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Personal Science

Richard Sprague

Science for personal, not professional use. Published every Thursday.

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Personal Science Week - 261105 Peer Review

Regular PSWeek readers are not especially impressed just because something is “peer reviewed”. LLMs are already flooding the world with examples of highly-regarded academic research that, upon closer inspection, is riddled with errors.

Thi...

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Personal Science Week - 261029 Apps

LLMs make it so cheap and easy to build apps that I wonder about the future. Will we need general-purpose apps at all?

I was frustrated with a self-tracking app, so this week I built my own that’s much better and does exactly what I need....

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Personal Science Week - 261022 Migraine

For decades, I’ve had an occasional half-hour of flickering vision that a doctor once told me to ignore. It turns out to have a name and even a diagnostic code that point to solutions I wouldn’t have considered.

This week I’ll walk through...

16 days ago
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Personal Science Week - 261015 Quantified Self

It’s the new, best book ever written on how to get started with personal science. Everyone who reads this weekly Substack will be interested.

This week I’ll describe my takeaways, along with some thoughts about where personal science is he...

23 days ago
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Personal Science Week - 261008 Caffeine

I’m not addicted to coffee. I tell myself I can quit anytime I want, but lately I’ve been waking up with a faint headache that goes away as soon as I’ve had my first cup. Does that mean I’m addicted?

This week I’ll look more closely at my...

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