Bruce Vigneault

Vitamin D does = Bone Health

“The English Disease” - Rickets

-Helps our body absorb Calcium (to rebuild bone)

Lack of it may effect Blood Pressure

Linked to Cardiovascular Events

-appears to influence immune system

-influences the way genes make proteins for immune system

Main sources of Vit D in our diets is oily fish, egg yolks, mushrooms, and some fortified cereals and milk alternatives.

Definition of D deficiency is a blood level below 30 nanomoles per liter

The UK government advises everyone in the country to take a 10-microgram vitamin D supplement over autumn and winter.

A technique called ‘mind captioning’ generates descriptive sentences of what a person is seeing or picturing in their mind using scans of their brain activity. It is based on artificial intelligence models trained on the text captions of thousands of videos, and brain scans of people watching them

The use of aerosols in lower atmosphere to achieve cooling over small areas (help farmers or cities to deal with extreme heat) is concerning.

Unintended Consequences - Any particle may become coated by background sulfuric acid in the stratosphere accelerating the loss of ozone.

Is this an example of what many fear as we approach AGI?

Scientists have used a powerful new AI tool developed by Google DeepMind to forecast the trajectory and growth of Hurricane Melissa. The model was able to predict as early as 21 October that there was a 50-60% chance the storm would reach Category 5, long before Melissa’s strength was obvious. Two days later, the model bumped the probability up to 80% or higher. And the next day, US National Hurricane Center forecasters cited the model when they reported “a distinct possibility that Melissa could become a Category 5 hurricane”. Google DeepMind researchers trained their model on global weather observations, including 5,000 cyclones from the past 45 years.