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Also surprised; building something people want and proving it is the unlock. HN first principle since the beginning.

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, effectiv…

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 o…

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-pro…

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…

"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...

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…

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 …

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 o…

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 evidenc…

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]. …

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 co…

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 commun…

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 a…

> 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…

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…

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 surprisin…

"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' l…

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 h…

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/PMC729…

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 a…

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/spreads…

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 cardi…

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.

"The Hot Spring Hypothesis for an Origin of Life" - https://www.liebertpub.com/doi/10.1089/ast.2019.2045