loverofthings

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by loverofthings 9y ago
It's no better than placebo given all the available evidence.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
I'm pretty sure diet filled with legumes, leafy greens, has the same result. There is no blood sugar spike when you eat 1500kcal of beans. It's slow releasing carb filled with fiber. I'm pretty sure at /r/plantbased
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Acupuncture is placebo given all the available evidence.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
acupuncture? it's quite interesting that even animals suffer from placebo, despite us not believing they have cognitive ability to understand someone is doing a "medical procedure" to fix their ailment.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
T2 diabetes can be resolved with a high carb diet too, but people dislike eating vegetables. There's nothing as satiating as fibre filled meal filled with slow release/absorption carbs. No sugar spike, nothing, after 1500kcal cook
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Yeah, I was thinking of a C++ implementation. The nested for loops get optimized very well for the 3-opt case. There's also a couple of tricks one can do with preloading (simd) of distances for evaluating 2,3-opt simultaneously. That a
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by loverofthings 9y ago
7.5% longer than is optimal is way too much. Doing simple 2-opt/3-opt heuristic (10-100ms CPU time of optimization, 200 lines of code) gets you to 1-3% of the optimum.
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by loverofthings 9y ago
We live in the age of globalization and capitalism. There's bunch of cheap stuff coming from all over the world. Collusion on that scale is not possible. There's just more people suffering from diabetes T2 than ever before. Someon
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by loverofthings 9y ago
Number of people suffering from diabetes has risen exponentially, demand goes up, so do the prices. It's going to stabilize as years go on.