occasionally, but it doesn’t scratch the same itch for me. I’ve enjoyed as ANW moved away from the climbing-type obstacles and towards the gymnast/acrobat type obstacles. The climbing ones never look effortless.
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How Stuart Buck funded the replication crisis
Steven Adler reports that NVIDIA is attempting to stifle pro-export-control speach
The Biochemical Beauty of Retatrutide: How GLP-1s Actually Work
I like Ninja Warrior, a sport that is functionally an obstacle course for insane gymnasts. Every time I watch, I notice how much easier it is to be good at things. It’s not just that good technique needs less strength for a given move. It’s that arm strength gets you off obstacles faster, which conserves precious finger strength.. Ninjas that are good at linking moves conserve momentum instead of needing to rebuild it, further saving upper body and finger strength.
E.g. Max vs. Taylor in the finals (start at 12:48). Keep in mind that Taylor is the top contender for best female ninja, so she’s not suffering from technique issues.
Or take Hades, a beat-em-up in which you receive power-ups throughout the game. Some of the powerups make you better at hurting enemies, some give you more hit points. Sometimes you get a choice of power-up. If you’re constantly being hit, you want the hit points. But if you’re good enough at dodging you don’t need them and can get an offensive power instead, which will let you kill enemies faster and get hit even less.
I appreciate your thoughtfulness in creating a separate feed
I take antidepressants. You’re welcome
If you have a bad reaction to mRNA covid vaccines, consider getting the Novavax vaccine, which is a traditional subunit vaccine. Moderna knocks me out for a day and triggers some autoimmune symptoms, but Novavax just gives me a slightly sore arm.
Some people think drugs like retatrutide have an effect on motivation [...]
Is there a reason you frame this as motivation and not energy? There’s a solid mechanistic reason to expect more energy.
I mix cricket, whey, or liver powder into smoothies. You don’t need a lot to 80⁄20 the benefits.
Your own screenshot shows that pescatarians do better than vegans (not statistically significant, but neither is the difference between vegans and omnivores). And if you break it down by sex (and continue to ignore statistical significance), veganism is the worst choice for women after unconstrained omnivorism
More of my opinion of this study here.
“Rocks for jocks” isn’t a stereotype because geology is easy. It’s a stereotype because rocks are heavy and field sites are far away.
My sense is that for almost all funders, money is viewed as an input with which to save souls, rather than a terminal goal like it is for VCs. Which isn’t to say there aren’t financial abuses, but they genuinely feel like a departure from form, rather than especially obvious cases of something everyone is doing.
With non-denominational churches, funders can’t sack the planter, they can just decline future funding. It’s not impossible they could fund a hostile takeover, but early church plants are such cults of personality with so little in assets that it wouldn’t really make sense to do so- you’d rather just found another planter who can start his own cult of personality (who might buy the sound system off a failed plant). As churches get bigger there will generally be a board who might have the power to fire the pastor, and denominational churches are either subject to control by the denomination or have a board with firing power from the beginning.
what are you noticing that smells like LLM? I only skimmed, but I didn’t see anything that tripped my radar, and lawyer talk can sound a lot like LLM talk.
sure, but the fact that that’s a really reasonable algorithm would not have saved the co-workers from the consequences of merging with the probably-predatory company, in the world where the company didn’t happen to have an employee with the perfect anecdote.
FTX, Golden Geese, and The Widow’s Mite
Listening to people demand more specifics from If Anyone Builds it, Everyone Dies gives me a similar feeling to when a friend’s start-up was considering a merger.
Friend got a bad feeling about this because the other company clearly had different goals, was more sophisticated than them, and had an opportunistic vibe. Friend didn’t know how specifically other company would screw them, but that was part of the point- their company wasn’t sophisticated enough to defend themselves from the other one.
Friend fought a miserable battle with their coworkers over this. They were called chicken little because they couldn’t explain their threat model, until another employee stepped in with a story of how they’d been outmaneuvered at a previous company in exactly the way friend feared but couldn’t describe. Suddenly, co-workers came around on the issue. They ultimately decided against the merger.
“They’ll be so much smarter I can’t describe how they’ll beat us” can feel like a shitty argument because it’s hard to disprove, but sometimes it’s true. The debate has to be about whether a specific They will actually be that smart.
It will help get early dates, but it also sets a tone for what they should expect in the future.
if the problem is with the receptor, taking more won’t make a difference
Because it’s the body’s natural reaction to calorie deficits.