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Preventing progression: Nutrition, lifestyle and AMD

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By David Ng Verified
| Insight Magazine Verified
At the completion of this article, the reader should be able to… •Explain how lifestyle factors like smoking, nutrition, exercise and weight can affect AMD risk •Recognise environmental and behavioural contributors to AMD •Discuss the role of physical activity in retinal health •Explain potential ocular effects of GLP-1 receptor agonists (Ozempic) Image: Dr David Ng. Dr David Ng MBBS MPH FRANZCO Vision Eye Institute Chatswood and Drummoyne, NSW Dr DAVID NG shows how optometrists can apply the...
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LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and hints of a Universal Language?

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By David Ng Verified
| dnhkng.github.io
Posted Mar 22, 2026 Updated Mar 24, 2026 By David Noel Ng 21 min read LLM Neuroanatomy II: Modern LLM Hacking and hints of a Universal Language? In Part 1, I described how duplicating a block of seven middle layers in Qwen2-72B — no weight changes, no training — produced the #1 model on the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard. The method, which I called RYS (Repeat Your Self), was discovered using nothing but hard math probes and EQ-Bench on a pair of RTX 4090s. That was mid-2024.
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LLM Neuroanatomy: How I Topped the AI Leaderboard Without Changing a Single Weight

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By David Ng Verified
| dnhkng.github.io
In mid-2024, the HuggingFace Open LLM Leaderboard was the Colosseum for Open-Weight AI. Thousands of models were battling it out, submitted by both well-funded labs with teams of PhDs and fine-tuning wizards creating fantastically named models (e.g. Nous-Hermes, Dolphin and NeuralBeagle14-7B…), fighting for the top spot across six benchmarks: IFEval, BBH, MATH Lvl 5, GPQA, MuSR, and MMLU-PRO. And there at #1 was dnhkng/RYS-XLarge. Mine. I didn’t train a new model. I didn’t merge weights.
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