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For myself, I suddenly lost the ability to read. Then I realized that the real problem was that the words were missing. I wasn't conscious of a hole in my vision, it was just that everything in one part of my vision was gone. Kind of like when you see a star in your periphery but when you look at it straight on it's too faint to see.

As time passed, the zigzag pattern appeared and the hole became more obvious. I thought I was going blind and wondered if I had somehow burnt my retina. It wasn't until later that I thought to google the zigzag pattern. It didn't occur to me that other people would have experienced the exact same, very specific pattern.

I also never had a scintillating scotoma again. It happened a couple of weeks after I started ADHD medication so I suspect they're related. I often get bad headaches and that made me wonder if my headaches had been migraines all along.

Pavlov's dogs aka classical conditioning? Our understanding of how animals learn is fundamental to modern machine learning and AI.

Note that the patients in the meta-analysis already had cancer.

The meta analysis is studying asprin as a cancer treatment, so the subjects were patients who already had cancer, not healthy adults taking it as a preventative. Daily asprin could both be bad for healthy adults and good for cancer patients.

What are the best tools for commercial use? I've been using Midjourney for some stand-in assets, but I haven't researched the license implications.

A lot of that is relevant to machine learning engineer jobs, especially time series modeling, reinforcement leaning, databases, and real time systems, so highlight those areas if you apply to ML eng jobs.

The more detailed you can be, the more "real" your job experience will look. For example, list the time series algorithms you used and quantity how they helped (error metrics, % return, comparison to a naive forecast, etc). I already mentioned latency. Optimizing your code and data for speed is something interesting you could get into too.

What was the technical work you did? Was most of your time spent on market research, coding, blockchain, or designing/implementing algorithms?

I would pick one or more job titles that are both relevant to the job you're applying for and to the work you did and put those on your resume, e.g.

Crypto trader/blockchain developer/investment analyst (self-employed)

- Developed trading platform with X latency

- Implemented blah blah algorithm

- (Throw in more metrics about how you were able to beat competition)

The proof is the skills you built along the way, the same as any job you put on your resume. In data science, at least, we're rarely asked for references. Don't think of yourself as unemployed during that time, and especially don't call yourself unemployed.

I'm a light sleeper and I feel like I have an awareness of everything nearby when I'm asleep (like I used to fall asleep with an open laptop in bed during college without knocking into it). I have a feeling co-sleeping wouldn't be an issue for me, but with all the dire warnings I'm afraid to risk it.

If students are learning how to do API calls to get homework help, I consider that a win.

It seems like a common occurrence for me to google some slightly obscure question and not see any directly relevant search results except a Quora link (usually the other results have my keywords but don't answer the specific question). When I click on the Quora link, I'll find that someone else has asked my exact question but there are no answers. I appreciate the ChatGPT answer because my next step would probably be ChatGPT and it saves me a few clicks.

(Based on the other comment, now I wonder if I just didn't find the human answers due to bad UI.)

It depends on how big the TC difference is. If you can make 2x working at a more volatile company, you can stash away the extra to get through hard times.

I would also only count TC in the first year (or 6 months), not some stock options that vest in year 2+.

I would be annoyed if I started getting so much melatonin from my food that my nightly 0.3 mg melatonin stopped making me sleepy. And I imagine everyone else would be annoyed when they stopped getting sleepy at night from their own melatonin. (Apparently 0.1 - 0.3 mg is what we produce naturally?)

My nearby stores have started carrying 1 mg children's melatonin gummies.

I had the same question. Apparently people who had already been taking Metformin for diabetes were at lower risk of severe Covid [1], which explains why Metformin is being studied.

Looks like the same authors found that Metformin as a treatment after Covid diagnosis did not significantly reduce the the risk of hospitalization or death, even though it does reduce incidence of long Covid.

[1] https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/mis...

[2] https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2201662

Sunscreen! Korea and Japan have great sunscreens that don't feel oily or icky on your skin because they're able to use more modern ingredients. The FDA hasn't approved new sunscreen ingredients since 1999.

This is important for people (commonly women) who regularly use skincare treatments that make their skin extra sensitive to the sun. They want daily facial sunscreen that doesn't feel greasy. We end up buying it on eBay because it's not allowed to be sold in the US.

