GitLab discovers widespread npm supply chain attack
Yet another week; yet another supply chain attack...
Why Large Language Models Won’t Replace Engineers Anytime Soon
In short: an attempt at a mathematical proof as to why humans won't be replaced by LLMs any time soon.
Not sure I have the background to really follow all of this, and I'm not sure this is as reassuring as some might want it to be; but it's an interesting read. Finally I sense the "replacement" won't happen or fail to happen because of facts of the world, but because business will decide it's for the best and will cause things to collapse.
Does employee happiness create value for firm performance?
Obviously the causation can’t be explained here, but there is unsurprisingly a correlation between employee happiness and company performance.
The question then becomes: does a company with happy employees perform better, or do better-performing companies treat their workers better?
Common colds: Research summaries – Does vitamin C prevent colds?
It's such a common trope that if you take vitamins, you'll be far less likely to catch colds, etc. Far too many folk seem ready to hand out this advice, but never cite their sources for this "fact".
I wonder why...
UK Fossil Collecting
Good resource for background information on fossil-hunting in the UK.
Evaluating & Debunking Dry Needling as an Injury Recovery Method
Article with references that talks about how efefctive, if at all, dry-needling is as a treatment.
The Effectiveness of Trigger Point Dry Needling for Musculoskeletal Conditions by Physical Therapists: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis - PubMed
Review of evidence for how effective, if at all effective, so-called "dry-needling" is.
Male Victims of Coercive Control; Experience and Impact
This report reflects the UK findings of two recent international surveys investigating the experiences of male victims of domestic abuse from their current or former partners which included coercive control.
The report provides an understanding of the types and levels of coercive control experienced by male victims in the UK including emotional, psychological, economic and sexual, as well as isolation.
The findings demonstrate that male victims experience severe and longstanding negative effects from female perpetrated coercive control including anxiety, depression, post-traumatic distress and suicidal ideation.
Recommendations are made to ensure that awareness of men’s experiences are raised, the severity of the impact on male victims is sufficiently recognised, and this is measured and addressed in a gender specific manner.
The Insensitive Ruins It All: Compositional and Compilational Influences of Social Sensitivity on Collective Intelligence in Groups
A group's collective intelligence reflects its capacity to perform well across a variety of cognitive tasks and it transcends the individual intelligence of its members. Previous research shows that group members' social sensitivity is a potential antecedent of collective intelligence, yet it is still unclear whether individual or group-level indices are responsible for the positive association between social sensitivity and collective intelligence. In a comprehensive manner, we test the extent to which both compositional (lowest and highest individual score) and compilational aspects (emergent group level) of social sensitivity are associated with collective intelligence. This study has implications for research that explores groups as information processors, and for group design as it indicates how a group should be composed with respect to social sensitivity if the group is to reach high levels of collective intelligence. Our empirical results indicate that collectively intelligent groups are those in which the least socially sensitive group member has a rather high score on social sensitivity. Differently stated, (socially sensitive) group members cannot compensate for the lack of social sensitivity of the other group members.