This is because, as a simple calculation demonstrates, a case of congenital blindness and schizophrenia would be extremely rare even if there was no protective effect of blindness: if schizophrenia occurs at a rate of 0.72% in the population (McGrath et al., 2008) and congenital blindness occurs at an estimated rate of 0.03% in people born in the 1970s and 1980s (based on Robinson et al., 1987), then the joint probability of a person having both conditions, if the two are independent, would be 0.0002% or 2 out of every 1 million people. Although this is a low prevalence rate, it is equal to or higher than the rates for several other well-known conditions (e.g., Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, hereditary spastic paraplegia, Hermansky-Pudlak Syndrome). Based on this estimated prevalence rate, in the United States alone (with a population of 311, 591, 917, as of July 2011, according the US census), there should be approximately 620 congenitally blind people with schizophrenia. When cases of blindness with an onset in the first year of life (i.e., early blindness) are taken into account, the percentage would be larger. Therefore, it is remarkable that in over 60 years, and with several investigations [including several before DSM-III (1980) when criteria for schizophrenia were broader than at present], not a single case of a C/E blind schizophrenia patient has been reported.

https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2013.00157/full

Use Trumpian maths, that is a 1000% reduction

Don’t worry… this strain of hantavirus is in no way human to human transferable, don’t worry and carry on /s

One such site, removed,

services to <deleted by BlueÆther> for over a decade.

Remove it once, but not the second time?

We have at least one living inside thanks to our cats. Last Saturday she brought in 3 in about 1/2 an hour. The older cat (at 16 y/o) just eats them if he can still manage to catch them; in his prime he brought in rats/rabbits/ducks.

It’s Autumn here in the southern hemisphere, so there are an abundance of mice is our semi-rural setting

must re-watch that, have on my NAS

Cats are not bread

Cryptosporidium and Toxoplasma spring to mind among others

um…?

ok, if they are profiting from genAI (and cloudflair has the means to run their own with out the big 3 or 4) then turbo charge that advantage by keeping the 1000 devs that are running all these agents. if they are not, keep the 100 devs and move them to developing the AI so that it works…

Cats also carry diseases, yet we keep them

I wrote a whole comment about Hantavirus with a /s, then rewrote it…

in the words of shaggy “It wasn’t me”

I had typed out a whole Hantavirus /s comment ;)

This worked out for my wife and I for the last 30 years (22/18)

We have a cat that bring in mice and releases them inside all the time, I don’t think a few extra will increase our risk profile too much…?

If productivity is not improving with the use of “(now expensive)” genAI, then turn it off, not lay off

Not to belittle the love I have for my older daughter, but our youngest girl (of 2) ended up in neonatal ICU at under 2 weeks old for 9 nights.

This almost broke me.

On the way home on (I think the second night) this came on the car radio: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ivKzieP9ZU

9 years latter, it song still brings tears to my eyes - even as I type this and it is playing.

Some sort of HDR stacking?

If teams are so good with AI, why cut the teams. Surly they could grow, develop and add value much faster if they kept the 1000 people and used AI?

I hope fucking no. I have to put up with enough MS shit and an iPhone. A MS phone with a AI slop OS would be too much

???

1/2 x 1/2 = 1/4