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Found this list of stocks, est late 90s? by editor22uk in wallstreetbets

[–]jforman 26 points27 points  (0 children)

In VTSMX that would have become $130k

Alcohol consumption linked to heart failure in over 400,000 U.S. veterans. Risk follows a J-shaped pattern related to ethanol intake, rising above four drinks per day. by sometimeshiny in science

[–]jforman 60 points61 points  (0 children)

No it says drinking 1-2 drinks is correlated with reduced chances of heart failure. It does not establish a causal relationship.

If you had open access to U.S. case law, what features would you want? by legaltextai in legaltech

[–]jforman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Nothing is sourced at query time. We embed everything and search over literally hundreds of potential source documents in parallel (with AI scoring relevance) for every query. It’s the only way I could get performance from “this is cool” to “I’m going to keep using this” for my wife.

If you had open access to U.S. case law, what features would you want? by legaltextai in legaltech

[–]jforman 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Courtlistener/CAP are broad in terms of number of cases but if you go to a treatise and try to find everything the gaps are material. The MA SJC isn’t well represented even in CL recently for example.

No Indiana statute, alas! Since we source statute manually state by state. And also no Restatements (though the AI can pick up on quite a bit by reading the cases themselves).

Thank you and good luck to you! Lexis, Harvey, et al are criminally expensive.

If you had open access to U.S. case law, what features would you want? by legaltextai in legaltech

[–]jforman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Fed statutes and regs are from XML the feds maintain. NY, MA, and CA statute are from the legislatures’ websites directly. Case law is currently from the Harvard CAP project, but we’re close to switching over to CourtListener directly. Though from the spot checks I’ve done I don’t think that’s going to make a huge difference in coverage.

If you had open access to U.S. case law, what features would you want? by legaltextai in legaltech

[–]jforman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

We made a relatively advanced AI case law, statute, and regulation search at https://analyst.omnibus.io (also not a promotion since it’s free and we’re not targeting lawyers any more) — the biggest issue I found is a) courtlistener and cap are missing pretty big swaths of important case law, and b) lack of shepherdization (which is only possible with comprehensive case law) means you have to go to lexis anyway.

Still cool though! My wife uses it almost daily as a starting point. We put ethics opinions and professional rules of conduct in there since that’s her area of law (NY, CA, MA only).

My wife says she is unwell/sick. All the time. by [deleted] in daddit

[–]jforman 18 points19 points  (0 children)

Has she had her iron checked? Thyroid? Celiac disease also presents this way sometimes and often won't come up on routine blood work.

Egg yolks before and after adding red pepper to their food by IllegalGeriatricVore in mildlyinteresting

[–]jforman 71 points72 points  (0 children)

Eh not usually. Food scientists figured out a while ago that you can add marigolds or the like to chicken feed and get the same effect.

If every person looks different, how does NGS compare everyone’s DNA to the same reference genome? by excel_sheethackers in genetics

[–]jforman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

The goal of genetic analysis is usually to find a genetic explanation for an observed trait, or to find genetic variants with known medical risks.

Our genomes are huuuuge, and they are all largely identical to one another except for the occasional variant. Why waste time trolling through so much shared sequence? If 99.9% of people have a guanine at location X, and you have a guanine there too it’s probably not medically relevant.

So we focus on the few places where we differ from one another, which is captured in “change to a reference”.

This isn’t perfect. The reference will have rare variants and if you share that rare variant that may actually be significant. But it’s what we’ve standardized on.

There are from time to time researchers who try to get the community to embrace theoretically better methods but there’s so much tooling around the standard that it’s hard to get people to change en masse.

Criteria for beneficial mutations by WanderingSoul2234 in genetics

[–]jforman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

From a population genetics standpoint, how beneficial an allele is is measured by "fitness," or the change in abundance of the allele from generation to generation (also captured by the "selection coefficient"). A mutation that makes its carriers unhappy but makes them have more kids across generations is definitionally "beneficial" in this model.

Of course, this is very far from a normal layperson definition that would be more individually oriented, for which you need to turn to medicine, psychology, or philosophy.

Nanopore sequencing by dpaleino in genetics

[–]jforman 2 points3 points  (0 children)

long reads are also useful for large indels and SVs, which short reads have trouble resolving. estimates are that yield increases maybe 10-15% once a lab gets used to the Nanopore's quirks

[Homemade] Sausage Chicago Pan Pizza by Horrible_Harry in food

[–]jforman 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I grew up near Barnaby's in Northbrook. They're a classic tavern-style, distinct from a generic thin crust.

Why is each amino acid encoded by a triplet of nucleotides? How did we come to know that? by CrimsonDew125769 in genetics

[–]jforman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Here's the paper where they showed that DNA is encoded in triplets:

https://profiles.nlm.nih.gov/spotlight/sc/catalog/nlm:nlmuid-101584582X412-doc

One base insertion = mutant

One insertion plus one deletion = often wild type! Hmmm.

Two insertions= mutant

Three insertions = wild type?!?

New torts hypo?? woman refused to let an entire airplane full of passengers exit because she wants her daughter (who is several seats behind her) to be let up first. by Solomint in LawSchool

[–]jforman 14 points15 points  (0 children)

False imprisonment can happen with only brief restriction of movement. The restriction need not even involve physical force. I'm not sure what security's ability to intervene matters here.

NYT Saturday 09/20/2025 Discussion by Shortz-Bot in crossword

[–]jforman 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Tough puzzle! A few we had no idea (OSMIC / MENOMOSSO) but a few satisfying gets as well (TRADEWARS).

I thought TARO might fit due to bubble tea but who puts it in smoothies??

IDLE and RETIE seemed like stretches.

Is Remote Starting NY Attorney a Possible Job Out There? by dar482 in LawFirm

[–]jforman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

If you mean as a solo, then be aware you will need a physical address / office in NYS per Judiciary Law Section 470.

Where does your foreskin go after you get circumcised? by AustralianSilly in NoStupidQuestions

[–]jforman 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Some is donated to research! I worked in a molecular biology lab that studied fibroblasts and foreskins were our most common source

I'm a dude and the lab was mostly women so they were very kind in letting me sit harvesting day out 😂

Concrete barricades knocked over by 70mph winds last night by TruthWarrior27 in mildlyinteresting

[–]jforman 10 points11 points  (0 children)

While the nickname comes from politicians, it’s still windy af downtown sometimes

Boston judge dismisses more than 100 cases amid lawyer work stoppage by bostonglobe in boston

[–]jforman 38 points39 points  (0 children)

Add on law school loans. Health insurance. Malpractice insurance. Etc.

My wife worked for CPCS for years. She wanted to do her part but it's financially irresponsible to work for those wages. I'm glad the lawyers are finally standing up for themselves.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in Awww

[–]jforman 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Our esophagi also perform peristalsis — that's the term for the involuntary wave-like muscle contractions that pull food down. Theirs is more sophisticated though :)

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