Attenuate

To weaken; make less strong; to reduce in force, intensity, quantity or even value; to make thin or slender

@valebuck.bsky.social

I mean “evolutionary algorithms basically do gradient descent” isn’t new (Whitelam 2021 I think) but GRPO seems like an especially strong analogy: “Boost everything better than the mean, attenuate everything else”

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The Journal of Pain

The Journal of Pain

@thejournalofpain.bsky.social

Original: Drs. Patricio, Hugo Massé‑Alarie et al. ( @ulaval.ca) found that rTMS may attenuate disability improvement in participants with chronic low back pain with central sensitization

—this may guide future personalized neuromodulation approaches.

FREE: https://www.jpain.org/article/S1526-5900(26)00135-5/fulltext

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@almamexi.bsky.social

In 1943, New coins of 20 cents begin circulation to attenuate the scarcity of fractional currency.

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