Miķelis Putnieks ☕️

Engineer, Student, Learning and sharing about longevity, tech & health
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[Miķelis Putnieks ☕️ @MikelisPutnieks]

"your most important daily dashboard shouldn't be the news, your email, or even your business metrics, but your personal health metrics"

This. This is the single thing we (as per society) are grossly overlooking because of our inherent denial of death.

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[Balaji @balajis]

HOW AGING BIOMARKERS WORK

An aging biomarker is something that predicts how old you are on a molecular level.

You calibrate it by looking at the levels of markers in healthy people, and also those who are getting up in age. As people pass away, you calibrate the measure. For example, a person with a measure of X1 on marker Y passed away in N years, but a person with measure X2 lived more like N+5 years. Yes, it's a bit morbid, but it's just like actuarial tables[0].

Aging biomarkers aren't perfect. There's always the possibility of a biological Goodhart's law[1]. In that case you'd find a marker, and try to influence it directly by working out or eating right or taking supplements... but then subsequently realize that improving the marker doesn't causally improve your biological age.

Still, if you have enough different markers, it's probably difficult to move them all in the right direction without actually improving your health. At least, that's the theory.

The reason we should see more apps like this — like the next iteration of Fitbit or Apple Watch — is that your most important daily dashboard shouldn't be the news, your email, or even your business metrics, but your personal health metrics.

We're still underinvested socially and technologically in continuous diagnostics. We can and should do much more of this. Here's the app in the screenshot[2], and a recent review of longevity biomarkers[3].

[0]: https://t.co/iQuRmTSQqK
[1]: https://t.co/iTXHNw8roh
[2]: https://t.co/KBCjwSNtdb
[3]: https://t.co/IcDmglPojc

[Miķelis Putnieks ☕️ @MikelisPutnieks]

great! 🏔

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

Martian sand dunes covered in dry ice

Image from the Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter satellite.❄

[nature @Nature]

A scientist who successfully treated her own breast cancer by injecting the tumour with lab-grown viruses has sparked discussion about the ethics of self-experimentation https://t.co/wnjBX1zWjH

[Curiosity @CuriosityonX]

A recent image of Jupiter captured by Juno spacecraft.

[Jakub Janda 楊雅嚳 @_JakubJanda]

If Trump wins, the right response for Europe is not to cry publicly, but to take a deep breath and return with a wise plan for rebalancing in NATO to save it.

And boost European support for Ukraine like now.

[Miķelis Putnieks ☕️ @MikelisPutnieks]

😂😂😂

[Jamison Daniel @AntiquarianMuse]

Trump says there’s no empty seats and the cameraman goes rogue

Live fact checks at trump rallies now

[Paul Graham @paulg]

Putin wants Trump to win. There's no serious debate about that. Does Putin want America to be weak or strong? There's no serious debate about that either.

Why would you vote for the candidate Putin wants you to vote for?

[Roman Sheremeta 🇺🇸🇺🇦 @rshereme]

On this day in 2001 Ukraine eliminated its last nuclear delivery vehicle. 

Their reward was being invaded by russia, having cities bombed into dust while the West expresses "serious concerns" and rants about "escalation management."

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[Dylan O'Sullivan @DylanoA4]

This for everything

[Smug Doomposting Publishing House @Smug_editing]

("In the Hall of the Mountain King" begins to play very audibly)

[Simon Sarris @simonsarris]

I think some of the birthrate decline can be attributed to two forces happening everywhere: increasing complexity, and decreasing hardship. Life is too complex and too 'good.' I'll try to explain

[Neil Renic @NC_Renic]

Academic ironies

[Devon ☀️ @devonzuegel]

The Dutch flood protection system, Delta Works, is an epic feat of engineering

Not to mention, it looks straight out of a Frank Herbert book

Below, the 9km Eastern Scheldt Barrier stands guard against the North Sea’s storm surges & rising waters

[UNIFIL @UNIFIL_]

Statement:

This morning, UNIFIL’s Naqoura headquarters was affected by explosions for the second time in the last 48 hours.

[Information is Beautiful @infobeautiful]

One of humanity's greatest achievements
https://t.co/52zbPuNY2H

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

You can’t even tell in the first headline that Israel is the one bombing Lebanon. The contrast in headlines is unbelievable.

[Miķelis Putnieks ☕️ @MikelisPutnieks]

wow

[(((Tendar))) @Tendar]

You can see interceptions but many of those are appear to be intact missiles and not debris. Iran must have used an insane amount of missiles

[Erika  @ExploreCosmos_]

It is already known that the configuration of our Solar System, a single star with planets around it, is something that is not really a standard in our Galaxy.

A lot of Systems have two Stars, for example, a binary system, and there are even weirder ones with many stars. In Comparison, our System seems boring. 🥱

📹 @morn1415

[Jan Rosenow @janrosenow]

THIS IS A HUGE ACHIEVEMENT:

The EU now generates more electricity from wind and solar than from fossil fuels.

Graph from @NatBullard data @EmberClimate

[Artur Rehi @ArturRehi]

The FSB has allowed the largest data leak. It's not just about the electronic documents that were published by "Important Stories" and "Ukrainian Truth", but the Ukrainian side has also gotten its hands on the documentation of all Russian structures in the Kursk region.
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