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It begs the question: is a few days of codeine or valium the brain equivalent of a "lemon juice / cayenne" cleanse?
Begs the question?
OP meant "raises the question."
Brains Sweep Themselves Clean of Toxins During Sleep (2013)
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I suspect (but do not know) that you enjoy your sleep because of its restorative effect. If you could obviate the need for the restorative effect, and instead just always feel newly restored, would you still enjoy going to sleep for no reason? Personally, I dislike the need for sleep. I put it off for as long as I can manage, and try to get as little of it as I can get away with. For me, I have a hard time functionin…
Oh my god, think of what this would do to commerce, in terms of a capitalist society. Suddenly, you can take a drug that decreases your need for sleep by 50%. People only need 4h of sleep per night now, for a full nights' sleep - 3h, if you're willing to skimp a little, 2h isn't unheard of (in the way that only getting 4h of sleep a night, now, isn't unheard of either). Suddenly, there's a significant advantage in th…
Are you into Science Fiction? You may enjoy Nancy Kress' "Beggars in Spain." It's a story with a similar central thesis.
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Fun fact: toxin meant arrow long ago, for taxus, (bark tree ?) which bow were made of. The funny part is that that tree is .. toxic, it embeds alcaloids which can kill. The taxus philogenetic family was often a symbol of death for cultures, and people commited suicide using its "effects". Lastly, those familiar with oncology probably know paclitaxel/taxol; which are molecules derived from these alcaloids for their cy…
> Fun fact: toxin meant arrow long ago, for taxus, (bark tree ?) which bow were made of Actually from ancient Greek "toxicon" (related to archery) which stems from "toxon" (bow, not arrow), that got into latin. The association (toxicon -> toxic as in poisonous) came due to the practice of using poisons in archery (to make for lethal arrowheads). Greeks took the word from Scythians. Taxus, for the yew family of trees…
Yeah I skipped a beat on the bow -> poisonous arrows.
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#155It's interesting that in almost every sleep related article I've read on HN, the overwhelming majority of people who respond about their personal life say that they hate getting up 'early'-for various definitions of early. Surely there are programmers who like getting up early?
If I wake up before 8 for work I feel physically tired.
In my current job I'm waking up at 7.30 everyday and I feel that I lost 10-20% of productivity.
And it is not strictly correlated with lack of sleep because now I'm sleeping at 10.30-11.30 pm.
I can do my best work when I have no mandatory early show in the office and I can arrive whenever I want between 9 to 10, ideally after a nice 30 minutes walk to wake up properly.
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#156It's interesting that in almost every sleep related article I've read on HN, the overwhelming majority of people who respond about their personal life say that they hate getting up 'early'-for various definitions of early. Surely there are programmers who like getting up early?
When I was younger I preferred staying up late and working and it allowed me to get a lot done. As I've gotten older and now have a family, things have flipped and now I much prefer to start my work day early, usually around 6am. This gives me more family time in the afternoon/evenings.
Pretty much useless for me given that my wife rarely it's at home before 7.30 and I'm there before 5..
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#157I learned about this from the Learning how to learn class on Coursera. Can't recommend it enough. https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn
I went through the course on your recommendation. Thanks, it was great! Apparently much of it based on Oakley's book A Mind For Numbers , which I'll try to read soon. Much of the content also reminded me of Josh Waitzkin's The Art of Learning . A related thread elsewhere on HN [1] also suggests Make It Stick by Peter Brown. [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8815148
Just today I got notification from iTunes that her new book "Mindshift" (which I had preoredered) is out. Her new course with the same name is on Coursera too https://www.coursera.org/learn/mindshift/home
After first week not sure how much does it overlap with "Learning how to learn".
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It's mostly involuntary by now. My BS detectors have been trained on that term my whole life. It's in the same category in my brain as "homeopathic".
"homeopathic" is a specific term that denotes a specific discredited (pseudo)scientific concept, that has been analyzed. "toxin" is an general term that encompasses many established entities as well as phony ones. When you see "toxin", you can ask "which toxin are you referring to?"
My go-to default is black widow venom. If I don't get any specifics, I always just assume that the juice cleanse will rid my system of spider poison.
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I wonder if a laptop/phone screen is capable of producing this specific frequency of pulsed light.. Edit: FWIW: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uaiiJsfgP58
most displays still being 60hz i don't think it'll work well. But a 120hz or 240hz should be able to do it pretty well I'd think.
Funny thing - the video is actually 30 FPS (to check, right click -> stats for nerds). You need to be running at 80 FPS to display a 40hz pulse (intuitively, each black-white cycle takes at least 2 frames to render).
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I read somewhere in the last 10 years that dreams were practice for real life situations. After hearing that, when I awake in the middle of a dream, I always test that hypothesis, and sure enough, sometimes is quite plausible.
Most of my dreams involve a lot of supernatural events and scenarios that'd be quite unlikely in real life. Am I preparing for a day soon where magic, superpowers and other super natural events become real?
Perhaps if you where out hunting & gathering instead of watching movies, reading books and playing videogames your dreams would be more "real".