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Katzen irritieren Reasoning-Modelle: Studie probt Angriff
Ein irrelevanter Input verschlechtert die Ergebnisse von Reasoning-Modellen drastisch: Eine Studie hat das mit Katzen getestet.
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Militärgouverneur: Toter bei Angriff auf ukrainische Region Sumy
Bei einem russischen Angriff auf die nordostukrainische Region Sumy ist örtlichen Behörden zufolge ein Mensch getötet worden. Bei dem Angriff auf den Ortsrand des Dorfes Putywyl habe es zudem verletzte gegeben, darunter ein neunjähriges Kind, erklärte der Militärgouverneur der Region, Oleh Grygorow, laut der Nachrichtenagentur AFP.
Auch die Stadt Saporischschja…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neuer Angriff auf Druschba-Pipeline gemeldet ++
Das ukrainische Militär hat eigenen Angaben zufolge erneut die Druschba-Ölpipeline angegriffen. Der Grünen-Politiker Hofreiter fordert, dass sich deutsche Soldaten an einer möglichen Sicherheitsgarantie für die Ukraine beteiligen.

So I've found my answer after maybe ~30 minutes of effort. First stop was the first search result on Startpage (https://millennialhawk.com/does-poop-have-calories/), which has some evidence of maybe-AI authorship but which is better than a lot of slop. It actually has real links & cites research, so I'll start by looking at the sources.
It claims near the top that poop contains 4.91 kcal per gram (note: 1 kcal = 1 Calorie = 1000 calories, which fact I could find/do trust despite the slop in that search). Now obviously, without a range or mention of an average, this isn't the whole picture, but maybe it's an average to start from? However, the citation link is to a study (https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32235930/) which only included 27 people with impaired glucose tolerance and obesity. Might have the cited stat, but it's definitely not a broadly representative one if this is the source. The public abstract does not include the stat cited, and I don't want to pay for the article. I happen to be affiliated with a university library, so I could see if I have access that way, but it's a pain to do and not worth it for this study that I know is too specific. Also most people wouldn't have access that way.
Side note: this doing-the-research protect has the nice benefit of letting you see lots of cool stuff you wouldn't have otherwise. The abstract of this study is pretty cool and I learned a bit about gut microbiome changes from just reading the abstract.
My next move was to look among citations in this article to see if I could find something about calorie content of poop specifically. Luckily the article page had indicators for which citations were free to access. I ended up reading/skimming 2 more articles (a few more interesting facts about gut microbiomes were learned) before finding this article whose introduction has what I'm looking for: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC3127503/
Here's the relevant paragraph:
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The alteration of the energy-balance equation, which is defined by the equilibrium of energy intake and energy expenditure (1–5), leads to weight gain. One less-extensively-studied component of the energy-balance equation is energy loss in stools and urine. Previous studies of healthy adults showed that ≈5% of ingested calories were lost in stools and urine (6). Individuals who consume high-fiber diets exhibit a higher fecal energy loss than individuals who consume low-fiber diets with an equivalent energy content (7, 8). Webb and Annis (9) studied stool energy loss in 4 lean and 4 obese individuals and showed a tendency to lower the fecal energy excretion in obese compared with lean study participants.
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And there's a good-enough answer if we do some math, along with links to more in-depth reading if we want them. A Mayo clinic calorie calculator suggests about 2250 Calories per day for me to maintain my weight, I think there's probably a lot of variation in that number, but 5% of that would be very roughly 100 Calories lost in poop per day, so maybe an extremely rough estimate for a range of humans might be 50-200 Calories per day. Interestingly, one of the AI slop pages I found asserted (without citation) 100-200 Calories per day, which kinda checks out. I had no way to trust that number though, and as we saw with the provenance of the 4.91 kcal/gram, it might not be good provenance.
To double-check, I visited this link from the paragraph above: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022316622169853?via=ihub
It's only a 6-person study, but just the abstract has numbers: ~250 kcal/day pooped on a low-fiber diet vs. ~400 kcal/day pooped on a high-fiber diet. That's with intakes of ~2100 and ~2350 kcal respectively, which is close to the number from which I estimated 100 kcal above, so maybe the first estimate from just the 5% number was a bit low.
Glad those numbers were in the abstract, since the full text is paywalled... It's possible this study was also done on some atypical patient group...
Just to come full circle, let's look at that 4.91 kcal/gram number again. A search suggests 14-16 ounces of poop per day is typical, with at least two sources around 14 ounces, or ~400 grams. (AI slop was strong here too, with one including a completely made up table of "studies" that was summarized as 100-200 grams/day). If we believe 400 grams/day of poop, then 4.91 kcal/gram would be almost 2000 kcal/day, which is very clearly ludicrous! So that number was likely some unrelated statistic regurgitated by the AI. I found that number in at least 3 of the slop pages I waded through in my initial search.

