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by jonmc12 6y ago
Also check out Craft's "Missing Guide for Mac Catalyst Apps" https://www.craft.do/maccatalyst-guide "Mac Catalyst is a technology that enables you to run iOS code on macOS.."
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> Can you imagine a more important change than one in the relationship between intellectual curiosity and money? Semantics and edge conditions aside, no. I can't imagine a more important change; this is truly a concise and meaningfu
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"The Switch", by James Clement, is a great roundup of fasting and other longevity-related behaviors. It's a synthesis of hundreds of research papers, with an emphasis of the 2016 discovery of the mTor switch that triggers aut
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Event Sourced Building Blocks for Domain-Driven Design with Python(leanpub.com)
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A possibly relevant example. Bill Taylor was a generalist, described by a more technical computer scientist colleague as a "concert pianist without fingers". Through his position at NASA, he had the vision to fund Doug Engelbart&#
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https://kevinbinz.com/2019/02/17/domestication/ - nice synthesis of theories in this direction.
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The recent conversation between Tom Bilyeu and Daniel Schmachtenberger is a great primer on this topic. Tom inquires about existential risk from a pragmatic, entrepreneurial point of view. This Economist article only scratches the surface o
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by jonmc12 6y ago
Bees, ants and termites are considered super organisms. As discussed, they don't really act as a great example of emergent behavior of organisms - more analogous to the organization of, say, cells within a mammalian body. Drawing the l
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by jonmc12 7y ago
Recent theories around Prefrontal Synthesis are useful to consider with regard to the evolution of the "modern mind". ".. the existence of a strong critical period for PFS acquisition creates an evolutionary barrier for beha
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by jonmc12 7y ago
I had been listening to some "Game A" vs "Game B" podcasts - Schmachtenberger, Hall (Greenhall), Rutt, etc, just before listening to this podcast. For example: https://soundcloud.com/venturestories/
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by jonmc12 7y ago
> Carell’s team has shown how all nucleobases could form under one set of conditions: two separate ponds that cycle through the seasons, going from wet to dry, from hot to cold, and from acidic to basic, and with chemicals occasionally f
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> Rather than softening our interpretation of a conflict between our models and new evidence, we should always seek the simplest explanation and be willing to abandon failed models. Sure, but what is exactly is "evidence"? The
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There are 15 countries according to this study: https://inequality.stanford.edu/sites/default/files/Pathways... Also see - https://www.trutv.com/shows/adam-ruins-everything/blog&#x2F
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by jonmc12 7y ago
For another perspective of "the study of information in the social world", check out "Variational ecology and the physics of sentient systems" ( https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii&
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Another company: Godaddy. They send an email reminder for auto-renew with a button, "Manage your renewals". Click on that button, but you can't toggle off auto-renew on that page. There are some big toggles to toggle the p
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> But if your goal is to discover new, deeper laws, you need to mix with philosophers again. Some reading in this direction: "How Hume and Mach Helped Einstein Find Special Relativity", Norton "Range", Epstein. Ch 1
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fyi, Chrome 76 in beta with undetectable incognito mode. https://twitter.com/paul_irish/status/1138471166115368960
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"It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could ever have been present. But if (and oh what a big if) we could conceive in some warm little pond with all sorts of amm
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https://kevinbinz.com/2019/02/17/domestication/ - this article points out the "mild neurocristopathy hypothesis" to explain gradual removal of aggression during domestication. "domesticati
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The book, "The Fellowship", references these meeting minutes, along with other research from this period in time: https://www.amazon.com/Fellowship-Gilbert-Newton-Scientific-...
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In the book, The Secret of our Success, Joseph Henrich offers a perspective of cultural inheritance from evolutionary biology. How do children determine who to pay attention to? who to learn from? 1. Skill / Competence ("whose ar
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Causal deconvolution by algorithmic generative models(nature.com)
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If you are interested in more information about Autophagic processes, this video interview is great: https://www.reddit.com/r/fasting/comments/6qobj7/rhonda_patr... Rhonda Patrick interviews Dr Guido Kro
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Methanogens have been discovered in 3.5B yr old rock on earth [1]. Organisms capable of producing methane have been identified only from the domain Archaea. Other methane discoveries in solar system [2]: - 2004, methane was discovered i
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AI "progress" is nearly always presented in a way that confuses people, and usually includes some amount of fear mongering. I think its a problem between research and PR in general, but its exacerbated by weak theory in deep lear
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I was surprised to find so many studies regarding the relationship between long-term memory, an enzyme (PARP-1, usually associated with DNA repair and inflammation), and RNA. Seems relevant to Glanzman's research, but not cited. In 20
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Here are some related papers that speak to timeframes and adaptations related to these early animal genetics. Metazoa (760mya) - "animal multicellularity (gene regulation, signalling, cell adhesion, and cell cycle)" Eumetazoa (760
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You might enjoy the book, The Fellowship: Gilbert, Bacon, Harvey, Wren, Newton, and the Story of a Scientific Revolution. The book is set around 1660, as the center of the scientific universe shifted from Italy to England. Interestingly, t
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Here's the dynamic I've observed as an entrepreneur. On average, investors don't make scientific decisions. Pitches are the input data to these decisions; on average, entrepreneurs who raise capital efficiently optimize for
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> dreams.. "..we're closing the main Facebook app and web site.." I think a better dream would be if FB open-sourced an advertisement-free Facebook, and provided $1B in grants to build permutations of the UI that all sync

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