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From reading it appears all parties are invested in the outcome of children. So this becomes interesting for other reasons.

What is the current state of the art in this type of testing? Why is a definitive result too far off but also too expensive?


Epigenetic changes might be one possibility, they are sometimes passed down to children and are responses to environmental adjustments. We don't know most of the rules around them however nor what can be passed down and to what extent but potentially in the future we should know more.

You need to find a genome change if it exists which requires whole genome sequencing. so its a money question and doesn't guarantee a result

And even if a genome change exists, it may not show up in the offspring depending on which version of gamete they're derived from.

With identical twins, the genome is identical since both twins derive from the same fertilized egg.

I'm not sure how future advancements can overcome that issue.


There can be very small mutation which you might be able to find if it happened.

i may be a wallflower here, but please do more with your account than leave this one comment. think about posting! show us what interests you. spread some karma around.


I’d say that ‘commiserate’ is a euphemism for complain. How do you understand it?


Is SCMP a reputable, or otherwise trustworthy news source?


Very reputable and trustworthy historically. After the authoritarianization of Hong Kong in 2020 I trust it less specifically on topics the Beijing regime would have enough propaganda interest in to bother threatening the editorial staff over. The rest overall seems good still, and often with coverage with Asia-Oceania perspective which is not typically found in big North American or European news outlets.

In this instance, as they credit, they're just acting as a repeater for Bloomberg though.


Elon Musk becomes the world’s first trillionaire.


your thoughts are echoed in the comments, which are SO much fun. check em out.

my favorite might be the guy explaining how he subscribed to all comments, that he misses inbox zero, and that he needs help unsubscribing. poor guy



the ai is not reconstructing sight. it’s guessing which frame of a video the mouse is currently watching. based on training data created by recording the lit up brains of other mice watching the same video


Interesting. In that case what a terribly misleading / borderline irresponsible article. The video from the study to go along with it was also garbage in explaining this, but I admit I probably got led astray by all the talk of the visual cortex and the skippy frames.

Thank you for this clarification / setting me straight.


Might be an extreme example, but I thought you’re not allowed to use the word in the definition:

https://www.thisworddoesnotexist.com/w/extremology/eyJ3IjogI...


Although the software mentioned is pretty good at scoring, a fair percentage of applicants to any university have had no prior interaction with that institution ("stealth applicants"). Moreover the jobs of admin staff are literally dependent on a high volume of qualified applicants. I doubt any admissions operation would use the absence of a score to preclude or penalize otherwise qualified applicants.


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