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by nova 16y ago
Two great books that really impacted me, both about the horrors of bad research: "Good Calories, Bad Calories", by Gary Taubes, on nutrition and health. "The Blank Slate", by Steven Pinker, on human nature.
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by nova 16y ago
Try -march=<cpu>
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by nova 16y ago
Maybe a non-broken implementation is not possible.
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by nova 16y ago
> This is a subject of irrationality I have trouble understanding That's because you are utterly, terribly wrong, and like you millions of people, including doctors. And that's why so many people have trouble losing weight. You think yo
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by nova 16y ago
That's actually a not so bad failure mode, I think.
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by nova 16y ago
Also called marginal utility.
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by nova 17y ago
Or you could say the China Study is vegetarian FUD backed by other lobbies (soy, grains, corn, etc). By the way, nothing wrong with fat in our diets, unless is tran-fats or excess omega 6 PUFAs (typically seed oils). Please read Gary Taubes
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by nova 17y ago
Oh yes, the China Study. http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/China-Study.html
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by nova 17y ago
> However, eating fruits and vegetables is still necessary for proper bodily function and general health. Tell that to (ancient) Inuit.
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by nova 17y ago
KB does exist, it's a Kelvin-byte.
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by nova 17y ago
So, Shadows and Vorlons?
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by nova 17y ago
regardless of how they are represented, are not things that should be added together. Maybe something about torsors? http://math.ucr.edu/home/baez/torsors.html
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by nova 17y ago
free to own much of the resources/land/factories/IP One of these things doesn't belong.
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by nova 17y ago
Read Steven Pinker's "The Blank Slate" for more atrocities of the XXth century.
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by nova 17y ago
I think we have to question the science when he states that exercise is an inefficient tool for weight loss. The science of the book is sound. And he is right about exercise: it's good for fitness (as in muscle) and other health reasons,
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by nova 17y ago
Yes you can decompose it further but it doesn't matter. Just consider that "energy intake" is the energy actually absorbed by your body, not what you put in your mouth. (Try eating grass. It has energy, but we can't use it) My point is that
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by nova 17y ago
After (a very brief) look this seems to me like another Atkins-style diet Taubes' book is not a diet book, it's a thick book on all the things that are wrong on modern research on nutrition. It explains why the problem is not fats (nor gr
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by nova 17y ago
Just write the equation like this: Energy intake - Energy expenditure - Change in energy stores = 0 There. Just f(x,y,z)=0. That's what the first law really says. There is no causality implied, it just a first integral of the "motion" of
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by nova 17y ago
Taubes deserves a Nobel-level award just for that book.
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by nova 17y ago
The topic is very important but the article was really bad. A few no-nonsense links for the interested: http://wholehealthsource.blogspot.com/ http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/ http://www.paleonu.com/ http://high-fat-nutrition.blog
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by nova 17y ago
I understand that E.T. Jaynes' book on probability theory, which I have not yet read, does not go the route of random variables. Jaynes' book is excellent but is more about the philosophy of the Bayesian interpretation of probability than
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by nova 17y ago
Yes. I think this exceeds the capacity of the blog medium.
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by nova 17y ago
don't know if they are as unusable though Pretty much.
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by nova 17y ago
in practice, "hookup culture" is founded on the humiliation of the woman uh?
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by nova 17y ago
We sure need more "crazies" like him.
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by nova 17y ago
> it's obvious that we need some convergence. Why? This isn't politics. Maybe one approach IS better than the other. Or maybe there are better methods we don't know. In fact I think most Bayesians would consider Frequentist methods eith
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by nova 17y ago
> or using some of your data to model your prior I think that kinda missing the point.
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by nova 17y ago
> What is the best way to deal with skeptics of generally accepted ideas? You know, this could be read very, very wrongly.
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by nova 17y ago
> As my friend put it, there's a shortage of discipline in the world. This is very wrong. Obesity is not a shortage of discipline, is a hormonal disruption. We play havoc with insulin eating too much of things we didn't evolved to eat.
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by nova 17y ago
This is obviously true, but it's not as simple as it may seem. The body has a complex energy regulation system and hunger, energy consumption via metabolism and energy storage are interlaced. It's not as simple as "energy in" = independent

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