I just turned 33 and thought:
What are some lessons I keep coming back to?
What would I have told my younger self?
Each of this could take an entire post to unfold and I don't expect them all to make sense to you. To some extent these say more about me than they say about the rest of the world. Don't take them as advice to follow, but meditating on their truth may be useful to you.
Turns out it’s possible to talk to people for reasons other than learning new facts about the world. Some call this ‘vibing’…
One of the reasons I like living in the Bay Area are the social occasions one rarely finds anywhere else. One such recent one I attended was Slutcon (more on the event here). When I first saw the event announcement showing up on twitter, I bought tickets without thinking it twice. A heuristic I live by is living as if you're the main character in some novel and do what would go along with the overarching story while being fun to read. And in this case the plot demanded that I go.
I didn't feel like writing …
Two scientists may look at the same data and draw different conclusions. Faced with a problem to solve they may see different solutions as the obvious way to go. The cause of this is scientific taste: one's crystalized collection of priors about how the slice of nature of interest works.
I like to think of taste as tinted glasses: you can look at a phenomenon through different lenses and notice different things with each. These views are not to be thought of as right or wrong in isolation. Rather, they may …
What is aging and how to measure it is an everpresent question in the field of aging research. Given the complexity of biology many give up on the task, proclaiming that "we" (either the field or humanity) don't understand aging. I don't. To me, what aging is is clear enough, and we can understand it as a fractal and emergent phenomenon within a system: there's aging of DNA, aging of cells, aging of organs, aging of organisms.
To understand aging and measure it we have to be reasonably acquainted…
Lithium orotate seems to help with Alzheimer's
Electronics components have gotten very very cheap in the past few decades
On LLM adoption from Zvi Mowshowitz
On the wild stories where someone that gets an organ transplant sometimes experience personality changes, and single cell learning.
HIV drugs as potential anti-aging drugs
Upcoming book about industrial efficiency
Alternative to LASIK coming?
A first person report of participating in a Phase 1 clinical trial
In defense of the Amyloid hypothesis (See pr…
Good post on what the meaning of heritability.
Only a crazy person should do any given job
A while back I noted that everything sleeps. Now here some recent work on the why.
Memory in cells
As I noted a while back, inflammaging is not an intrinsic feature of aging; rather it is a byproduct of industrialized lifestyles and most likely just obesity (which increases with age in industrialized countries)
On China's shipbuilding industry
SSC reviews Steven Byrne's work on AI
Against outsourcing, for vertical in…