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Two things:

1. I experienced rapid vision loss during an acute diabetic reaction to starvation re-feeding, and getting insulin sensitivity back might be the best way to protect the eyes. Consider metformin in addition to the obvious diet and exercise.

2. I didn’t actually come here to suggest metformin. I clicked because of the heading typo, which smells to me like a type of auto-correct error that seems to be more common in neural network-based systems. That is, the suggested word is related to the context, but non-sensical. I’m constantly re-correcting bad suggestions now, even when I correctly type exactly what I want, sometimes several times on the same word. I think it’s making autocorrect worse, and mistakes more common and harder to spot versus the models based on closest word neighbors, or smaller contexts.



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