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Jerry Cangelosi

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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Note to self: Remove “proficient in vegetative electron microscopy” from cv. A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data theconversation.com/a-weird-phra...
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A weird phrase is plaguing scientific papers – and we traced it back to a glitch in AI training data
Once errors creep into the AI knowledge base, they can be very hard to get out.
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
Are you pro-life? Then read this. www.nytimes.com/2025/02/27/h...
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U.S. Terminates Funding for Polio, H.I.V., Malaria and Nutrition Programs Around the World (Gift Article)
Here are some of the 5,800 contracts the Trump administration formally canceled this week in a wave of terse emails.
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
“I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant." -Martin Luther King, Jr.
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
“Building for joy” www.wired.com/story/boring...
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It's Official: Boring Cities Are Bad for Your Health
Oppressive, unstimulating urban architecture isn’t just about eyesores; there’s evidence that it can cause actual harm to its residents. To fix this in 2025, we must start building for joy.
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 13/12/2024
Here we go…. www.nytimes.com/2024/12/13/h...
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RFK Jr.’s Lawyer Has Asked the FDA to Revoke Polio Vaccine Approval (Gift Article)
Aaron Siri, who specializes in vaccine lawsuits, has been at Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s side reviewing candidates for top jobs at the Department of Health and Human Services.
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 08/12/2024
"I am, somehow, less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein's brain than in the near certainty that people of equal talent have lived and died in cotton fields and sweatshops.” -Stephen Jay Gould www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The science behind winning a Nobel Prize? Being a man from a wealthy family | Torsten Bell
A lot of talent is wasted in a world where more than half of laureates come from households in the richest 5%
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Jerry Cangelosi @jerry-con-angeles.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
It’s bit out of date, from 2018, but this is a good graphical summary of the U.S. federal workforce. At ~0.6% of total population, it is much smaller than at its peak during WWII. Over 70% of them work in defense or security agencies.
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