Not sure what we can conclude from this graph. Why it is not normalized? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=illness - try any common word and you will see that it grows just because of number of papers. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=lucid - try any less common word and you may also see spikes, not in 2023, but in 2020, or somewhere else. Try to look deeper and probably find some common n-gram people... - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

Https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=tdcs+depression&filter=pubt.randomizedcontrolledtrial https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=cold+shower+depression&filter=pubt.randomizedcontrolledtrial. - Source: Hacker News / 25 days ago

Yes, the actual results are definitely not as impressive as the overly hyped headlines, but there's still a lot. First off, in terms of research building up on top of it, as of today, Pubmed shows 9,364 articles citing their 2021 paper, and Google Scholar shows 21,719 results as a whole[1], but these include non-biomedical papers (e.g. Applications of similar ML models to other disciplines). As for actual... - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

An unhealthy diet (i.e., nutrient deficient diet) harms adult brains. Unsurprising. To learn more, search for resources on pubmed. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/. - Source: Hacker News / 3 months ago

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American Heritage is much better. They respond to usage, but much more conservatively. And their entries will actually have brief explanations from their "usage panel" about ambiguous or changing meanings. https://dictionary.com. - Source: Hacker News / 2 months ago

I don't know what to say. The act of making a choice is just to "select from two or more possibilities," as dictionary.com puts it. We do that. Cats and dogs and birds do that. Single cell amoebas do that. Trees can even be said to do that. And certainly computers do that. Even the problem Sam Harris is stating above is in the form of an if-then statement, the fundamental conditional statement upon which... Source: 7 months ago

Yeah, here's what dictionary.com says about the phrase's origins:. Source: 7 months ago

My wife set up a bunch of her mature vines hanging down from our entrance staircase (both sides). On the left is about a five year old String of Hearts, then Monstera (only a couple of years old), then Pothos (about five years old). The String of Hearts is about 10 feet long, but seems to still get nutrients and moisture to the end. The pothoses (strangely, that is what dictionary.com says is the plural of... Source: 7 months ago

This word is very interesting. I came across it in a comic. Oxford Advanced Learner's Dictionary's definition seems like a synonym of immediate, but dictionary.com's definition seems more suitable for the comic. Source: 10 months ago