jonmc12

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by jonmc12 7mo ago
Also surprised; building something people want and proving it is the unlock. HN first principle since the beginning.
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by jonmc12 10mo ago
I don't think trans-disciplinary inquiry is arrogance - the intellectual fields are somewhat arbitrary relative to how human expertise relates to real world problems. But, effective trans-disciplinary inquiry requires awareness of phil
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by jonmc12 1y ago
Maybe an investment in "A-players" for streaming stifled cultural diversity and kept engineers from being able to innovate on novel media formats where they are losing engagement of the younger demographic to TikTok and other soci
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by jonmc12 1y ago
Agreed. The constraints of software engineering are mostly idiomatic. I used to use my "Scribe" mind to crawl through library dependencies for days to solve some artificial sub-problem. No software engineer is good enough to time-
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by jonmc12 3y ago
The Enlightenment produced free speech and reasoning. Nietzsche said, "god is dead," but a lot of people said it before and after - because reasoning could not fill in the gap of a shared reality. Harari's Sapiens gives a goo
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by jonmc12 3y ago
"Our mind shapes the world".. Kant's psychology was foundational to the thought lineage of predictive processing. https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnsys.2016.0007...
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by jonmc12 3y ago
Some of the lower-hanging fruit in chemistry data was addressed by earlier versions of deep learning, like AlphaFold. It seems the nature of the domain is such that the language is less ambiguous than most natural language. Does anyone have
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by jonmc12 4y ago
I'd echo this. ListenNotes API is great and I thought podcast search was already solved for devs. I've always enjoyed this question on their FAQ that gives some tips for potential competitors - https://www.listennotes.c
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by jonmc12 4y ago
Omega-3 index is better correlated with overall health than O3/O6 ratio. Also, flaxseed is a source of ALAs whereas early all O3 health benefits come from DHA/EPA. A great source of info is Dr Rhonda Patrick's interviews w&#x
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by jonmc12 4y ago
I think no one has posted the main thesis of this discussion. It's not just about "asking them", it's about the NYU psychologist's research that has systematically found no evidence for all counterfactuals other tha
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by jonmc12 4y ago
See Labdoor.com and Consumerlab.com to verify supplement quality. There are some good meta studies on Omega-3s. Dr Bradley Stanfield[1] walks through Mayo Clinic meta analysis[2]. Rhonda Patrick[3] is the best resource for an interpretation
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by jonmc12 4y ago
Adopt the religion of biological age. ie, re-conceptualize your age as something that is correlated to your health, mortality and existential risk. Further its a number you have control to change. Exercising, eating healthier and learning m
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by jonmc12 5y ago
As another example, Amazon teams communicate product launch requirements via a future press releases including a FAQ (per description in the book "Working Backwards"). Its a communication intended for the masses with a built-in di
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by jonmc12 5y ago
Any thoughts on the organ-based biological age score that Bryan Johnson presents? More equivalent to monitoring all the components of the car. I think these biological age scores are a really healthy way to debate and create broader awarene
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by jonmc12 5y ago
> The U.S North American Bird Conservation Initiative estimates that our pet felines kill some 2.6 billion birds annually in the U.S. alone. The 100M pet cats in US on average kill 26 birds/yr? Doesn't seem right. When I track
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by jonmc12 5y ago
I was looking for something similar recently for a video clip and had a good experience with gifs.com. Their real-time preview was impressive, helpful. Any way you could offer that I can paste a youtube url instead of vid upload?
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by jonmc12 5y ago
Paper is from 2016. Huberman Labs has a great roundup (Nov '21) of the research on time perception - and several other related series on dopamine. The title of OP was not surprising after listening. https://hubermanlab.com&#
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by jonmc12 5y ago
"Being You" by Anil Seth, released last month, is a great primer on predictive processing and its relationship to the science of consciousness. Its a great complement to Hawkins' latest. https://www.amazon.com&#x2F
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by jonmc12 5y ago
The analysis of Cavalry and Iron is fascinating. As is the correlation between MilTech and Phylogeny (cultural similarity between polities). I was most surprised that the authors had no strong theories about the role of "agricultural p
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by jonmc12 5y ago
Here are a couple more recent papers exploring the efficacy of hyperbaric oxygen treatment and autophagy on Alzheimer's disease: 1. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7293997/ 2. https:/&
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by jonmc12 5y ago
Learn about your body. I suggest starting with the autonomous nervous system. Then your metabolic states. Then circadian rhythm. Reconceptualize everything including the way food and exercise affect your body. There is an explosion of resea
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by jonmc12 5y ago
There was some good convo around TfT books in the Roam community a few months ago. From that someone compiled this public list of recommended books. https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xFnzq95yZrr8SVJAsCW8...
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by jonmc12 5y ago
The book, "The Switch" (Clement) is a nice synthesis of recent research on metabolic health. It presents a case that managing metabolic state can mitigate most of the risk of cardio-vascular disease, cancer and mitochondrial damag
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by jonmc12 5y ago
Overlay too: https://overlay-tech.com/ . Their Figma plugin is very good for React/Vue code and SCSS. It manages nested components and extracts design tokens automatically.
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by jonmc12 5y ago
"The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life" - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2045
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by jonmc12 6y ago
PBS NOVA's "Dog Tales" (2020) is a good watch and explains this behavior. https://www.pbs.org/video/dog-tales-vskr2y/ They demonstrate that a wolf can be domesticated, but will still keep its distan
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by jonmc12 6y ago
https://finbox.com/ideas/ray-dalio
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by jonmc12 6y ago
I think the foundation of the argument about the application and utility of AI needs to go deeper. A good starting point might be to address the arguments that Arvind Narayanan brings up in "How to recognize AI snake oil"[1]. ie:
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by jonmc12 6y ago
Also, "The Rise of New Economic Attitudes — Economic Humanism, Economic Nationalism — During the Later Middle Ages and the Renaissance, A. D. 1200–1550" https://doi.org/10.1017/S0362152900004992
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by jonmc12 6y ago
Coffee w/ L-theanine is a whole different thing, worth trying. I quit caffeine for most of 2020, then had a Taika (taika.co) out of curiosity.. now I drink it regularly. For me, it removes most of the downside of caffeine, including wi

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