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rajadigopula··on Some strategies may help against Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
I totally agree. It will be beneficial for everyone.
rajadigopula··on Some strategies may help against Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
May be you forgot the context I mentioned it in. We have to look for alternatives when there is no definitive one present for the time being.

He's been curing patients for past 20 years with diet changes alone. So, I am impressed with his results and shared his idea. Doing a study on it and not using it until you study is your problem. In other words, I sense your worry of how your medicine will react since it's posion (full of unnatural chemicals) compared to a natural food item in it's unaltered form which is being used in daily food consumption in many cultures. Are you suggesting people taking medicine to stop eating food on a daily basis? I never suggested to stop any medication.

I am more than willing to contact him, will you be able to fund the study?

rajadigopula··on Some strategies may help against Alzheimer’s disease and other dementias
> we should report on new ideas with a great deal of skepticism until the evidence becomes very strong

A nutritionist with Ph.d with good credibility claims that he got good results with using black sesame seeds. The way he used it is - roast 2 spoons of black sesame seeds and eat once a week for 6 months (no need/should not take every day). He claims to have cured them in 6 months. If I have someone I know I would try as there is no harm in having a regular food item taken once a week. Don't know how it works or if any studies already done to back it up.

rajadigopula··on Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
Agree. Unfortunately, this is never going to happen. The few still practicing Ayurveda properly come from a background where they learned it from their ancestors within their family and practicing it for free and never allow commercialization of their knowledge. But they can gladly share the knowledge to people who want to learn. Food, Education and Medicine/health are the 3 things the practitioners in Indian culture believes to keep free. A few decades ago, you want to gain education, you seek a guru and become a disciple and he teaches for free. You got a health issue, you go to a doctor and he treats you for free. Same with food, every town/village used to have centers where food is served free to anyone. Although it's all gone decades ago, there are still practitioners who treat patients for free and only take donations and not fee. Sounds, funny but It's easy to understand the underlying wisdom, how many studies today are funded by people with commercial interests? Research on egg is funded by Meat industry, Research on milk is funded by Diary industry etc. How is that turning out for everyone?
rajadigopula··on Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
I am not against validity through studies. But the approach/methodology taken in most studies on food/drugs are very limited in nature and often flawed giving skewed results (e.g. I hope everyone knows about the approach taken in dividing fat into 3 categories and how it is taken as reference to ruin health of so many humans over decades through refined oils). I totally agree with him in that regard.
rajadigopula··on Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
Understood. May be the modern world needs another wim hof to become a subject to the existing science - validity though current limited existing medical tools to prove/validate that humans can get access to autonomous nervous system and heal themselves (which was thought to be impossible in modern days). The approach Dr. hedge took is not registering with the rest of the world according to the comments above. May be he should have proven his claims subjecting to the existing methods just to give that level of confidence who trusts it like wim hof did.
rajadigopula··on Why Drugs That Work in Mice Don't Work in Humans
There is an alternate. To wake up from the ignorant direction the so called studies are taking the human kind to. And stop calling it science. Dr. B.M. Hedge suggested long ago that all the studies done on animals or humans are wrong and inefficient in so many fronts. His words - According to ayurveda, human body can be classified into around 200 types based on the K/P/H balance of a body. A medicine that works for one may be totally neutral for another. So, you read a paper that claims it got awesome results on a random blindfold study, the question Dr. Hedge asks is what type of the 200 human body types is it efficient? Apparently there is a body type that gives neutral or negative results (ignoring side effects). Talk about working it on animals first! (-ve downvotes welcome)
rajadigopula··on VPNSecure moves company from Australia to Hong Kong due to anti-encryption regs
Tried them once. Their windows app by default only connects at 128 bit encryption! Had a chat with their CS and they tried to convince 128 bit is enough. Stopped after the trial.
rajadigopula··on Ask HN: How are you getting through (and back from) burning out?
Try Cold showers . Working well for me. Also read - https://www.amazon.com/Mind-Full-Mindful-Wisdom-Monks/dp/935... (Thank me later.)
rajadigopula··on Machine Learning for .NET
Also worthy of mentioning - https://dotnet.github.io/infer/ . Infer.Net for Bayesian ML.
rajadigopula··on Ask HN: How do you manage UI/UX for your side projects?
https://elements.envato.com/ has a flat subscription with lot of resources you can use in commercial projects.
rajadigopula··on Ask HN: Best Command-Line Applications?
Git Standup - https://github.com/kamranahmedse/git-standup

