treprinum

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Comment · 1 year ago
I would suspect the physiological base of burnout is the depletion of mainly B vitamins in the brain. When you look at the Krebs cycle, the main energetic reaction in every cell, B vitamins play crucial role whether they act as catalysts of enzymes (B1, B2), provide electron transport (B2/B3 to FAD/NAD+) or are required by sub-processes of the cycle (B5, B7, B12). Being under constant stress is known to deplete B vitamins and at some point their lowered availability starts inhibiting higher cognitive tasks in favor of just survival. Diagnosing this is problematic as serum levels don't tell much about tissue levels.
Comment · 1 year ago
Didn't Chinese scientists recently show a crazy success rate (~90%) of treating advanced Alzheimer/dementia by performing a microsurgery of the neck, allowing brain to dispose accumulated waste?
Comment · 1 year ago
Nvidia just did what Intel/AMD should have done to threaten CUDA ecosystem - release a "cheap" 128GB local inference appliance/GPU. Well done Nvidia, and it looks bleak for any AI Intel/AMD efforts in the future.
Comment · 1 year ago
Bad idea for social marketing - by the time a post becomes popular, it disappears.
Comment · 1 year ago
Get admitted to online UIUC iMBA or BU OMBA, take the marketing/sales/entrepreneurship courses, quit.
Comment · 1 year ago
That's a pity! CGTalk was the site where I first learned about Cg from Nvidia that later morphed into CUDA so unbeknownst to them, CGTalk was at the forefront of the AI by popularizing it.
Comment · 1 year ago
Would that mean that we would need to exchange latent "embeddings" between various "reasoning" models for emulating thinking and an LLM will be just about converting to/from human language when interfacing with mere humans, at some point in the future?
Comment · 1 year ago
I am really glad we are finding new pieces of the puzzle of how our gut works and perhaps can someday understand their effect on immunity, neuro-degeneration, cancer etc. for which we now only have accidental findings.
Comment · 1 year ago
I said in some areas of Barcelona which is true. Now somebody did the Simpson's paradox using the whole data set instead of conditional data, leading to a different result.
Comment · 1 year ago
So you cherry pick one real-world observation, try to refute it and it makes the rest wonderland? EU is doing super great because you just scentifically proved that Barcelona can't be as bad as LA?
Comment · 1 year ago
No, but EU with all its social agenda is now imploding at unusual places that were once considered great places to live, inflation is doing its thing. In the US tech is considered the most important engine of the economy, EU wasted over a decade and lost its only competitive company that led one large sub-field of tech (Nokia). Pretending nothing is going on won't help the EU, sooner or later this will be apparent everywhere (with a chance a hot war with Russia collapses it quicker).
Comment · 1 year ago
Why would anyone outside some desperate eastern European countries want to join? EU is going down hard, since 2008 no meaningful GDP growth, flat salaries, no tech companies propelling growth, old population, all the while US and Chinese GDP is exploding. The only thing EU has is regulation and high taxes, everything else is deteriorating quickly and the rate of decline is accelerating. Barcelona, previously a jewel of Europe, now has as many homeless as LA in some areas.

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