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i did a good deal of searching after i noticed my improvement, but only finding anecdotes, not a lot of real research specifically for tinnitus and b1/benfotiamine. the cynic in me…

the older i get, and more in tune with my body i become, the more i'm thinking everything is connected to metabolism... it is, after all, the primary thing life does as it relates …

this is anecdotal and not medical advice, but i reduced my tinnitus symptoms by ~90% by taking therapeutic doses (1200-1800mg/day) of benfotiamine (fat soluble form of vitamin b1) …

Went down the rabbit hole and found the case of Danish Bear Boy, he was reportedly taught to speak but he claimed to have no memory of his time living with the bears. Fascinating s…

i just had the uncomfortable thought that it's possible a disease could kill off everyone older than 1, sterilizing the species to language at some scale. for the few that survive,…

i've always assumed that language was required to give your brain the abstractions needed to reference things in the past compared to your current perception (aka now), like an ind…

When I moved to a comcast area around 2014, I brought my own modem and they wouldn't let me connect over the phone without an "internet installation kit". I didn't need an install …

As a complete novice, I had a similar revelation naively trying to derive one of Maxwell's mind-blowing insights connecting light to magnetism. It was well accepted that if you jus…

I'm putting this info here in case it helps anyone. I am not a doctor and not giving medical advice, just sharing my personal story. I haven't thought about this stuff in over 10 y…

1000% agree. I shudder to think what I would have done at the time if the non-standard treatment cost tens of thousands of dollars out of pocket because insurance wouldn't cover it…

My completely naive and unqualified opinion on why antibiotic therapy worked in my case is that some percentage of sarcoidosis and possibly other autoimmune disease like RA is caus…

In a way, the entire differential diagnosis process and treatment planning is already based on data. Your doctor and insurance companies don't think you're special. Autoimmune prob…

It was over 10 years ago, iirc there were more case studies on skin vs pulmonary, but a quick search found this one https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/18458989/ another search term wo…

More anecdotes, I was diagnosed with debilitating pulmonary sarcoidosis several years back and after 8 months of steroids and pain killers wrecking my stomach I found some research…

I love restaurant ramen, but I haven't found anything approaching its quality to make at home. I'd love to just buy some fresh/frozen noodle nests like they have in the picture. Ar…

My understanding is that Mono is being billed as a client framework (Monogame, Xamarin, Unity, Blazor) while Core is more for the server/systems target. To add to the confusion, ".…

this looks great. seems like there's many c# scripting game engines but from what i'm reading the entire engine was written in c#?

how does this compare to tpl dataflow on performance? is a go channel kinda like c# bufferblock? are channels thread safe for multiple producers and multiple consumers writing to a…

i'd love to see some work done in oss router firmware like tomato / dd-wrt to enable simple home automation tasks. not everyone needs a cloud assistant or has the chops to hack a w…

i kinda figured the gui stuff would be impractical, but what i was more interested in was a low friction way to play with midi / audio buffers. i haven't worked with c / c++ since …

i used tracktion many years ago and remember reading about the underlying juce framework, but i was dissuaded by the lack of bindings to other languages. i know real-time audio is …