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Akash Ingale, was admitted to Fortis Hospital, Vashi, diagnosed with the unusual combination of Myasthenia Gravis and Thymoma. Myasthenia Gravis is a chronic autoimmune neuromuscular disease causing muscle weakness, typically affecting older individuals, making it rare in young patients like Akash. Moreover, the presence of Thymoma in conjunction with Myasthenia Gravis is even rarer, occurring in only 10–12% of cases. For the past eight months, Akash faced significant mobility challenges, severely impacting his quality of life. Managing the conditions required him to be on multiple drug regimens, including steroids and immunosuppressants, further affecting his well-being.

In this video, Dr Prriya Eshpuniyani, Consultant-Thoracic OncoSurgeon Fortis Hospital, Vashi, Navi Mumbai talks about case history, challenges, prognosis.

Originally developed nearly a century ago by physicists studying neutron diffusion, Monte Carlo simulations are mathematical models that use random numbers to simulate different kinds of events. As a simple example of how they work, imagine you have a pair of six-sided dice, and you’d like to determine the probability of the dice landing on any given number.

“You take your dice, and you repeat the same exercise of throwing them on the table, and you look at the outcome,” says Susanna Guatelli, associate professor of physics at the University of Wollongong in Australia.

By repeating the dice-throwing experiment and recording the number of times your dice land on each number, you can build a “probability distribution”—a list giving you the likelihood your dice will land on each possible outcome.

The more competition the better. Download and spread around the world so large companies cant seal away competition under a cloak of AI safety.

Meta, the company formerly known as Facebook, has recently announced that it is open-sourcing its large language model (LLM) called LLaMA 2, making it free for commercial and research use. This move is seen as a direct challenge to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, the popular chatbot powered by the GPT-4 model, which is not open-sourced and requires a subscription fee to access.

LLaMA 2 is a generative AI model that can produce natural language texts based on a given input or prompt. It can be used for various applications such as chatbots, content creation, summarization, translation, and more. LLaMA 2 is the second version of Meta’s LLM, which was first released in February 2023. According to Meta, LLaMA 2 was trained on 40% more data than LLaMA 1, which includes information from “publicly available online data sources”. It also claims that it “outperforms” other LLMs like Falcon and MPT when it comes to reasoning, coding, proficiency, and knowledge tests.

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No surprise. Already moving to make AI a subscription service like subscriptions to movie studios. But, i actually see it as a positive. 1. The Best AI service will have to put up or shut up and market will decide it; no more role play of who s the best. 2. Real customer service; no more, o you have a tec issue, sorry, get lost. 3. Funds and competition will force improvements.

Microsoft’s one-day gain in market value is more than the entire valuation of about 450 S&P 500 companies.

Scientists claim they’ve calculated a potential new method of time travel involving a theoretical object called a ring wormhole.’ Here are the details.

Over the past decade, teams of engineers, chemists and biologists have analyzed the physical and chemical properties of cicada wings, hoping to unlock the secret of their ability to kill microbes on contact. If this function of nature can be replicated by science, it may lead to development of new products with inherently antibacterial surfaces that are more effective than current chemical treatments.

When researchers at Stony Brook University’s Department of Materials Science and Chemical Engineering developed a simple technique to duplicate the cicada wing’s nanostructure, they were still missing a key piece of information: How do the nanopillars on its surface actually eliminate bacteria? Thankfully, they knew exactly who could help them find the answer: Jan-Michael Carrillo, a researcher with the Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences at the Department of Energy’s Oak Ridge National Laboratory.

For nanoscience researchers who seek computational comparisons and insights for their experiments, Carrillo provides a singular service: large-scale, high-resolution molecular dynamics (MD) simulations on the Summit supercomputer at the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at ORNL.

Genetic tests using museum specimens suggest that the Xerces blue was a distinct species and that it disappeared in 1941.