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This display with regularly-rotating high-quality pencil art could be a neat business. The comparison to wall art makes the hardware price look more reasonable, and you could offer…

Agree that it's a poor headline and that the fructose/Alzheimer's hypothesis is quite speculative, but I don't think calling it a "junk study" or gesturing at evidence hierarchies …

HIT is not HIIT, it's a completely different thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-intensity_training I'm specifically advocating for HIT resistance training, 1x/wk, as a highl…

YMMV, but I recommend more people try High Intensity Training (HIT). HIT explicitly contradicts several of the (well-supported) claims in the article, but I've personally found it …

> haven’t otherwise been studied in large enough populations to understand the ramifications of long-term glucose deficits in the human body How's the "long-term glucose surplus" c…

Wonder if you could use this for regular notes and do something interesting with a method of loci https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci )

Huh? COVID-19 is caused by SARS-COV-2, which was entirely unknown at the outset. In contrast there are about 2k Monkeypox cases per year, still lots of unknowns but pandemic potent…

This was a while ago, but IIRC there were some fairly major software-reliability rough edges (frequent crashing/bugs/etc). Beyond that the major shortcoming was that it was constra…

https://getpolarized.io/ seems like it's in the same space - it's a product I wanted to love, but was a bit clunky to use and didn't end up sticking in my workflow.

A choose-your-own-adventure format would be an interesting layer, since you could embed recall/understanding checks at each decision point.

I think this event qualifies as “well documented” by any reasonable standard, there was official public disclosure and an open investigation. As one quick example, here’s a news cl…

You’re missing something. The author is saying that there was a lab leak involving delta , not that delta originated via a lab leak . The latter claim would indeed be a red flag, b…

I'm a native English speaker, but I'd love something like this for French, Spanish, or Mandarin! Any good products you're aware of?

IMO this is the best interpretation.

What other explanation is there for more than 100% of GME stock being sold short (genuine question)?

Like this? https://www.rationaleonline.com/

Very interesting observation, my own experience with GJP, metaculous, and other betting fora agree with this. I wonder if an HN-like forum with prediction at its core would have le…

These folks used a synthetic control to do the exact quasi experiment you described: https://www.iza.org/publications/dp/13319/face-masks-conside...

I think it would be valuable, I've actually had this idea (but not the competence/bandwidth to actually build it, alas). It could become a platform for courses built around SRS, or…

Epidemiologist here: you're right. Testing resources are in short supply, so testing is being performed to guide clinical decisions (ie sick people) rather than public health/scien…

As was I, terrible title.

Canada's CDC (Public Health Agency of Canada, my current employer) is looking for something along these lines: https://www.ic.gc.ca/eic/site/101.nsf/eng/00029.html

>I read a bit I liked a while back about early feminism... Link (and second recommendation) for the curious: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Tyranny_of_Structurelessne...

It's a noble plan, but have you considered the harm you could do to scientific progress - if such a plot were discovered, the negative publicity could set back gene drive science b…