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Opportunistically Detecting Signs of Hypertension on a Consumer Smartwatch

Nature, Published online: 05 November 2026; doi:10.1038/s41586-026-11336-3 Opportunistically Detecting Signs of Hypertension on a Consumer Smartwatch

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Detecting LLMs

I am not good at detecting when a piece of text has been produced by a large language model (LLM from now on). Very often I read a post shared on a link aggregator, to later check the comments and learn that it is slop . It is true that there are some stylistic clues that can mean a text was generated (or there was some LLM assistance, at least), but I assume you have to be used to read LLM output to actual spot the more subtle cues. I was reading today in Chris’ Entropic Thoughts: Claude comment detection , and his summary of “clues” is interesting: If we jam all features at once into the mod

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ImapGoose: detecting wake-up from sleep

After the system goes into sleep and wakes up again, ImapGoose would just hang for like 15–20 minutes before finally detecting the disconnection and reconnect. This was super annoying, and understanding the root cause was not trivial at all. ImapGoose sends a NOOP to the server every three minutes. This NOOP is basically like a ping to which the server must reply. The timeout it set to thirty seconds, so why did it take around 20 minutes to detect the disconnection? Part 1 [ permalink ] While the system is asleep, the server sends a RST indicating that the connection is terminated. This messag

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