Coinmon (Requires node) - https://github.com/bichenkk/coinmon

rajadigopula··on Ask HN: Are any of you IEEE members?
I am a member of ACM and BCS for few years. BCS used to have access to EBESCO host with few CS related databases where I used to read papers often, but the service is now discontinued.So, I feel BCS is not worthy of subscribing. ACM has Skillsoft and Safari online access which I use almost every week that has LIVE and on-demand training on almost any tech subject. Although access to ACM digital library is provided as a separate subscription which is available for members at extra cost ($99), it's up to the member to see if it benefits them to pay extra.I considered IEEE too, but it seems almost same as ACM interms of member benefits, but it might be more inclined towards other engineering disciplines than CS.
rajadigopula··on Show HN: Pushdata.io – Ultra simple time series data storage
Nice idea. Easy to plugin and use with IOT devices.
rajadigopula··on Ask HN: Dealing with a competitor who is scraping my content and ranking higher
Google is smart enough to penalize plagiarizing sites. If the content appeared on your site first, it is highly unlikely they get ranked higher. Work on your own SEO strategy.
rajadigopula··on How to Write Unmaintainable Code (2017)
A much novel way - use functional programming and create higher order functions and purely mathematical combinatoric functions and compose them in a complex way. A normal day developer must go to college again to even getting closer to understand it. This way the code is highly functional and there won't be a compromise in the quality of the output!
rajadigopula··on Products Are Functions
This thought format is a great way for developers to find good business solutions. Nice share.
rajadigopula··on Ask HN: Best way to introduce programming to a 5 year old?
Don't.

The best way is to let them expand their creativity and problem solving skills. Some decent puzzle books and toys will do.

Programming is just using some 'keyword' based programming languages to tell computer how to solve problems.

5-10 is a good age to expand the skills in so many fronts. Just don't limit your kids to learn some simple keywords/loop constructs etc.- which they can learn pretty quickly at any age later.

rajadigopula··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
AdGuard app on android also allows dnscrypt to route all the phone communications go through the dns crypt servers encrypted without rooting.
rajadigopula··on Improving DNS Privacy in Firefox
DNSCrypt is also a viable option. - https://dnscrypt.info/
rajadigopula··on Start colon cancer screening at 45, not 50, American Cancer Society urges
Or start including fermented foods like Sauerkraut at least a day in the meals and keep away from junk food. Prevention is always better than cure.
rajadigopula··on Shoe company tricks people into swiping Instagram ad with fake strand of hair
Now every PPC providers need to update their terms and conditions to include "No hair on banners."!
rajadigopula··on The Science of Addictive Junk Food (2013)
Wow.. Surprised to see no mention of "fiber"! The whole problem with processed foods is stripping off of essential dietary fiber. When you take fiber off of food, it digests quick rising blood sugar levels and feeling hungry quick - reason why they are called junk foods.

So many scientists suggesting to fix fiber in the diet to address the issue and yet no single mention of it in the entire article! No wonder Americans are misled.

https://youtu.be/EtnTuTX4L24

rajadigopula··on Net Neutrality will die, so let’s take the profit out of killing it
Makes sense. The only hope left is a "Hero ISP" who voluntarily decides to not participate in the prioritization.
rajadigopula··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
I see lot of downsides to that like for example in long run ISPs might end up offering their connection for free as Google/FB etc. are already providing their own ISP services (may be they started so because of this law!) => every large corporation move into ISP business offering their service for free instead of paying someone else!
rajadigopula··on FCC plan would give Internet providers power to choose the sites customers see
Can someone educate me why someone is proposing such laws in the first place? What's the motive? What are they going to gain by bringing the proposed changes?
rajadigopula··on SQL Operations Studio
SCM?! If it can, then I am sold.
rajadigopula··on Training exercise boosts brain power, Johns Hopkins researchers say
Yes. Search for dual-n-back in app store. I can go till 6 back without much effort. It gets tougher after.
rajadigopula··on Bitcoin has died 166 times, so far
Most analysts from traditional mindset making the mistake of analyzing bitcoin like they do stocks or fiat currency which can rely on a country's economy or political scenarios or a company's decisions to make profits. But, Bitcoin is like anything they have seen before or learnt in their college. Most volatility corresponds to news of it's survival at the moment and due to the reason the market is failing to agree with a fair value as no one knows it's future but is aware of the nobility of the technology and how it skipped the hands of any one controlling it by being decentralized. As the world keeps adopting to it the demand is getting increased. And there is still a lot of geographical terrain to cover.

When a traditional wall-street analyst sees a peak, he was trained to freak out and sense it as an extreme point of the crowd's greed. And shows off his training by telling the world that it's a bubble and it's going to burst, as the peak is occupied mostly by greedy investors who panic on losing their money and sells off double the speed they entered the trade. But this stands true when the value of the instrument surpasses the intrinsic value of the asset way too high. But with bitcoin no one knows hence majority investors still think it cheap and keep piling up.

rajadigopula··on My Instagram Hacker Changed My Life
I suspect social engineering. it's pretty common these days for everyone to give live sessions to connect with their followers and keep answering personal questions. Don't be surprised, when asked by the followers, most of them are ready to share all personal details from dob to mothers full name. I have noticed many times, the accounts got hacked right after a live session.
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