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  • consuming 2-3 servings of fish 5-6 days out of the week
    QoL improvements
  • unlimited zotero storage + daylight computer. high-refresh rate on a yellow-backlit tablet is incredibly soothing & perfect to fall asleep to
    QoL improvements
  • The many professions are also in part due to what one might call territorial disputes that play out over decades
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • PERSON A: Maybe we should blow up the entire world. PERSON B: That’s preposterous. We need to be extremely careful. What if we just blew up 99% of the world?
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • FREEMAN: “Are you happy?” PATIENT: “Yes.” FREEMAN: “Do you remember being upset when you came here?” PATIENT: “Yes, I was quite upset, wasn’t I?” FREEMAN: “What was it all about?” PATIENT: “I don’t know. I seem to have forgotten. It doesn’t seem important now.”
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • With the help of the staff at the hospitals in Lakin, Huntington, Spencer, and Easton, Freeman did 225 transorbital lobotomies during a twelve-day period in August 1952. That’s around nineteen per day!
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • What are these terrible things I hear about you doing lobotomies in your office with an ice pick? I have just been to California and Minnesota and heard about it in both places. Why not use a shotgun? It would be quicker!
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • Convinced that nerve-cell bodies as well as fibers were destroyed by the procedure, Freeman and Watts had decided on lobotomy as a more appropriate name for the operation than leucotomy, which implies the cutting of nerve fibers only.
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • Many scholars have made a career out of being the X Person. If you’ve read about X, you’ve probably seen or heard about at least one of their approximately one hundred thousand articles on X.
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • Although the first useful picture from a patient had not been obtained until the end of June 1927, he had published 8 articles on the subject before the year ended, and 17 in 1928—a year in which he also made an extensive journey to Brazil to lecture on cerebral arteriography. By 1934, he had written 2 books and 112 articles on the subject.
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • Moniz became wheelchair-bound after a psychotic patient (albeit not one he had lobotomized!) shot him five times in 1939.
    Your Book Review: Great And Desperate Cures
  • In Helmut Schoeck's Envy, he discusses the dysfunctional cultures all have an excess of undisguised envy
    Falkenblog: Why Envy Dominates Greed
  • The caffeine citrate injection, used for apnea of the premature newborn, was initially approved by the FDA in 1999. According to an article from 2017, more than 15 million babies are born prematurely worldwide. This correlates to about 1 in 10 births. Premature birth can lead to apnea and bronchopulmonary dysplasia, a condition that interferes with lung development and may eventually cause asthma or early onset emphysema in those born prematurely. Caffeine is beneficial in preventing and treating apnea and bronchopulmonary dysplasia in newborns, improving the quality of life of premature infan…
    Caffeine | C8H10N4O2 | CID 2519 - PubChem
  • He was one of very few physicists to excel in both theoretical and experimental physics.
    Enrico Fermi
  • The defining feature is the structural mismatch between what’s priced and what’s actually delivered: the customer pays for an outcome and receives an attempt, and the seller knows, with actuarial confidence, that the ratio of attempts to outcomes is brutal and fixed before anyone walks in the door or takes any courses.
    The Dreamer Economy - by Somewhere - Vectorculture
  • giving me great campfire stories to tell people in software about finding out that I qualified for a GRAMMY award while jobless at my parents’ house in the months leading up to my thesis defense
    The Dreamer Economy - by Somewhere - Vectorculture
  • Population Based Training (PBT)
    Hyperparameter optimization
  • Why is there a two trough (rather than 1) absorption spectrum of the atmosphere? Visible light (+ a bit more) and radio waves get through, but long wavelength radio waves, infrared, and gamma rays/x-rays/UV blocked.
