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Here's the thing: life also imitates art. If you invert your load-bearing assumption, it could be that he just reads too much slop. But my honest take? You might be right.

> And then there's homeopathy which is a largely unrelated and entirely nonsensical thing. And be careful with that dismissal! Not that I'm helping my case, here, but Pollack doesn…

Folks still sleeping on structured water. While admittedly contested and only reproduced by a few labs outside Gerald Pollack's at University of Washington, there is a solid case t…

Based on the list of contenders feels like you might be missing rsync.net?

A so-called fourth phase of water (liquid, but with some crystalline organization) that grows on hydrophilic surfaces by absorbing ultraviolet and infrared light, and organizes int…

Get a microscope and help me explore the role of structured water in rouleaux formation. Rouleaux formations are clumps of red blood cells, and they're bad because 90% of our circu…

“While the attraction is clear, the underlying motivation is not,” he said. Nobody involved in the study or the article has ever done even a small dose of psilocybin and interacted…

they did not use RAG for these tests... how are we supposed to take the report seriously when it does not demonstrate even a cursory understanding of nature of LLMs?

It's bananas! If the claim these folks make is "time spent struggling through a default config on an unfamiliar machine" > "time saved by crafting an workshop to fit your mind", th…

for the laconic and latin-leaning, NB (nota bene) means "note well"

for the laconic and latin-familiar, NB stands for nota bene, or "note well".

A few implementation details from building a hobby crawler

Absolutely loved TVQ. The insight about mitochondrial DNA inheritance being exclusively from the mother, thus motivating female fingerprinting of male nucleic DNA for gamete viabil…

It sounds like you no longer see value in the work. What were your original motivations and goals? How have they changed? From a distance, it's easy to guess that you're not confid…

> it is kind of picking a fight with SaaS/cloud providers or starting a bidding war

Location: Portland, OR, USA Remote: yes Willing to relocate: unlikely: maybe to major metro for dream job Technologies: Python, JS, Linux, Docker, iOS, Elm, SQL, AWS Resume: https:…

A 6-minute Bob Newhart clip from MadTV that is guaranteed[1] to fix all your problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ow0lr63y4Mw (tl;dw: stop it!) > But the work is tedious enoug…

> A common argument I've heard is "well ok, maybe layoffs don't help the company directly, but it is an opportunity to get rid of dead weight". Sure, except presumably at-will empl…

The copy in the example entry is telling: "I met her on Polk street." If you don't know SF well, Polk street is one of two frat boy rows.

+1 for The Mind Illuminated (the one by Culadasa)

I share this perspective. I don't have acute trauma behind my anxiety and depression, but I have been through periods of poor self-care wrapped up with those states, and I relate t…

Not having read the much more authoritative response above (or any such), I'll foolishly offer the one fact about trees I recall from boy scouts or outdoor school: The core of a tr…

What's extreme about it? I'm new to ML, but this seems great from a testing and verification perspective. I actually feel like Christmas came early, here, because I'm eager to expl…