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by zerobits 3y ago
https://wetware.engineering A site about the most effective techniques to improve your memory, intelligence, and effectiveness. Built with a custom software stack, want to put more time into it soon. Selection of posts: · Adults
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by zerobits 4y ago
I was pretty excited about this result until actually going through the quiz. They give you so many hints, I don't think you can draw conclusions from this. For example: - In multiple videos an ape is eating, and another ape is trying
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by zerobits 5y ago
Can anyone explain these timelines better? Can we throw more money at this and scale much faster? Are safety/regulation considerations the main bottleneck? This has gotta be one of the most important investments for humanity and our pl
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by zerobits 5y ago
The author did not claim that Delta's origin was a lab leak. Just that there was one isolated case of it. And so it stands to reason, other lab leaks may also be occurring.
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by zerobits 5y ago
This is one of the best articles I’ve read in awhile - thank you!
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by zerobits 5y ago
Here's an attempt at a summary of this article: · Became dominant strain in South Africa in like a week (way faster than Delta). Must be either a superspreader event, much more transmissible, or much more evasive of antibodies. · No r
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by zerobits 5y ago
I couldn’t find the headline/title anywhere in the slides. Where is that from?
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by zerobits 5y ago
I didn’t assume that of you at all, I actually had assumed the opposite and that you had experience in the area. I agree it would be challenging to have deep and useful markets, but perhaps there’s more innovation to be made there — and ma
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by zerobits 5y ago
It’s a bit presumptuous that these folks don’t understand what makes markets work. They went into quite a bit of detail but can’t cover everything. Most of the examples were quite top of funnel, fire the CEO markets, economic impacts of new
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by zerobits 5y ago
We’re not going to get large scale randomized controlled trials for marijuana use any time soon. We can definitely debate the methods.. but the findings from this growing body of evidence should probably be the ‘default’ stance, until we se
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by zerobits 5y ago
That is not what the study showed. They controlled for health and exercise. In fact, the study they cited which also showed an increase in stroke risk actually showed cannabis users exercised more. [1] https://scholar.google.com&
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by zerobits 5y ago
Well it’s a +63% relative increase. Not so tiny.
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by zerobits 5y ago
It’s strange that all of the comments are looking for ways to dismiss this result (and this seems to happen generally with negative cannabis findings online). Is it not entirely possible a drug and method of consumption which stresses the c
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by zerobits 5y ago
Yeah, I think some light editorializing would help here even if the list content stayed the same.
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by zerobits 5y ago
One of my favorite Wikipedia pages: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_lists_of_lists
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by zerobits 5y ago
I find the awesome lists not to be that useful. Mainly because they seem to include way too many things. Rather than 10 library/book/etc. recommendations on every topic, I'd love just a few: "Best beginner book" ..
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by zerobits 5y ago
I don’t think it’s a green screen, it appears to be a painted wall — you can see the seams and perspective to it.
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by zerobits 6y ago
You would think – but viruses don't necessarily become less deadly. The virus wants to maximize transmissibility, and that might require trading off further against the host's health and increasing its death rate. An example is My
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by zerobits 6y ago
There was a pretty high severe systemic adverse rate in the high dose group (20%). Severe local response rate was 5% in the middle dose. [1] I have no idea how this compares to other vaccines, and you can pessimistically extrapolate a bit f
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by zerobits 6y ago
Yes, but at some threshold wouldn’t this indicate a problem? 103F+ fevers are relatively rare from typical vaccines, and from my understanding a lot of the damage from COVID is immune response related. mRNA vaccines and our immune responses
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by zerobits 6y ago
Thanks for the valid correction. I didn’t mean to be disingenuous. I forgot they rejected that dosage. Overall, the picture does look potentially concerning for the side effects of that vaccine and efficacy is still unclear.
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by zerobits 6y ago
The Moderna mRNA vaccine was producing 103 degree fevers (and passing out) in a Phase 1 volunteer. [1] If that's the reaction in small sample with a healthy 29 year old (most volunteers had high fevers), I can't imagine old or unh
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by zerobits 6y ago
Apparently this isn’t a huge recent change —- it was at 47% of young adults at the same time last year (now it’s 52%). Source: https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2020/09/04/a-majority-...
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Child Brain Development in Lockdown(notes-txt.com)
1 points by zerobits 6y ago|0 comments
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by zerobits 6y ago
Despite 80% of comments focusing on Wolfram's pompousness, this is an interesting expansion of cellular automata to arbitrary dimensions. Coincidental timing of publication - one day after John Conway's passing. We may be in a n-d
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Everyday Memory Palaces(notes-txt.com)
1 points by zerobits 7y ago|0 comments
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The Myth of Adult Learning(notes-txt.com)
2 points by zerobits 7y ago|1 comments
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Non-Lethal Weapons(notes-txt.com)
2 points by zerobits 7y ago|0 comments
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by zerobits 7y ago
yes, this is a starting point. I agree this topic has considerable depth which I omitted. there are 100s of great resources (Wolfram Alpha, Khan Academy, GitHub, Wiktionary, to name a few) and techniques (Google search tricks like using qu
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by zerobits 7y ago
I actually do think most of the topics I mentioned are 'covered'. But many were covered briefly, as a day or week long unit in my personal experience, instead of as a core area. My point isn't about crossing these items off a

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