    stupid questions IIa - norvid_studies
  • If Google search has degraded so badly, why isn't there a clear replacement/what are the % contributions from: -it hasn't (unlikely) -adversarial SEO red queen (competitors can't do better) -typical users don't care | most users don't care enough to change their finger cache -I don't know the term (monopoly credible deterrence?): if competitor did clearly improve, Google would dump its huge capital into fixing search and drive competitor back to unprofitability, so not worth investing -other [January 2023]
    stupid questions IIa - norvid_studies
  • Did ancient astronomy have any practical benefits at all? Two I can imagine: -helps time the growing season -helps legitimate priests if they can predict celestial events in advance But did it? Or was it just a side effect of social complexity, no extra productive benefit? (or did this vary significantly in place and time)
    stupid questions IIa - norvid_studies
  • Adjunctive medications will get studied for facilitating withdrawal. Lamotrigine comes to mind as a plausible candidate. Other mood-stabilizing and anxiolytic medications as well. It is also possible that the first agents shown to help will be the ones addressing symptoms like anxiety, insomnia, somatic hyperarousal (e.g. gabapentin, propranolol, clonidine) rather than ones selected by receptor-level reasoning. These medications will be resisted by old-school folks belonging to iatrogenic harm communities, but new patients with no ideological commitments, looking simply for relief, will welcom…
    Some Predictions About the Future of “Withdrawal Studies”
  • Ultimately I think fatherhood is shaping up to be the thing that might be most effective at challenging me to face the things that I was previously averse to facing. This is narratively very convenient, and I know it, and I’m using it purposefully. You can use parenthood as a cover story, a kind of Trojan horse to smuggle all sorts of changes in your life that you were always meaning to make, but never quite found the right context for
    the rehab ladder - by visakan veerasamy
  • I’ve noticed on several occasions that professional athletes and stuntpeople seem to have very little guilt or shame about the rehabilitation process when they’re learning to walk again.
    the rehab ladder - by visakan veerasamy
  • stumbling upon marvellous ruins of an older civilization
    the rehab ladder - by visakan veerasamy
  • She was gauche in movement and in a sense ugly of face, but with how small a twist might she not suddenly have become beautiful.
    Lady Fuchsia Groan
  • Fuchsia is a dreamer and a romantic, who escapes the dull pace of life in Gormenghast by reading fantasy tales. She frequently disappears into her secret attic rooms to fantasize and sulk. She scrawls on walls with charcoal and makes such wild claims as "[W]hen I am Queen, I am going to burn down the castle!"
    Lady Fuchsia Groan
  • Carson was so convinced that FM was not a suitable solution to the static found in AM transmission systems that he once remarked, “Static, like the poor, will always be with us.”2
    Frequency Modulation Fundamentals - Mini-Circuits Blog
  • A sufficient sample-rate is therefore anything larger than 2 𝐵 samples per second. Equivalently, for a given sample rate 𝑓 𝑠 , perfect reconstruction is guaranteed possible for a bandlimit 𝐵 < 𝑓 𝑠 / 2 .
    Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem
  • MFCCs are commonly derived as follows:[2][3] Take the Fourier transform of (a windowed excerpt of) a signal. Map the powers of the spectrum obtained above onto the mel scale, using triangular overlapping windows or alternatively, cosine overlapping windows. Take the logs of the powers at each of the mel frequencies. Take the discrete cosine transform of the list of mel log powers, as if it were a signal. The MFCCs are the amplitudes of the resulting spectrum.
    Mel-frequency cepstrum
  • bistatic--two separate antennas, one for transmitting, one for receiving. Ex.: military over-the-horizon radars.
    radar categorization
  • Use preferably two camera views
    LeRobot Community Datasets: The “ImageNet” of Robotics — When and How?
  • The markets that exist are the markets to compete in. The people (read: “demand”) know best what they want; to try to guess would be foolishness.
    Having a very Chinese time - by Theo Bleier
  • “In the face of pressure, choosing to ‘lie flat’ is not only unjust, but shameful. There is no value whatsoever in this poisonous chicken soup.”
    Having a very Chinese time - by Theo Bleier
  • Eventually, he moved to Hong Kong to start a trading company. He fronted to customers that he owned his production, but he really just passed the orders off to his friends.
