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randycupertino
11,859karma·2,447submissions·December 10, 2015
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I have some coworkers who use AI in place of the bullets in bulleted lists and I don't hate it. It's fun and eye-catching and brings some novelty to our scientific work. One uses science t…
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> This guidance lays a line in the sand and will remove some of the reviewer-to-reviewer variance present in the current FDA staff. https://www.statnews.com/2026/01/13…
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BOIN (Bayesian Optimal Interval) trial design is already very common in Phase I studies across therapeutic areas. Biggest benefit I see from this guidance is support for rare disease trials, where pat…
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> The blackout comes as President Yoweri Museveni, criticized for cracking down on opponents, vies for his seventh term.
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There's a boy band, Boy Throb who specifically leveraged visa application in their recent content, and their immigration attorney advised the visa would be approved when they got 1,000,000 follow…
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> In its complaint, T3D charged Clinilabs, the contract research organization (CRO) that it paid $14.5 million to manage the trial, with covering up “all encompassing” fraud by five of the South Fl…
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Here's the link to that for context if anyone else is curious: https://www.metafilter.com/102472/How-to-Get-a-Real-Educatio... …
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Adds on to the rumblings we heard about this last week:
https://www.windowslatest.com/2026/01/09/copilot-could-soon-... …
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There's a boy band, Boy Throb who specifically leveraged visa application in their recent content, singing and dancing outside the US Immigration office and trying to get 1,000,000 followers to h…
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In a first for the U.S., Utah is letting artificial intelligence - not a doctor - renew certain medical prescriptions. No human involved. The state has launched a pilot program with health-tech startu…
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Gawker had some crazy coverage of Schmidt back in the day: https://www.gawkerarchives.com/5497193/exclusive-how-googles... https://www.gawkerarchives.com/296074&#…
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Government, maybe also try a union hospital job in IT. They'll pay less but you'll get pension. My friend is a systems architect for Redcap which is a research database software for a larg…
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After raising $125 million Rampart failed with their much-hyped non-viral gene therapy. This is a big deal because non-viral gene therapy has been pitched as the next big thing (cheaper, safer than A…
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> California, Vermont, Virginia, and Washington already allow people to practice law within their states without attending law school, but via "reading the law" type apprenticeships. Famo…