Hmmmm… here is a problem I did not anticipate.
Every time I empty the main pond hole of water, (the actual hole under the liner) water returns within an hour or two. I’ve done it 4 times now, and it keeps filling back up with water.
Obviously there is water underground infiltrating into the pond hole, and/or the water table itself is above the bottom of the hole. It is not coming from either of the other holes because they both have the same amount of water in them as they did this morning.
I have “watered” the blueberry patch and hazelnut tree a lot with the water that I have been cleaning the filter with… and we also had lots of water flying around outside the liners yesterday as I tested the pump. So it is quite possible that the ground around the pond is simply well saturated.
I think I am going to have to just keep removing the water (and putting it into the sewer) until it does not refill. We have a week of hot weather coming. Surely that will be enough time for everything to dry out completely.
Otherwise I might run into some issues if the rains return before I can anchor down the pond liner with gravel and get the plumbing in!
How is time already running short!?
Never underestimate the ability of water to find a place where it is not wanted. 😆
#poolpond #backyardProject #diy

Wegen ukrainischen Drohnenangriffen: Russland schaltet öfter mobiles Internet ab
Der Ukraine gelingen immer wieder spektakuläre Angriffe im russischen Hinterland, Drohnen machen es möglich. Zur Gegenwehr wird oft das Mobilfunknetz gesperrt.

Opferzahl gestiegen - Drei Tote
Die Behörden in der Ukraine haben nach den massiven russischen Angriffen die Opferzahlen erhöht. Drei Menschen seien getötet worden, darunter ein Kleinkind. 18 weitere Menschen wurden verletzt, wie die Behörden mitteilten.
Der Angriff begann nach Angaben von Bürgermeister Vitali Klitschko mit Drohnen, gefolgt von Raketen. Reporter der Nachrichtenagentur Reuters sahen dichten Rauch aus dem Regi…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neuer Angriff auf Druschba-Pipeline gemeldet ++
Das ukrainische Militär hat eigenen Angaben zufolge erneut die Druschba-Ölpipeline angegriffen. Der Grünen-Politiker Hofreiter fordert, dass sich deutsche Soldaten an einer möglichen Sicherheitsgarantie für die Ukraine beteiligen.

Wanted to find out how many calories are in poop to make a nice fat-positive post on here, but after wading through 5 separate results from the top to the bottom of the first page of results, every single one of them showed signs of AI authorship, so none of the info was trustworthy (several contradicted each other or themselves). The one article that cited legit sources didn't include a straightforward answer to the question. Of course, I could dig past the first page, or look through the cited sources do some math myself, and that's not even that hard to do. But 10 years ago, a trustworthy answer would have been among the first 5 search results. When we say #AI is destroying the digital commons, this is what we mean.
Gonna go find some academic papers to answer this and report back.

Ukraine meldet mindestens einen Toten bei russischen Angriffen
Bei neuen russischen Angriffen in der Nacht ist nach ukrainischen Angaben mindestens ein Mensch getötet worden. Die Industrieregion Dnipropetrowsk sei mit Drohnen, Artillerie und Raketen angegriffen worden, teilte der Leiter der örtlichen Militärverwaltung, Mykola Lukaschuk, mit. Dabei seien Gebäude, darunter ein Kindergarten, und Stromleitungen zerstört worden.
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Selenskyj: Putin will totale Niederlage der Ukraine ++
Kremlchef Putin ist nach Meinung des ukrainischen Präsidenten Selenskyj nicht an einem Waffenstillstand interessiert. Bei russischen Angriffen wurde nach ukrainischen Angaben in der Region Dnipropetrowsk mindestens ein Mensch getötet. Der Liveblog vom Sonntag zum Nachlesen.

Zwei Tote in Kiew nach russischen Angriffen gemeldet
Russlands Militär hat die Ukraine in der Nacht nach Angaben aus Kiew erneut mit schweren Luftangriffen überzogen. Ukrainische Städte in nahezu allen Landesteilen seien mit Hunderten Kampfdrohnen und mit Marschflugkörpern unter Beschuss genommen worden, berichteten örtliche Medien unter Berufung auf die Flugabwehr.
In der Hauptstadt Kiew gab es bei dem Angriff auf ein mehrs…
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Ukraine-Liveblog: ++ Neuer Angriff auf Druschba-Pipeline gemeldet ++
Das ukrainische Militär hat eigenen Angaben zufolge erneut die Druschba-Ölpipeline angegriffen. Der Grünen-Politiker Hofreiter fordert, dass sich deutsche Soldaten an einer möglichen Sicherheitsgarantie für die Ukraine beteiligen.

Bericht: Treffen in Washington zu Russland-Sanktionen
Einem Bericht der Nachrichtenagentur dpa zufolge ist heute in Washington ein Treffen zu neuen Sanktionen gegen Russland geplant. Mehrere europäische Beamte unter der Leitung des EU-Sanktionsbeauftragten David O'Sullivan sollen demnach im US-Finanzministerium zu Gast sein, wie ein Sprecher der EU-Kommission der dpa bestätigte. Sie sollen verschied…
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Selenskyj drängt auf schärfere Russland-Sanktionen - Trump zeigt sich offen
Präsident Selenskyj fordert nach den schweren russischen Angriffen auf die Ukraine eine Reaktion der Weltgemeinschaft. US-Präsident Trump zeigte sich offen für neue Sanktionen. Er sei "nicht glücklich" über die ganze Situation.