    Having a very Chinese time - by Theo Bleier
  • I had followed the familiar path many students around me were taking — the long, relentless preparation for the engineering entrance exams that seemed to structure our final years of school as well as decide the rest of our lives. The outcome… neither ruinous nor favourable. I did not secure a seat in one of those prestigious institutes. Instead, the probability cloud that once contained those futures collapsed into something closer to home: a degree in boring old computer science at a college nearby. A continuation of the predictable arc that was my life.
    a superposition of regret and relief - by vaishnavi ☆ﾟ.*
  • ature defences include: Altruism: Constructive service to others that brings pleasure and personal satisfaction. Anticipation: Realistic planning for future discomfort. Humour: Expression of ideas and feelings that gives pleasure to others while retaining some of their innate distress. Sublimation: Transformation of unhelpful emotions or instincts into healthy actions; for example, channeling aggression into a contact sport.[36] Suppression: Conscious decision to delay attention to a thought, emotion, or need in order to cope with present reality.
    Defence mechanism
  • The fluctuation–dissipation theorem was proven by Herbert Callen and Theodore Welton in 1951[1] and expanded by Ryogo Kubo. There are antecedents to the general theorem, including Einstein's explanation of Brownian motion[2] during his annus mirabilis and Harry Nyquist's explanation in 1928 of Johnson noise in electrical resistors.[3]
    Fluctuation–dissipation theorem
  • Most doctors follow familiar patterns and rules, often improvising around those rules. In their methods of working they are more like jazz musicians than scientists.
    Doctors are not scientists - PMC
  • The name Abominable Snowman was coined in 1921, the year Lieutenant-Colonel Charles Howard-Bury led the 1921 British Mount Everest reconnaissance expedition
    Yeti
  • Tibetan lore describes three main varieties of Yetis—the Nyalmo
    Yeti
  • also had multiple pet fish but my brother kept forgetting to feed them, so I built a robotic fish for him
    Shiza Charania
  • According to Stephenson, the title is a play on Necronomicon, the title of a book mentioned in the stories of horror writer H. P. Lovecraft: I wanted to give it a title a 17th-century book by a scholar would be likely to have. And that's how I came up with Cryptonomicon.
    Cryptonomicon
  • However, this does not imply that reciprocity has solved the ill-posed inverse problem of EEG. Rather, it was shown that EEG source localization and TES targeting are in fact two sides of the same optimization problem.
    Optimal use of EEG recordings to target active brain areas with transcranial electrical stimulation - ScienceDirect
  • The main story follows Paul's development from an uncritical cog in the system to one of its critics. Paul's father had held a supremo status that had given him almost complete control over the nation's economy. Paul has inherited his father's reputation but harbors an uneasy dissatisfaction with the industrial system and his own contribution to society.
    Player Piano (novel)
  • The main story follows Paul's development from an uncritical cog in the system to one of its critics
    Player Piano (novel)
  • Basics of MRI National Institutes of Health (.gov) https://fmrif.nimh.nih.gov › pdf › 2016_05_vina...
    mri data basics - Google Search
  • We are grateful for Jay McClelland, CSLI, Judy Fan, and Robert Hawkins for funding our meetings.
    CompCogSci Reading Group - Home
  • When he was in school, Johann encouraged Daniel to study business citing poor financial compensation for mathematicians. Daniel initially refused but later relented and studied both business and medicine at his father's behest under the condition that his father would teach him mathematics privately
    Daniel Bernoulli
  • that weak correlations between pairs of neurons coexist with strongly collective behaviour in the responses of ten or more neurons
    Weak pairwise correlations imply strongly correlated network states in a neural population - PubMed
  • Zeeman is known among the wider scientific public for his contribution to, and spreading awareness of catastrophe theory, which was due initially to another topologist, René Thom, and for his Christmas lectures about mathematics on television in 1978.
    Christopher Zeeman