ihateshadylandlords

ihateshadylandlords t1_iy1d9jj wrote

I was a middle schooler in 2002, and it was pretty different. I remember collect calls since cell phones were just starting to proliferate with my classmates. VR aka Virtual Boy had flopped a couple of years earlier. DVDs will still a thing, and so was Blockbuster.

I remember my dad had to use map quest to take me to baseball games and I was listeneinf to music on my CD player while he was cussing because he missed his exit. Porn wasn’t free and you had to rely on playboy mags or wait a while for a single pic to download.

What’s funny is that 2012 to me was drastically different than 2002. But 2012 doesn’t really feel different than 2022. I mean I have an air fryer now, but I can’t really think of much that’s changed from then to now.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_ixnkwyl wrote

“Patients who were on the course of treatment survived for 19.3 months compared to 16.5 months for the control group.

The long tail is more interesting where 13 percent of those treated survived for five years, while only 5.7 percent of the control group did. 331 patients were enrolled in the trial.

According to the results, there is still a long way to go.”

I’m stoked to see treatments make it into the clinical trials stage. Not that proof of concepts are meaningless, but there’s a gulf between proof of concept and the rubber meets the road stage of clinical trials. Hope this goes well!

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ihateshadylandlords t1_ix53y1t wrote

> A month after treatment, five of the patients’ tumors were the same size as before, suggesting that the engineered cells may have had a stabilizing effect on their condition.

> The cancer continued to progress in the other 11 patients, but the patient given the highest dose of cells saw a short term improvement in their cancer — that could mean the treatment would be more effective in future studies if administered in higher doses.

> “We just need to hit it stronger the next time,” said Ribas.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_ix0fjye wrote

So I don’t think much will change from 2022 to 2023, but I think a ton will change over the next two decades. I think 2023 will be like 2022 for the average person. We on /r/singularity might see more game changing developments in the lab, but still won’t be available for the average Joe.

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ihateshadylandlords t1_iwjfm24 wrote

>”The new machine-learning models we call 'CfC's' replace the differential equation defining the computation of the neuron with a closed form approximation, preserving the beautiful properties of liquid networks without the need for numerical integration," says MIT Professor Daniela Rus, director of the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL) and senior author on the new paper. "CfC models are causal, compact, explainable, and efficient to train and predict. They open the way to trustworthy machine learning for safety-critical applications."

Cool, excited to see what comes after this.

!RemindMe 3 years

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