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An oil rig that experienced an explosive decompression in 1983 that killed four divers and one dive tender, as well as badly injured another dive tender.

The divers were killed by a pressure of 9 atm. The pressure the Oceangate Titan experienced was over 400 atm.

I thought this was interesting, anyone using this? Is the juice worth the squeeze?

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I found this paragraph really interesting:

"... Joel Nigg has found that excessively irritable infants are more likely to become children who cannot regulate their anger or impulses when frustrated, while excessively exuberant infants are more likely to become impulsive children. In both cases, the development of effortful control is inhibited. These findings have led Nigg to propose that ADHD is not a disorder of inattention or hyperactivity, but instead a disorder of temperament-based self-regulation"

This is the beginning of of the next generation of computing, amazing stuff.

Project link: DALL·E: Creating Images from Text https://openai.com/blog/dall-e/

"An increase of 10 dB reduces productivity by approximately 5%."

I'm surprised it isn't more. As someone who is particularly distracted by noise and interruptions, I usually have some music without lyrics playing in noise cancelling headphones whenever I'm in an open office environment.

The real question is when are companies going to pick up on research like this and make changes to maximize productivity. What do offices at FAANG look like?

This topic was recently in the news: https://www.theonion.com/damning-report-finds-white-house-ig...

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The Ketogenic Diet as a Treatment Paradigm for Diverse Neurological Disorders https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3321471/

Effects of ketone bodies in Alzheimer's disease in relation to neural hypometabolism, β‐amyloid toxicity, and astrocyte function https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/jnc.13107

"Diet supplementation with ketone bodies (acetoacetate and β‐hydroxybuturate) or medium‐length fatty acids generating ketone bodies has consistently been found to cause modest improvement of mental function in Alzheimer's patients. It was suggested that the therapeutic effect might be more pronounced if treatment was begun at a pre‐clinical stage of the disease instead of well after its manifestation."

The Order of Time by Carlo Rovelli (https://www.amazon.com/Order-Time-Carlo-Rovelli/dp/073521610...) is an amazing and eye opening book on the topic of time. Carlo, a theoretical physicist who specializes in quantum gravity, slowly peels back the layers of the conceptual onion to get to some pretty strange fundamental truths about time.

As a side note, the Audible book is read by Benedict Cumberbach and is a delightful listen.

In Blindsight by Peter Watts, there are a group of revived soldiers that serve as mercenaries. Upon dying, they are 'resurrected' and immediately given a choice to go back to being dead -or- pay off the resurrection fee by serving as a zombie soldier for 8-10 years. If they survive their service, they are free to continue living in whatever mangled state their body currently is. They unaware/unconscious while serving, so they won't have any memory of the horrors that they commit or are acted upon them.

It would be strange to return to your life after dying 10 years ago, but I'd probably take the deal.

You're not the only who thinks this is a great idea.

https://www.thoughtworks.com/insights/blog/enabling-trunk-ba...

PBS NewsHour: FCC chair Ajit Pai explains why he wants to scrap net neutrality https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Q5_oV4JB10

excerpts from the speech: https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/north-korea-so...

I love his channel! I'm surprised it isn't more popular, it has top notch content and regularly scheduled releases.

https://www.susanjfowler.com/blog/2017/2/19/reflecting-on-on...

For those that didn't google her. The first hit I got was a blog post about her sexual harassment at Uber.

After reporting the incident: "I was then told that I had to make a choice: (i) I could either go and find another team and then never have to interact with this man again, or (ii) I could stay on the team, but I would have to understand that he would most likely give me a poor performance review when review time came around, and there was nothing they could do about that. I remarked that this didn't seem like much of a choice, and that I wanted to stay on the team because I had significant expertise in the exact project that the team was struggling to complete (it was genuinely in the company's best interest to have me on that team), but they told me the same thing again and again. One HR rep even explicitly told me that it wouldn't be retaliation if I received a negative review later because I had been "given an option". I tried to escalate the situation but got nowhere with either HR or with my own management chain (who continued to insist that they had given him a stern-talking to and didn't want to ruin his career over his "first offense")."

Vice wrote a piece on him in 2014: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/gods-lonely-progr...

He drinks a lot of caffeine and lives mostly on a 48-hour schedule: "I stay awake 16 * 2 and sleep 8 * 2."

Things WILL get better.

It takes time to find the right medication, but if you don't feel better within 2 weeks tell your doctor and they'll give your something. I've had people close to me go through the same thing and it took a while to finally hone in on something that works. I know it must feel like the most hopeless and frustrating situation, but hang in there. Something out there will work, you just need patience.

Just remember that it's not your fault. Good luck.