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The reason I refuse to read about keto is that pretty much all doctors and public health organizations I’ve seen recommend basically the same things: whole grains, fruits, vegetabl…

Nassim Taleb suggests everybody but Nassim Taleb doesn’t understand risk in complex systems.

It’s not unidentifiable once you study more. Sigma “is” “roughly” the letter S, and stands for sum. Squiggly S stands for integral (roughly a sum). Intuition for why these things r…

What the hell are you talking about dude

They might or might not deliver real value, but I’m sure most research scientists view a lot of software as simple implementation rather than real value. I think everyone needs to …

I wonder why the self-driving car hype folks don’t simply lobby to make more trains. (I mean the ones who have been successfully marketed to here, not the marketers).

It’s not always true. I know an undergrad who had a conference paper out in a direction a PI could use in grant writing.

Are they? As an undergrad I thought my professors were silly folks who got suckered into making a huge effort on obscure facts when they could easily make the same salary with less…

Naps taken per Saturday

I agree with some part of your second paragraph. If I met some guy who did nothing but code 14 hours daily for 10 years, my first guess would be that he may be mentally deranged an…

I wonder how people become so deluded that a major news publication needs to tell them this. Surely if it were reasonably easy to become rich by refusing lattes, several people fro…

The author may simply have a crush on him.

Who cares? What do you care about? I care about money and food in the table and being able to live my life. Did that guy interfere with that or managing to continue a decent career…

Christianity already solved this. There is a hierarchy but it’s invisible and you can’t access it. The one you see is not especially relevant to anything except social custom and d…

That seems a bit odd. Maybe he’s not an effective manager, but why would you go out of your way to not do what he asked?

Do people do these kinds of computations often in practice?

I think most informed Economist readers already are aware that they are, to some extent, being influenced by the “subtle propaganda” of the publication. I believe it’s part of thei…

Many folks will acknowledge the secular or scientific benefits of e.g. temperance with food or alcohol, or even restraint with sex. One thing I’ve heard few outside of religious en…

My mom was in extremely good shape with obese children. She was a homemaker who did hours of exercise everyday. As such she could basically eat potato chips and donuts and stay in …

I met one engineer with a similar attitude. He would often make fun of me for not knowing things. However, he completely lost it when I pointed out he didn’t understand some basic …

That book is so hard.

If you use it normally (1-2 drinks or less max daily) it doesn’t seem like a drug to me. Basically a perhaps mildly unhealthy food item that makes you a bit more social for an hour…

Realizing you don’t understand the point comes from understanding the point more than you did before you read the book.

They have a lot of books on the subject. Many of the articles in eg Harvard Business Review are about it. Who knows whether someone without the natural skill will ever become great…