jdnier

Why is this article link grayed out and missing it's up arrow?

Yes. I can no longer edit the post.

The Conclusions section does a good job of outlining the merits and limitations of the study. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4085611/#__sec18...

You seem to be missing the practical upshot: If you are middle aged, not exercising, and moderately overweight, HIT twice a week is an effective way to "significantly" improve your aerobic capacity, physical function, and reduce your blood glucose levels. Whether HIT is the optimal way to accomplish that is not the question they were investigating. It's a small sample size but was effective for all eight participants. It works in practice, whether or not you understand why it works theory. There are lots more interesting questions around the edges that can be explored now.

And he's still the CEO. http://www.lifelock.com/about/leadership/management/

"Starting in January 2015, New Horizons will be passing what Stern calls the BTH (better than Hubble) line."

There's not a lot to it so far (a single class, three tests). I wonder if the author has a road map for the project.

From the Abstract: "The authors have experience beyond 25 years demonstrating the success of plant-based nutrition in arresting and reversing cardiovascular disease. Nevertheless, the medical community is still skeptical of patients’ adherence and efficacy of this method. We, therefore, report three case histories of carotid, coronary, and peripheral vascular disease. Each case demonstrates disease progression and the failure of the standard cardiovascular approaches in contrast to the prompt, powerful and enduring resolution of disease with whole foods, plant-based nutrition."

A new follow-up, with three case studies: http://cardiologyacademicpress.com/?p=20690

Specifically, they're higher in saturated fats.

Mea culpa. That was the original title I submitted. When no one had responded for a good while, I inserted the "99.4% effective" part. I should have at least wrapped it [in brackets]. I hadn't intended to drop the question mark.

Nearly 100% of participants who changed their diet had no additional cardiac events; some even had measurable disease reversal. These were all sick people. The hard question is "What is a healthy diet that includes animal products?" This study doesn't address that interesting question but does demonstrate that if you eat a particular healthy diet that happens to not include any animal products, you won't die from heart disease. That's a profound result for the participants, with profound public health implications.

Link to PDF of full article: http://www.jfponline.com/fileadmin/qhi/jfp/pdfs/6307/JFP_063...

"Thus, 99.4% of adherent patients [cardiac patients who switched to a whole foods, plant-based diet] avoided major cardiac events."

"Methods: We followed 198 consecutive patients counseled in plant-based nutrition. These patients with established cardiovascular disease (CVD) were interested in transitioning to plant-based nutrition as an adjunct to usual cardiovascular care. We considered participants adherent if they eliminated dairy, fish, and meat, and added oil."

"Results: Of the 198 patients with CVD, 177 (89%) were adherent. Major cardiac events judged to be recurrent disease totaled one stroke in the adherent cardiovascular participants—a recurrent event rate of .6%, significantly less than reported by other studies of plant-based nutrition therapy. Thirteen of 21 (62%) nonadherent participants experienced adverse events."

Honestly, this is super cool.

"If the data from this morning is good enough, it will tell us what these liquids really are."

A project designated the "Chip-Scale Combinatorial Atomic Navigator".

Letter to a friend as he begrudgingly prepares to shoot Star Wars: https://twitter.com/LettersOfNote/status/451330255244902400/...

Alec Guinness's 100th birthday was last month.

"Guinness said in a 1999 interview that it was actually his idea to kill off Obi-Wan... 'What I didn't tell Lucas was that I just couldn't go on speaking those bloody awful, banal lines. I'd had enough of the mumbo jumbo.'"

Shades of Ralph Nader's "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"

Shades of Ralph Nader's "Only the Super-Rich Can Save Us!"

Mithril docs: http://lhorie.github.io/mithril/

Leo Horie, author of Mithril, writing about how to re-implement some of James Long's "Removing User Interface Complexity, or Why React is Awesome" examples using Mithril (React-like client-side Javascript MVC framework).

Leo Horie, author of Mithril, has written a blog post where he explains how to re-implement some of the article's examples using Mithril (React-like client-side Javascript MVC framework): http://lhorie.github.io/mithril-blog/an-exercise-in-awesomen...

A reminder that Python generator functions let you use multiple yields.

    from __future__ import print_function
    
    
    def fizzbuzzify(integers):
        for i in integers:
            if i % 15 == 0:
                yield 'Fizbuzz'
            elif i % 3 == 0:
                yield 'Fizz'
            elif i % 5 == 0:
                yield 'Buzz'
            else:
                yield str(i)
    
    
    print(', '.join(fizzbuzzify(range(1, 101))))
    
    for i in fizzbuzzify(range(1, 101)):
        print(i)

Great quote from the article: "But then it hit me. Code is not literature and we are not readers. Rather, interesting pieces of code are specimens and we are naturalists. So instead of trying to pick out a piece of code and reading it and then discussing it like a bunch of Comp Lit. grad students, I think a better model is for one of us to play the role of a 19th century naturalist returning from a trip to some exotic island to present to the local scientific society a discussion of the crazy beetles they found: 'Look at the antenna on this monster! They look incredibly ungainly but the male of the species can use these to kill small frogs in whose carcass the females lay their eggs.'"

Yale acknowledges you're effort: "Just this weekend, we learned of a tool that replicates YBB+'s efforts without violating Yale’s appropriate use policy, and that leapfrogs over the hardest questions before us. What we now see is that we need to review our policies and practices." --Dean Mary Miller's response (Jan. 20) http://yalecollege.yale.edu/content/open-letter-yale-communi...?

"But this time the problem is much worse, because the world is different: All of these devices are connected to the Internet. The computers in our routers and modems are much more powerful than the PCs of the mid-1990s, and the Internet of Things will put computers into all sorts of consumer devices. The industries producing these devices are even less capable of fixing the problem than the PC and software industries were."