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by alecst 2y ago
What is your interpretation of Pontzer’s data, then?
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by alecst 2y ago
Pontzer's work isn't about napping. It's about your body having a set point for how many calories it burns, independent (up to a factor of +/- a few hundred calories) of how much exercise you do. For most people this is
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by alecst 2y ago
So is your rebuttal to Pontzer et al that it doesn’t match your personal experience?
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Leg Power Predicts Cognitive Ageing After Ten Years in Older Female Twins(karger.com)
1 points by alecst 3y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 3y ago
Original article: https://www.apa.org/news/press/releases/2024/03/middle-aged-...
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Instinctive Sleeping and Resting Postures (2000)(ncbi.nlm.nih.gov)
369 points by alecst 3y ago|177 comments
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by alecst 3y ago
Submitting this in particular for this story: > Many of these nuns displayed signs of accomplishment, such as the inner heat of tummo. Once a year, on the night of the full moon of the twelfth month of the Tibetan calendar, there was a s
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Nunnery of Yoginis(gebchakgonpa.org)
1 points by alecst 3y ago|1 comments
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by alecst 3y ago
The very point of the question was to address a gender difference that's independent of any specific society. The phrasing was: "spatially across the world, and temporally throughout history." He then talks about innate diffe
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by alecst 3y ago
How can you expect him to answer a question about a major historical difference between men and women across all known societies… without out talking about the essential differences between men and women? Curious how you would have answered
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by alecst 3y ago
It's not a stretch at all in my opinion, not only was I taught this myself (multiple times at two separate universities in the US) but there was a paper addressing this myth as far back as the 60s. Though I do agree with your second po
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by alecst 3y ago
It's so interesting. This isn't the only paper written about this, because I actually came across this same idea last month in a much older paper. Here's an extract from it: > It might have been thought, by some scientists
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Coz: Finding code that counts with causal profiling(github.com)
2 points by alecst 3y ago|0 comments
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by alecst 3y ago
In my experience, the biggest difference is in the API. Besides the fact that it's usually faster than pandas, it also feels faster to write and easier to read.
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by alecst 3y ago
What are some options on MacOs? Hard to do much with SIP enabled. Ran into the issue a few days ago and still no solution.
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by alecst 3y ago
It is not local. That’s what’s wild about it. It’s a minimum over all paths. Re-read that section you posted.
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by alecst 3y ago
Honestly it's a great question. Even the typical physics major isn't going to be able to give you a great answer because learning how this was derived isn't a part of any curriculum that I know of. But if you can accept the p
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by alecst 3y ago
Schrodinger's reasoning was remarkable. The high-level description of classical mechanics was formulated by Hamilton, who was starting from optics. He saw a mathematical analogy between the equations for light and the equations for mec
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by alecst 3y ago
Understood. Sorry. I should have given you the benefit of the doubt. To me, the resolution of the paradox — that the radiated field might contain some encoded information in it — is less weird than the alternative, which is that the informa
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by alecst 3y ago
I don't understand why you would be skeptical. How do you think cell phones work?
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by alecst 3y ago
That's a great summary, and I feel less confused after having read it. Thanks.
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by alecst 3y ago
How does this have anything to do with Sapolsky's argument that free will doesn't exist? What does mindfulness have to do with being a doormat? Why are scientists not philosophers? Why doesn't biology have anything to do with
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by alecst 3y ago
I identify with Sapolsky's position. Plus, there's a shift in perspective which comes from adopting it. For example, instead of blaming someone for "freely making a bad choice" you can shift your attention to the circums
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by alecst 3y ago
Alright: the kicker (and the reason why I don't think this will result in a black hole) is that in order to extract that energy from the particle, you have to continuously re-heat it and add more energy back each time you want kT \ln 2
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by alecst 3y ago
You got a glib answer from another guy, but I like the question. It's kind of like you're saying: how much information can I store in a particle? And should there be a limit? (I'm assuming you're talking about in the cla
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by alecst 3y ago
If you're talking about Landauer's principle, you're talking about a universe where entropy increases, which means some information is lost. By the way, here's the paper I was talking about. I feel like you might enjoy r
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by alecst 3y ago
Landauer's principle is about memory erasure, not storage. Charles Bennett talks about this in one of his papers.
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by alecst 3y ago
What is an example of a page with no styling, then, if not one that uses the defaults? :)
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by alecst 3y ago
I admire all the work the typographers do to make amazing-looking websites, and yet I prefer to read sites (like mathpages, or Dan Luu's site) which have next to no styling. They're just easier for me to read. I'm definitely
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by alecst 3y ago
The way I see it, the point of the very article you're replying to is to find a friendlier version of the potato diet that might be more fun or sustainable. Maybe they'll find that people who replace one of their daily meals with

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