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BRK salary is 100k; the corp pays for the private jet ("the Indefensible"). Aside from Berkshire, he also has a personal stock portfolio worth 9 digits or so [in essence due to inv…

Yea. Most of the media reporting on Buffett is... sloppy to put it politely. The guy lives with Astrid (and some body guards) in a 5 bed house that he sentimentally likes. He also …

if you read Johnson's work, it's typically both. Direct fructose consumption as well as the polyol pathway being on and your body converting 'extra' glucose into fructose. excess f…

It seems misleading to call this "symmetry" because what you wrote is not a group. The only idempotent element in a group is the identity. And in abelian groups where the binary op…

and you can actually use up all the various desaturase and elongase enzymes in the process so that 10% upper bound drops markedly as you consume more ALA. Put differently long chai…

+1 for Bruce Ames. This idea profoundly shaped my thinking a few years ago. The one nit is I'm not sure how we'd go about testing it.

Steele's The Cauchy-Schwarz Masterclass is actually quite good and seemingly designed for self study. (A lingering result of this book is I heavily use inequalities even outside of…

It's interesting. My first instinct was to disagree with this post, but on reflection I think I mostly agree with it. A couple useful mental models are (i) deliberate practice and …

My understanding of one guess around e.g. annual flu shots is not so much protection from infection as frequent stimulation of the immune system being beneficial in particular for …

Meat substitutes are ultra processed foods. No real surprises here.

Kahneman's Thinking Fast and Slow (excluding all the priming stuff) Cialdini's Influence Lewis Caroll Epstein is a very talented writer

The author is a professor of engineering. A more accurate title would be "I Rewired My Brain to Become Fluent in Math Calculations ."

What is Mathematics by Courant and Robbins is surprisingly good. For something a little more specific Pinter's A Book of Abstract Algebra would fit the bill.

> Do round numbers to the nearest whole number [and do not use decimals unless it's money] is very bad advice and may lead to all kinds of inappropriate rounding. Trying to find an…

There's a lot of literature on various kinds of cardio (esp HIIT and 'zone 2') and lactate production -> BDNF which is loosely understood to be very important for your brain. Some …

Most people should pay extra attention to #7. E.g. Goodfellow et al did even worse than this sin in the Deep Learning book when they claimed the condition number for a square (but …

I'd encourage people to actually read the above link. It is very early days and quite far from definitive, but an encouraging attempt that's of special interest for people who are …

This. I eat tuna at most once a month. You also excrete a lot of metals via vigorous sweating (as well as urine and stool). All the more reason to do sustained cardio (or sauna) pl…

I was at a talk featuring Richard Thaler a few years ago, and someone in the audience asked a question in a vein that runs through the comments here -- 'is it better to teach high …

a more persuasive theory imo is that yo-yo dieters that don't do serrious resistance training, have repeated cycles of sarcopenia and osteopenia -- i.e. lose 'good stuff' along wit…

Of course the article hits on correlation vs causation and gets comments from a body image coach but the author does not talk to anyone doing research on the role of adipokines in …

My understanding is Buettner is a story teller who doesn't know much about science. His 'findings' are then often portrayed as having some scientific basis but really are much more…

If people want to know about financial crime (and regulatory dysfunction) in the US, I absolutely second Markopolos's book with no caveats. It's a bit technical but deserves to be …

> The probability that Elon is margin called by year end is roughly 40% according to option prices. The way tycoons frequently do this involves putting collars around a significant…