You can add to that list

- Have to get pap smears before being granted a prescription

Doctors will withhold birth control to coerce women to get regular pap smears, just because it's a lever they have available, not because it's related to the prescription.

I have to take both ADHD meds and birth control, and while it is much easier to get prescribed birth control, it's a similar level of stress of making sure my medication is regularly available, especially for someone who struggles with staying on top of timely tasks.

That would be like saying he used "yup" to sign contracts in the past except this time he used "yeah" (if you accept that yup, yeah, and thumbs up emoji are all linguistically equivalent).

I'm having issues on every website I've tried. Spotify songs not downloading, Twitter images not loading, Google and CNN taking a few minutes to load.

I don't think the kid even has to be confused about what the parent is doing.

If a kid sees a parent on the phone all the time (reading), they want to imitate being on the phone. The fact that the parent is reading is a second level distinction that matters less to young kids, especially when they can more easily imitate "using the phone" by playing games or watching videos.

As a meat-eater, these products have been great as an option for sharing a meal with my vegetarian friends. I don't really know good vegetarian recipes, but I know how to cook a burger.

In case anyone is curious

In 2016 in the US, adult women averaged a weight of 170.3 lb. The median adult woman weighed 161.3 lb.

For men in the United States 18 or older in 2016, average weight was 197.1 lb. Men had a median weight of 189.4 lb.

I guess it makes sense that even the median weight would lead to an overweight BMI (assuming average height), since 74% of the US is overweight or obese.

[1] https://dqydj.com/weight-percentile-calculator-men-women/

I found another paper [1] that implies that "impaired glycemic response" is measured by an "oral glucose tolerance test" and that high levels of blood glucose in the two hours after drinking a glucose solution are what they mean by an impaired response. The graphical abstract [2] from the paper discussed in the Science article has "glycemic response" graphs, which I assume are from this oral glucose tolerance test, although I wasn't able to access the paper's PDF.

[1] https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Impaired-glycemic-respon...

[2] https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(22)00919-9?_re...

You may not be getting enough electrolytes, especially salt. Try drinking broth, taking a salt tablet, or adding some salt to your water. For me, the brain fog lifts within half an hour of taking salt.

At tech companies, "contractor" usually means someone contracted from a staffing company to work 40 hour weeks during normal business hours. They're not someone who is providing an end product with the freedom to set their own schedule, like you typically think of when you hear "contractor".

One death from overdose is more impactful than one death from Covid, but if the increase in number of deaths from Covid (0 -> 400,000/year [1]) is much greater than the increase in deaths from overdoses (78,000 -> 100,000/year [2]), then Covid is the primary cause of the decline. Deaths from accidents also only increased 39,000 -> 43,000/year [3].

Let's say the average age of someone who dies from Covid is 75. Their life expectancy is another 11 years. [4] And someone who dies from an overdose or accident at 30 would have had another 48 years on average. There would have to be (400,000*11)/48 = 92,000 (rough math) additional overdose and accident deaths to come close to the impact Covid has had on life expectancy decline.

[1] https://ourworldindata.org/covid-deaths

[2] https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/pressroom/nchs_press_releases/2021/...

[3] https://www.nhtsa.gov/press-releases/early-estimate-2021-tra...

[4] https://www.ssa.gov/oact/STATS/table4c6.html

I also use "Prime Only" to filter out items shipping from China. If I'm okay waiting a month, I'll buy it from AliExpress for less.

The funny thing is that I might assume a CEO/CTO at a small startup has less experience than a "Chief Software Architect." My assumption would be that the executives are founders and that there's not a minimum experience requirement for founders.

25% by species. Bats only make up 1 billion out of 130 billion mammals, as near as I can tell from a quick Google.

When you hear a tornado warning, the advice is to shelter in place in the most structurally sound part of the building. Given that half of the building collapsed, there may not have been a safe place. Running away from tornadoes is not recommended, and you can't evacuate in advance of a storm because the region that tornados may hit is too large. Do you think there was a problem with how the building was built?

Here's an article with photos for anyone who doesn't want to watch the video: https://fox2now.com/news/illinois/photos-tornado-destroys-ed...

It could work if the car had gone on enough trips, it wasn't clear which one was the important one. Maybe someone is sending the car out every day to hide their tracks.