[O]ne thing defines [Seska] in contrast to the Cardassians we’d been regularly seeing on Star Trek at that moment in time: she’s just kind of an absolute hot mess.

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But it’s kind of what makes Seska work as a character: despite all this, villainy or otherwise, nothing ever quite clicks for her. It’s a great mirror to uphold against Janeway’s decision to have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the idea that, if they did ultimately just go Seska’s route and exploit their advantageous power in an unknown quadrant, it would doom them.

[O]ne thing defines [Seska] in contrast to the Cardassians we’d been regularly seeing on Star Trek at that moment in time: she’s just kind of an absolute hot mess.

...

But it’s kind of what makes Seska work as a character: despite all this, villainy or otherwise, nothing ever quite clicks for her. It’s a great mirror to uphold against Janeway’s decision to have the crew take the long way home in the first place, the idea that, if they did ultimately just go Seska’s route and exploit their advantageous power in an unknown quadrant, it would doom them.

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To treat obesity, Hippocrates, the “father of medicine,” suggested the following:

[o]bese people and those desiring to lose weight should perform hard work before food. Meals should be taken after exertion and while still panting from fatigue and with no other refreshment before meals except only wine, diluted and slightly cold. Their meals should be prepared with sesame or seasoning and other similar substances and be of a fatty nature as people get thus, satiated with little food. They should, moreover, eat only once a day and take no baths and sleep on a hard bed and walk naked as long as possible. - Precope J. Hippocrates on Diet and Hygiene. 1952.

In this quote we have :

• Eat fat to lose fat
• One Meal A Day (Intermittent Fasting / Time restricted Eating)
• cardio, and walking.

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Google DeepMind has developed the first artificial intelligence (AI) model of its kind to predict the weather more accurately than the best system currently in use... The system, called GenCast, is described today in Nature.

Conventional forecasts, including those from ENS, are based on mathematical models that simulate the laws of physics governing Earth’s atmosphere... GenCast, by contrast, has been trained only on historical weather data...

So yeah DeepMind is fucking going at it again.

Interestingly the model architecture seems to heavily integrate Bayesian maximum likelihood estimation in addition to their usual GNN-based deep learning approaches, which I didn't know is even possible. Their methods section states "[o]ur innovation in this work is an MLWP-based Forecast model, and we adopt a traditional NWP-based State inference approach

I'm not super familiar with Bayesian methods though so if anyone can add some more information I'd appreciate it

References:

• The pape

The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset managers.

While the £4m donation by Quadrature Capital is the sixth-largest in British political history, it is noteworthy not just for its size, but also its timing.

Electoral Commission records suggest Labour received the donation in the one-week window between former prime minister Rishi Sunak announcing the general election and the start of the ‘pre-poll reporting period’ in which all political donations over £11,180 had to be published weekly, rather than the quarterly norm.

This means that despite being made on 28 May, Quadrature’s generous donation was published by the Electoral Commission only last week, more than two months after Labour won the election.
[…]
The party has received more than £8m from businesses or people linked to the financial indus

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The article includes the following highlights:

[O]nly three per cent of Canadian human research trials testing new drug treatments or therapies meet all three international criteria that ensure fair and timely sharing of results for all to learn from. Its authors say the look at whether these trials are properly registered, with results reported and formally published, serves as a clear warning that researchers may be wasting millions of dollars of funding, along with patients’ time and effort.

"Our data shows that there's basically no public record of many trial results... I think it's (scary) really," said Kelly Cobey, a co-author of the study, associate professor at the University of Ottawa and researcher at the university's Heart Institute.

[…]

The question posed by the research team was to determine how many followed the World Health Organization guidelines from 2015, which specify that: clinical trials must be registered before they begin to ensure they follow a pre-pl

EG, beastcoast, Talon, BOOM Esports, TSM, Alliance release their roster; All players leave Tundra

Liquid:

• zai retires, replaced with 33

Nigma (NEW):

• Miracle- replaces Yuma
• Sumail replaces Mikey
• Fbz replaces Ghost replaces Mind_control
• Matthew (<- BOOM Esports) replaces rmN- replaces GH (takes a break)

Team Secret:

• BOOM (&lt;- Team SMG) replaces fbz
• Kordan (<- Bleed) replaces MidOne (&lt;- Team SMG) replaces Armel
• Ekki replaces Yamich

OG:

• Wisper (&lt;- EG) replaces DM
• Ari (&lt;- TSM) replaces Kitrak

Entity:

• No[o]ne- (&lt;- Team SMG) replaces Stormstormer
• DM (&lt;- OG) replaces Gabby

Tundra New Team:

• Pure~ (<- BB loan)
• Topson
• MinD_ContRol (<- Nigma)
• 9Class
• Whitemon (<- TSM)

Team Falcons New Team:

• skiter (&lt;- Tundra)
• Malr1ne
• ATF
• Cr1t- (&lt;- Shopify Rebellion)
• Sneyking (&lt;- Tundra)

Shopify Rebellion New Team:

• Arteezy
• Yopaj (&lt;- BOOM Esports)
• SabeRLight-
• Thiolicor (&lt;- D2 Hustlers)
• Kitrak (&lt;- OG)

Team Undyin

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I love this thing and have been meaning to post it for a while. I also, however, wanted to do a little extra. So I wrote out the lyrics and added links to all the appropriate parts. However some links may not be what they seem. There's also one goodie in there I really enjoy. Anyway. Lyrics!

🎶 Engineering here...

We got a subspace anomaly, a graviton pulse,

We got a catastrophic diagnostic cycle result

Inertial dampeners just went off line

And that's a 10 hour job but we'll do it in 5

I need a cryosensor, hyperspanner, [neutrino probe](http://www.trekprops.de/prop-analysis-neutrino-p

The Beltway press' longing for a stern-but-loving Republican daddy, who will bring our naughty nation in line, has always had an erotic tinge to it. In a widely shared Atlantic piece, drawn from his upcoming biography of Sen. Mitt Romney of Utah, McKay Coppins allowed the subtext to edge alarmingly close to the text. "[O]ne can't help but become a little suspicious of his handsomeness," Coppins gushes. "The jowl-free jawline. The all-seasons tan. The just-so gray at the temples of that thick black coif."

It seems Georgia politician Stacey Abrams isn't the only one moonlighting as a steamy romance author. I rolled my eyes throughout Coppins' piece, except for the parts where Romney dropped the daddy act to share bitchy gossip about his fellow senators. But, as far as mainstream pundits are concerned, Romney can totally get it. Coppins' article was released simultaneously with Romney's announcement that he's retiring from the Senate, and the reception Romney got was fawning.

"Romney