So glad to hear research is being done in that area.
I'm a dad of two autistic boys who I think would be very different categories. I have friends whose child isn't really autistic, they have a much more rare and specific diagnosis but it's so rare it's hard to get supports so they got him diagnosed as autistic because that criteria is so broad almost anyone can qualify.
The full paper isn't open so I can only read the abstract, method and results.
The part I take issue with:
"lower brain-wide mGlu5 availability may represent a molecular mechanism underlying altered excitatory neurotransmission that has the potential to stratify the heterogeneous autism phenotype."
Seems like the very premise is flawed, though. Searching for a single global identifier for autism would be like if we spent research time trying to find a single global identifier for cancer. Noble effort... Way harder than spending effort on subcategorization into "lung" and "heart" cancers and working on research for detection of those subtypes.
The only good categorization we have in autism now is severity.
The anecdote I always like to share is Temple Grandin.
She was hyper-sensitive to auditory and tactile senses. The cause for this hypersensitivity was cerebellar abnormalities in her brain. Right now, someone who is hypo-sensitive to sound and touch because of different cerebellar development will also be put in the same bucket diagnostically speaking. There's not gonna be any universal way to detect that though...
To quote her directly:
"It would be my number one research priority, but one of the problems we’ve got on studying this, is that one person may have visual sensitivity, another one touch sensitivities, another one, auditory sensitivities. And when you study these, you got to separate them out. You can’t just mix them all together."
https://www.sensoryfriendly.net/podcast/understanding-my-aut...
Maybe they meant neurodivergent as a broader category? Like "some people are neurodivergent but don't have autism"
That would be a bit weird though...
EDIT: Neurodivergent is very much a broader category. What I meant would be weird is to state the obvious... Very much sounded like they were trying to say some people with autism may not want to get "cured" but using the wrong words
It's targeting a very specific group of devs who like to follow trendy stuff..
To that group saying something is "made in rust" is equivalent to saying "it's modern, fast, secure, and made by an expert programmer not some plebe who can't keep up with the times"
3.7 did score higher in coding benchmarks but in practice 3.5 is much better at coding. 3.7 ignores instructions and does things you didn't ask it to do.
Thank you. If I complained for one second about my short houred, high paying, long vacationing, low-education requiring job around any of my family I'd get laughed out of the house.