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* A Mind at Play (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Mind_at_Play) is a bio of Shannon. I think a much better bio could be written, but this is all we have.

* "Information Theory" by Cover and Thomas is a mathematical introduction to information theory. This is a technical book, and is very different than the books above.

If you haven't yet done so, read Shannon's paper as linked above

Comment · 2 years ago

I couldn't finish Sinclair's book on aging [1]; even in a book that he co-authored he comes across as a scammer

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifespan:_Why_We_Age_%E2%80%93...

Comment · 2 years ago

MKBHD on Twitter: https://twitter.com/MKBHD/status/1777045761705853295

"Just pointed my phone camera directly at the midday sun for 5 minute straight. It got a little warm, but... no damage. I'm gonna go ahead and say point your phones at the eclipse tomorrow, it'll be fine "

just because his phone was fine doesn't mean yours will be

Comment · 2 years ago

Possibly-related:

* 8sleep blog about the study: https://www.eightsleep.com/blog/research-paper-reveals-the-e...

* "Sleep and subjective age: protect your sleep if you want to feel young" https://royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/10.1098/rspb.2024.017...

Comment · 2 years ago

I guess "Degen" in this context means [1] a person "engaged in high-risk, high-reward strategies without much regard for potential losses. These individuals were seen as reckless, often gambling with their investments in the hopes of striking it rich."

[1] https://woolypooly.com/en/blog/degen

Comment · 2 years ago

An opposing view: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E4nJ07_02NQ

I often buy organic food: I can afford it and like the goal of using zero or minimal pesticides and herbicides. For me, it's like Pascal's wager: it can't hurt

Comment · 2 years ago

Thanks for responding

Comment · 2 years ago

mb needs a 2015 tag?

Comment · 2 years ago

Where did you get that number?

Vitalik gave goals of 1.33 MB per second in blob space, and a compressed tx size of 25 bytes. This gives around 50,000 transactions per second, which seems like a worthy goal.

Comment · 2 years ago

At first I thought the lack of a link was a sort of recursive comment on our online situation (We are always clicking, but never going anywhere).

But I guess the real situation is just that someone forgot the actual link, which could be the following:

https://faunalytics.org/not-alone-universal-dangers-social-i...

Comment · 2 years ago

Table 1 in that article doesn't satisfy my internal bullshit detector, and it looks like others have debunked it as well; see the article below for an example.

https://www.intmath.com/blog/mathematics/retiring-early-mean...

Comment · 2 years ago

Begrudging?

From m-w.com the definition of begrudging is "said, done, or given reluctantly"

So you want PMs who will only work at Eight sleep reluctantly?