This is so beautifully penned. I am an Indian and writing this from thousands of miles away and I am a die hard fan of Messi. I believe every word of this. Still remember 1986 when I first saw football world cup and got intoxicated by Maradona..Then Messi came carrying the same legacy of pure footbal brilliance.
@Ankittskedia@Yashodhara Yes agree..Huge edu loan is a burden and we dont want to put her through that..It should be merit based.She gets scholarship she will earn it.If not , it was not supposed to be.
@Yashodhara@Ankittskedia Sure.. As parents we are in constant debate on this - pros and cons..If results are good and she gets through a very good college , we are all fine.. Just that integated courses are making mechanical kids who knows how to answer through elimination but dont know the concepts..
@Yashodhara@Ankittskedia Yes.. My daughter wants to do something around computational biology . As parents of class 10 kid , we feel India is very biased towards either PCM or PCB witout any diectonality towards various other combinations..Hence , for such undergrd outside India provides better options.
I learnt a long time ago that there is a big difference between making a living and making a life. In the times to come, AI will get increasingly better at the skills that we've used to make a living. Our imperative will be to instead make lives. Not artificial lives. Or artificial lives. But our own lives and of those we love. As machines get better at answering, and solving what they are asked, our work is to get better at asking, at making, creating, and deciding which questions are worth a life, and refusing to outsource that.
Ice cream is actually one of the healthiest foods in existence, judging by a multitude of recent research articles.
There was a very highly publicized article that came out in 2018 out of Harvard.
It was for a student's dissertation, he found that ice cream was inversely associated with heart disease.
The nutrition department and the student himself tried repeatedly to "make the association go away" with different analysis, and checking his work.
But it didn't.
Not only was ice cream reported as beneficial,
it was actually one of the most beneficial dairy products analyzed.
With up to a 12% reduction in heart disease risk for having >2 servings of ice cream per week.
This wasn't the first study to find benefits of ice cream, and it also wasn't the last.
In a 2013 meta analysis of studies, they also found a protective effect of ice cream on diabetes.
You can see the bias against ice cream, as they don't even mention it in the main page.
That's despite ice cream showing one of the BEST results of any food studied for diabetes risk.
Another study from 2014 showed the same thing.
Again, this is a meta analysis, not just one study. They are pooling together all of the studies on ice cream and diabetes and still finding this.
The best result of any dairy food studied - here with a 32% reduction in diabetes risk.
The bias against ice cream is very strong in these studies.
A 2016 study once again showing the same benefit of ice cream for diabetes risk.
They say that the study above (Chen et al) showed "attenuated association" once diet collection information was stopped after hypertension or high cholesterol diagnosis.
They argue that this means that the association is invalid.
But not only did they not try to dismiss any other food studied like this, but this is just objectively not true (see above - there still was an association).
They also buried their results on ice cream in the supplementary tables so it didn't even make the paper.
That's probably because they didn't like the fact that once again, ice cream intake was inversely and strongly associated with diabetes risk.
So you really can't argue that there was some kind of agenda in favor of ice cream here.
More recent studies show the same thing.
A 2019 paper again showed a lower risk of diabetes with increased ice cream consumption.
And again, they put this information at the very end in the supplementary tables to try to hide it.
Finally, the most recent study in 2024 showed the STRONGEST association for ice cream's protective effect on diabetes.
There was a linear dose response.
That means more ice cream = less diabetes, straight up.
In fact, there was a 50% reduction in risk for having one serving per day.
Which, as you could guess by this point, was the greatest risk reduction of any dairy food studied.
Why would ice cream actually be good for you?
My main guess is the unique protective fats in dairy, that are abundant in ice cream.
◇ C15
◇ C17
◇ CLA
◇ TVA
◇ TPA
are fats almost exclusively in dairy fat, and all have unique effects.
◇ Mitochondrial enhancing
◇ Anti-inflammatory
◇ Anti-thrombotic
◇ Lipid lowering
◇ Fat burning
◇ Cancer preventing
I've covered these all at length in other content.
Of course, this is all observational.
This is simply seeing what people eat and then seeing what happens to them. It's not an experiment. That is definitely a limitation.
However, when you see the same association, consistently, across decades, regardless of analysis and confounding adjustment, you probably have something real.
This is not to say everyone should go and immediately pound gallons of ice cream for invincibility.
But... it does mean having reasonable amounts of ice cream is likely good for you.
@DhanValue How they do that? I am struggling to buy a decent flat in Mumbai ? In anyd event locality flats are 3.5 to 5 Cr and i am not talking of suburbs like Kandivaly, Goregaon etc.. Crazy actually.
For some, last week felt like the beginning of an AI bubble unwind.
For me, it looked like the end of the agentic infrastructure fireworks show.
The buildout is not over.
But the easy phase where every chip, memory, power, and infrastructure name worked is probably over.
Now the rotation shifts to the next layer of Jensen Huang’s five-layer cake:
Applications.
That is where ROI shows up.
That is where specialized AI models matter.
And that is why Eli Lilly may be one of the most important AI stories in the market.
GLP-1 cash flow.
Proprietary data.
LillyPod.
TuneLab
Specialized AI.
Peptides=API Keys
Human software.
This week’s video is about why this is rotation, not a bear market and why the next phase of AI may look very different from the last one.
Watch here:https://t.co/NX74tzApzP
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