems than a standard flu-like syndrome
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Yes, even if governments (including the alleged "pro-science") did a lot of damage themselves, by changing narrative multiple times, pushing hard for vaccination (correct) but "selling" the notion that it would stop transmission (wrong), totally failing to do or say something about long covid/
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Novax tweets that aged very poorly
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Sometimes, I can imagine people from future centuries wondering why those primitive troglodytes from the 21st century had such an irrational fear of public health measures. Some will say there was some kind of totemic symbolism behind that. Some historians will write about economic interest..
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I think many convinced themselves that this is how it has always been.
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And maybe that thought was idiotic also about influenza?
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Here the question is, how did he know that Shakespeare didn't live with a woman?
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It is very baffling how famous Shakespeare is and how little we know about his life, which left a lot of room for any kind of wild speculation.
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I mean, why was it specifically impossible to be "a mother" and not "a parent"? Is it so obvious that only the mother has to care for the kids after their birth? 🤔
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This is not a very original opinion, but the more we go on, the more we don't understand why the Neanderthals disappeared..
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I mean that somehow, despite the terrible policy and the general denial/minimisation, we MIGHT see longer intervals between surges in the infections.
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As you know, studying history is very useful on this topic - then you probably know that nearly every generation of humans who left any written sources had this exact same thought about the next generations..
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It seems there is a very nice overlap between what was happening in Scotland and in Austria in the last 12 months..
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Correction: I wrote trough in "cases", but I should have written RNA load of course.
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Or is it premature/ similar to something that we have seen before? #covid #surveillance #wastewater @ryanhisner.bsky.social @ralfwittenbrink.bsky.social @winslowsp.bsky.social @thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social feel free to tag other relevant people.
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To see a deep trough in cases in spring, followed by a relatively sharp increase during the summer. However, this year, it seems that the spring trough is flatter and more prolonged than usual. Is there any chance that this reflects some better kind of trend?
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Deutschland wieder aufrüsten.. Was könnte mal schiefgehen?
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Oh, I see. I was in high school (classical high school, teaching Latin and Greek), and I watched it once in a cinema. I took it as a dark screwball comedy, and I laughed a lot. Especially when I saw their depiction of Xerxes.
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Have you watched "300" more than 6 times? Poor you
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Tbf, East Prussia rightfully belongs to the pagan baltic populations who were conquered by the Teutonic knights in the middle ages. Since we can't accept borders to be altered by war, now all we have to do is to resurrect them and put them in charge..