Abey Thomas

Humanist, Programmer, Software Architect and more importantly a problem solver.

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@shilpa_cn @grok what exactly is the full story here

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

The US government, citing national security authorities, has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States, including foreign national Anthropic employees.

The net effect of this order is that we must abruptly disable Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for all our customers to ensure compliance.

Access to all other Claude models is not affected.

We apologize for this disruption to our customers. We believe this is a misunderstanding and are working to restore access as soon as possible.

Read our full statement: https://t.co/bwn0sximKZ

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

I kept telling my team to 'use AI first principles.' Then I realised I owed them what I actually meant.

https://t.co/VdnJf3JN5G via @LinkedIn

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

Stuck at Changla Pass for hours now. Request help before sunlight is gone. @BROindia

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@svpino @bcherny

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@sciencegirl @grok explain this behaviour from an evolution point of view

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@svembu @theliverdoc

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@DealsDhamaka You have to check this: https://t.co/yKo7sFd1gn

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Physicians, it is time to stop abusing vitamin-D testing and vitamin-D supplementation.

🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣
The Endocrine Society's latest guidance on vitamin-D testing and supplementation is out now: @TheEndoSociety
Full paper:
https://t.co/J7bRgMexEe
🔴🟠🟡🟢🔵🟣

ONLY supplement vitamin-D for these categories:

1️⃣ In children aged 1-18 years to prevent rickets and to potentially lower the risk for respiratory tract infections

2️⃣ In pregnancy, to lower the risk for mother and child related complications

3️⃣ In adults older than 75 years to lower the risk for all-cause death

4️⃣ Adults with prediabetes to lower the risk for progression to type 2 diabetes

📌 How much?📌
👉Daily lower-dose vitamin D instead of non-daily, higher-dose vitamin D ▶600 IU/d for those aged 1-70 years and 800 IU/d for those older than 70 years

🥇Most important:
Do not test vitamin-D levels in healthy adults below 75 years and other populations (➜ this possibly includes patients with chronic liver disease too, where strong evidence to test and supplement is not available)

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Just wanted to make few things clear.

Many Twitter accounts are using the news report on "rare" side effect of blood clotting from the AstraZeneca (Covishield) vaccine as a "political tool." Most of these accounts are fully invested in political commentary and have suddenly shifted to using anti-vaxx sentiments to push their pro-political narratives.

Weaponizing known "unknowns" in scientific healthcare by health illiterates will only promote unnecessary anti-science sentiments among people and promote vaccine hesitancy (including for other major beneficial vaccines such as polio, diphtheria, mumps and measles etc.)

🤡STOP POLITICIZING MEDICAL SCIENCE🤡

Most of these accounts seem intelligent and logical, but are still science illiterates with poor scientific temperament and poor understanding of virology, immunology, vaccination benefits and disease burden reduction.

The clotting side effect of AZ vaccine is already known and is extremely rare: Incidence of is ~4 per million. Here is a link to the recommended workup which was already in place years ago. This is not new information. https://t.co/DjHj3JhBuV

In comparison, risk of clotting events with severe Covid infection ranges from 5% to 25% as per multiple studies, which is exponentially larger than due to the vaccine.

This paper shows how weaponizing rare adverse events with higher benefits to risk vaccination resulted in vaccine hesitancy and more harms within the society.
AstraZeneca Vaccine Controversies in the Media: Theorizing About the 'Mediatization' of Ignorance in the Context of the COVID-19 Vaccination Campaign
https://t.co/rRqGhkCpJN

Also as the media claims here, it is not that first time AstraZeneca admits risk of clotting events (again rarest side effect) associated with Covid.
It’s in their packaging insert: https://t.co/a82GOH18lP

There is NO CLINICALLY VALIDATED data to showcase young people died of cardiac events due to Covid vaccinations. This is old anti-vaxx garbage peddled by the anti-science community.
No link between Covid vaccines used in India and heart attack risk
https://t.co/jsVJteT3ks

You want to talk about risks? Then talk about risk of lightning strikes and car accidents, alcohol and tobacco and insect bites and bee stings and such related deaths, which are MUCH MORE than what is expected from vaccination related risks.

Grow up people.

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@anoopxh നിൻ്റെ voting officer oru വലിയ കലാകാരൻ ആണല്ലേ..😀

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@AyamVeda @DoctorAjayita @theliverdoc

[⚽️𝕬𝕶⚽️ 🇧🇷🇮🇳 @anoopxh]

We are looking for a UI/UX developer - 1 to 4 year experience.
Location: Bangalore
Work mode: Hybrid
DM me if interested. RT for good karma.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Obese diabetes patients with [non-alcoholic] fatty liver disease and related chronic liver disease ask me if they have to avoid "rice" from their diet.

We are a predominantly rice consuming population, which means, there will be great inertia about getting rice out of the daily diet.

Good news is, there is absolutely no need to avoid rice from diet in people with diabetes, obesity and chronic liver disease.

Rice contains about 80% starch and is generally considered a high glycaemic index food. GIycemic index is a measure of glucose uptake upon digestion (or postprandial glucose), resulting in a sudden spike in blood glucose content.

There is simple hack to enjoy rice with a reduced glucose spike and stress on glycemic status.

Cook rice. But do not eat it immediately.
Refrigerate it at a minimum of 4°C.
That is, let it cool for 24 hours.
Reheat and consume it the next day.

During the cooling of cooked rice, the structure of the starch in rice takes on a crystalline form that can resist enzymatic digestion in the small intestine for up to three hours - that is cooled rice gains "resistant starch" which is digested more slowly and with lower glucose spikes.

So enjoy your daily portion of rice within the calculated calorie content and do not completely remove it from diet.

Sources:
[1] https://t.co/LNWBAvT6s5
[2] https://t.co/PIgZxnHwjd

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

If you are familiar with Chromium browser's codebase, reasonably good with C++ and are looking for a remote internship enabling AI agents, please reach out to me. DM is open.

This is a very long shot (nobody I know except @vivekgalatage compiles chromium) so the chances are slim. If there's ever something that needs to be retweeted for reach, this is it! 😆

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@anoopxh https://t.co/Yr2GTB5xWH

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@anoopxh In India, you can sell almost anything when it is tagged to ayurveda. "Natural", "chemical-free", "no side effects", "pure" are some keywords.
You could have started an empire that sells "traditional" and "butt-purifying" diapers 😁

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@Advaidism A case for 6 hour workday 😎https://t.co/N96mepNJeY

[Abey Thomas @abeytr]

@3rdEyeDude @NammaBengaluroo @blrcitytraffic @DCPTrEastBCP @CPBlr @Jointcptraffic They have cameras. It is Rs 1000 fine for stopping on zebra crossing. A postcard will come home 😁

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

Shame on Himalaya "Wellness". You get an ex-parte order to block a man of science exposing your bullshit?