Daniel A.

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[Daniel A. @Legalangle5]

@SLSingh The Simpons; awesome awesome read! And was this left in as a hidden attention test ;) [email protected]

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@Spinaaaaa17 How well asbestos protects... 🤪

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@LucuKaliKali Strong joint, but if this is part of a drone frame then the for screws, metal mesh and putty are going to add weight to just one side.

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@theliverdoc Appearing for entrance exams is like standing in a ration line trying to prove your BPL card is yellower than the others'.

India doesn't need to, rather, doesn't want to, subsidize medical education anymore.

Hardworking "aspirants" and their families should get the hint, na.

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@elonmusk AI is supersmart and can do all the work we do: agreed. But what runs society is a not so smart worker who buys clothes, food, & housing, often beyond his salary. That is what pays for the "work," even AI research. If AI obsoletes him, who will all the "work" be needed for. 🤔

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@bezgin4 Welcome to perforated apples(?)
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@TheEXECUTlONER_ Shut the tap! 👺

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@seriousfunnyguy Bus driver following too closely behind the truck created a blindspot for himself (front right). Got to know there was a bullock cart only after hitting it.

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@Trump_Fact_News ...and the pilots took the mince home.

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India's always had some really good scientists! Kudos, Dr. Malhotra! 🫡

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

India ran the most important cardiovascular study of the 20th century by accident, and then immediately forgot about it.

In 1967, Dr. S.L. Malhotra published a study in the British Heart Journal examining heart disease rates among 1.5 million Indian railway employees. The population was extraordinarily useful for research purposes: same employer, same healthcare access, comparable income and working conditions, spread across the entire country.

The only meaningful variable was geography. Which meant diet.

North Indian railway workers: Punjab, Rajasthan, UP, ate a diet built around ghee and dairy fat. They consumed up to 19 times more fat than their southern counterparts. The fat was primarily saturated: clarified butter, milk fat, the short-chain saturated fatty acids that Ancel Keys had recently been telling the Western world were arterial death.

South Indian railway workers ate a diet based on rice, sambar, and seed oils: groundnut oil and sesame oil, primarily. They ate considerably less fat overall. By the standards of dietary advice being formulated in the 1960s, they should have been the healthy ones.

Heart disease mortality in South India: 135 per 100,000.

Heart disease mortality in North India: 20 per 100,000.
Seven times higher in the population eating seed oils.

Among railway sweepers specifically, the lowest-paid, most physically active workers, the gap was even wider. Heart disease was fifteen times more common in the South Indian sweeper population than in the North Indian sweeper population.

Malhotra controlled for everything he could reach: smoking, where Northerners actually smoked more. Activity levels, where the relationship was inconsistent. Socioeconomic status, where executives died more often than sweepers regardless of region. He found no variable that explained the gap except the type of fat in the diet.

He published the data. In a peer-reviewed journal. In 1967.

The study was cited periodically, acknowledged as methodologically interesting, and then set aside.

The decade in which Malhotra published was the decade in which Ancel Keys's fat hypothesis was being converted into policy. The American Heart Association was issuing guidance recommending polyunsaturated vegetable oils as replacements for saturated animal fats. The food industry was producing seed oils at industrial scale. The infrastructure of seed oil promotion was being built, expensively and with great institutional momentum.

A study showing that populations eating animal fat had a fraction of the heart disease of populations eating seed oils was not, in that context, a study that anyone particularly wanted to follow up.

Nobody followed up.

Almost sixty years later, the finding stands unrefuted in the literature.

It is not in the dietary guidelines.

[Daniel A. @Legalangle5]

@GlobalIJournal Prof Jiang is just too modest when it comes to China's gains. 😁

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@devinamehra didn't know this part...and, so true overall... 😆🫡

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The Human Brain
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[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this project should mass-humble every AI lab on the planet.

1 cubic millimeter. One-millionth of a human brain. Harvard and Google spent 10 years mapping it. The imaging alone took 326 days. They sliced the tissue into 5,000 wafers each 30 nanometers thick, ran them through a $6 million electron microscope, then needed Google’s ML models to stitch the 3D reconstruction because no human team could process the output.

The result: 57,000 cells, 150 million synapses, 230 millimeters of blood vessels, compressed into 1.4 petabytes of raw data. For context, 1.4 petabytes is roughly 1.4 million gigabytes. From a speck smaller than a grain of rice.

Now scale that. The full human brain is one million times larger. Mapping the whole thing at this resolution would produce approximately 1.4 zettabytes of data. That’s roughly equal to all the data generated on Earth in a single year. The storage alone would cost an estimated $50 billion and require a 140-acre data center, which would make it the largest on the planet.

And they found things textbooks don’t contain. One neuron had over 5,000 connection points. Some axons had coiled themselves into tight whorls for completely unknown reasons. Pairs of cell clusters grew in mirror images of each other. Jeff Lichtman, the Harvard lead, said there’s “a chasm between what we already know and what we need to know.”

This is why the next step isn’t a human brain. It’s a mouse hippocampus, 10 cubic millimeters, over the next five years. Because even a mouse brain is 1,000x larger than what they just mapped, and the full mouse connectome is the proof of concept before anyone attempts the human one.

We’re building AI systems that loosely mimic neural networks while still unable to fully read the wiring diagram of a single cubic millimeter of the thing we’re trying to imitate. The original is 1.4 petabytes per millionth of its volume. Every AI model on Earth fits in a fraction of that.

The brain runs on 20 watts and fits in your skull. The data center required to merely describe one-millionth of it would span 140 acres.

[Steppe Shaman @SteppeShaman]

Since Punch has renewed global empathy for baby monkeys:

Indonesia has an industry where people pay to watch baby monkeys get tortured online. Not even tortured to dance or perform. But painfully tortured to death out of sadism.

The footage too gruesome to show. Indonesians pay millions each year to watch baby monkeys drown or be cut open alive online. Some have their hands tied with ants poured on their eyes.

The Indonesian government does not enforce any laws against these torturers. This is despite the macaques monkeys being protected animals under the CITES convention.

Like Punch, all the tortured monkeys are young macaques.

I don't usually post this stuff, I usually post about history and culture. I like showing people the beautiful parts of our world. But I don't feel like I will have another chance to let people know about this, so I will post this knowing that I have a clean conscience.

I hope an effort can be made to put pressure on the Indonesian government and people to enforce CITES and international law protecting endangered animals.

[Daniel A. @Legalangle5]

@realhyderabad86 Always thought the same. If builders have to put up billboards, tv ads, cinema ads, online ads to sell new flats, how are these buyers going to sell their old ones.

[Boring_Business @BoringBiz_]

This 40 minute lecture from Peter Thiel at Stanford will teach you more about business competition than a 2 year MBA program

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@GoldenAnand_001 Why were you watching them. Did you have nothing better to do. Good, they didn't care about you.

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@jsuryareddy Invited his own death by speeding, attempting to cross before a heavy vehicle and then second guessing himself and braking hard. Poor truck driver tried to save him by cutting a sharp left and that caused the container to tip off and go where the truck was going - into the car.

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Life Well Lived...
RIP, Scott Adams ♥️🙏

[Scott Adams @ScottAdamsSays]

A Final Message From Scott Adams

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@drShaileshSingh LDL at 200 is better than brain fat dissolving blackout-causing statins in your blood. 👀