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javiermares··on Scientists warn of potential wave of Covid-linked brain damage
i'd love to know, too. do we even know, yet?
javiermares··on Chloroquine has shown apparent efficacy in treatment of Covid-19
taken over the years
javiermares··on Japan has 33k businesses at least a century old
If the changes are small and gradual enough, identity is preserved, like in atoms in our brains, or an beloved antique car.
javiermares··on The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)
Thanks, all of that is quite interesting. I want to learn more.
javiermares··on The Effect of Cold Showering on Health and Work (2016)
Someone knowledgeable please advise:

Do cryotherapy or cold showers increase the risk of developing Alzheimer's disease in the long term?

"Tau phosphorylation is exquisitely sensitive to temperature, increasing by 80% for each degree below 37°C, due to exponential decrease in PP2A activity during direct hypothermia, or anesthesia-induced hypothermia."

This means that one might expect a significant increase in tau phosphorylation from modest decreases in body temperature, possibly leading to increased risk of Alzheimer's in the long run.

Source: https://www.nature.com/articles/srep00480

javiermares··on Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
i'm with you but isn't this different, given that it's open source? of which twitter itself will eventually be a client
javiermares··on Twitter funding a team to develop an open standard for social media
if anything, whimsical memery adds authenticity, sincerity, hacky feeling. i'd be suspicious of anything more packaged or polished
javiermares··on Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox (2004) [pdf]
So many resources are freed when remote working that can be invested in other activities that involve human interaction.
javiermares··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
Absolutely yes
javiermares··on Emacs: The Editor for the Next Forty Years [video]
Same here.
javiermares··on Renaissance Technologies
* ~10%
javiermares··on Renaissance Technologies
Hold on, it's not comparable to the ~10$ CAGR of the SP500 is it? RenTec's fund is capped so it's an average return of 71.9% but not an annualized return, since the returns are not compounded. Correct?
javiermares··on Apple has removed or restricted several screen-time and parental-control apps
Thanks for this. What a sensationalistic title.
javiermares··on Otonomo, with nearly $55M in funding, is cloning our product
Who is Rocket? Could you give us a link, please?
javiermares··on Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
Thanks!
javiermares··on Oxford Deep NLP – An advanced course on natural language processing
Where could I find a list of links to the videos?
javiermares··on Coursera shuts access to old platform courses
Thank you very much for the clarification. Would it be possible for you to share with us the list of the few dozen courses that will not migrate to the new platform?
javiermares··on Your freedom online is threatened by an EU proposal.
How was the SOPA strike organized? We need another one, pronto.
javiermares··on Don’t Take Your Vitamins
For what it's worth, regarding the multivitamin and prostate cancer study: http://www.rayandterry.com/blog/prostate-cancer-and-vitamin-...
javiermares··on Minute 53, very emotional moment by Elon Musk
Building a car is an engineering project. Building a new kind of car will be a science intensive engineering project, but an engineering project nevertheless. Designing a new car is an attempt at optimizing a high dimensional design space that spans many disciplines that are interdependent. This requires fundamentally different methods and organization than those used conventional research.