Happy Thanksgiving y'all! Also grateful for this community!

I appreciate it, as it helps me to not 'favorite' many comments, but only those that actually strike me as worth saving when they are so detailed as to be a post of their own!

I liked it!

"The company will separate out valuable isotopes such as Strontium-90, which has fuel applications in marine and aerospace engineering, and use neutrons to transmute the rest into shorter-lived isotopes"

From Wikipedia, it looks like Strontium-90 can be used in "treatment of bone cancer, and to treat coronary restenosis via vascular brachytherapy". Pretty cool.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strontium-90

Strontium is taken up by the body like Calcium, as it's in the same group in the periodic table.

I don’t think anyone is considering its ingestion. At least I hope not, but these are very strange times.

Strontium-89 injections were indeed used as a palliative treatment for bone cancer, though I think they've been discontinued.

The short half life makes it less problematic than its 90 neighbour. It also decays to a stable isotope.

Fwiw supplements containing strontium exist (strontium ranelate mostly), which is supposed to assist with osteoarthritis symptoms and bone growth.

None with Strontium 90

“Taken up” mean it participates in the same sort of biological processes

I applied this query with 4o and yes, quite a thorough historical recounting. Really weaves together all those "random" questions one asks an LLM into a surprisingly (and somewhat scary) encompassing of one's self.

What a unique and fun build! So curious to hear about what ways it can be programmed and used for personal projects.

Assuming this references Reinforcement Learning? If so... valid

"Within our modeling framework, we show that gentrification emerges only when high-income residents have some mobility, even if minimal, highlighting how their movement patterns catalyse the process. We treat relocation flows of agents in our city as time-varying edges in a temporal network, leveraging established tools from network science and human mobility research."

So to summarize, when rich individuals wants to move, they do. Seems logical given they have the excess opportunity to do so with minimal risk / cost often associated with taking on whatever risks are associated with 'gentrifying'

Also: "as city population density increases, so does the propensity for gentrification" summarizes to people want to live near other people!

I suspect it's more to do with living close to work. Only a small percentage of people are able to move without that concern.

There are a lot of us who definitely do not want to live near other people.

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