Christopher Bittmann

[Belaaz News @TheBelaaz]

✡️ -- WATCH: BMG Rosh Yeshivah, Hagaon Reb Yisroel Neuman shlita, being Mesayem Shas at the Adirei Hatorah event.

A packed stadium full of over 25,000 Jews are heard shouting 'Amein Yehei Shmei Raba...'

[Belaaz News @TheBelaaz]

The energy of Kovod Hatorah

[Lorwen Harris Nagle, PhD @LORWEN108]

A Stanford neuroscientist warns high cortisol wrecks memory, enlarges your fear center, and make your brain feel broken.

If I wanted to fix it naturally, I'd do these 8 things every day:

1. Walk barefoot on grass for 5–7 minutes.

[Christopher Bittmann @ChrisBittmann]

@ShangguanJiewen 《颜渊》
君子敬而无失与人恭而有礼四海之内皆兄弟也君子何患乎无兄弟也

[Yasmine Khosrowshahi @yasminekho]

In 2024, Peter Thiel debated Jordan Peterson on one of the most misunderstood ideas in human history

No thinker challenges you like Thiel:

- Sacrifice is mostly irrational
- The crowd is almost always wrong
- Isaac had more faith than Abraham ever did

13 insights on sacrifice:

[Christopher Bittmann @ChrisBittmann]

@ShitpostRock2 Only Yiddish word is bobkes. Chutzpah and ganav are Hebrew words

[Christopher Bittmann @ChrisBittmann]

@EvelynAguado1 @AMERICAFIRST749 @Ltrs_Frm_Across @dwarkesh_sp And they both come from lacking the right institutions and having government promote these problems

[Mr Melancholy @chakravartiiin]

Percentage of increase in housing cost in different countries between 2005 - 2026

> China: 0% or less

> USA: 50%-120%

> India:100%-300%

"Housing is for living, not for speculation" Xi Jinping

[Lauren Chen @TheLaurenChen]

@Hedgeye Alternative headline: Housing in China the most affordable it's been in 20 years!

[Deedy @deedydas]

What do the smartest kids in the world do when they grow up?

I did the largest study of ~18,000 International Olympiad medalists (IMO, IOI and IPhO) over the last 25yrs, arguably the sharpest analytical minds of the world in high school, to see where they ended up and traced ~50% of them.

Founders of ~20 unicorns and ~7 decacorns and ~10 billionaires: OpenAI, Cursor, Stripe, Databricks, Perplexity, Ethereum, Cognition, Hyperliquid, Fireworks, Modal, Quora, Parallel, Cartesia, Wispr

Most kids went to MIT, a whopping 12% of them, followed by Cambridge (7%) and Sharif (3%)!

The career paths they chose (of those who graduated) were:
— 36% Academia (professors)
— 26% Other
— 22% in Software / Tech
— 12% in Quant / Finance
— 5% Founders!

The biggest employer was Google, by far, at 6%.
Others interesting tidbits were:
— 47 of them work at Jane Street (#3)
— 38 at OpenAI (#5)
— 15 at Anthropic
— 8 at Cognition
— 6 at Isomorphic Labs

Olympiaders were 1500x more likely to be billionaires and 4000x more likely to be unicorn founders than the average person!

[James Lynch @jameslynch32]

Men begin working harder years before marriage, if they believe marriage is on the horizon.

Even before marriage, Men are shown to work harder largely because of a "mouths-to-feed" effect of having families they want to provide for.

[PsikoBilim @Psikobilim_]

Yüksek zekâya sahip insanların nöronları daha uzun ve dallanmış bir yapıya sahiptir.
Yani, zeki beyinler daha fazla transistöre ve gelişmiş mimariye sahip bir mikro işlemci (CPU) gibidir. Ancak karmaşık ağ yapısı beyni hiçbir işlemciye benzemeyen bir süper makine yapar.

[ib @Indian_Bronson]

Hate to say it but this kind of thing underlines how China operates with a much more serious civilizational intent than the whole Western world in comparison.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

If you're incapable of thinking about causal identification, I think you should not read observational studies.

They'll rot your mind and kill your epistemics. You'll wake up one day thinking that eating apples torches your testicles and touching receipts makes you trans.

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

Oh boy, non-robust cross-sectional analyses on partially self-reported criteria where there's not even consistent dose-response, presented as causally informative

Let's see if this replicates with better measures, in a larger, publicly-available, American sample

No, it doesn't:

[PerformanceProtocol @PerformanceProt]

Neural conduction speed correlating with IQ is real but the modifiable variable nobody mentions is myelination…

Myelin is made primarily from cholesterol and fatty acids and requires adequate DHA, B vitamins and sleep for maintenance

Your IQ isnt fixed genetically, its partially determined by how well youre maintaining the myelin insulation

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

People with high IQ have faster and longer neurons.

[IRONRAW @FITNESS3M_]

@foundmyfitness It really points to the fact that our brains are incredibly sensitive to what we put in our bodies. That 10% increase sounds small, but if that’s the difference between staying sharp and losing your memories later in life, it’s a massive risk to take just for a quick snack.

[Gusten Danielsson @GustenDan]

@foundmyfitness Even when UPF and unprocessed diets were matched for calories, macros, sugar, sodium, and fiber, the UPF arm still led to +508 kcal/day and weight gain.

UPF is not food.

[Arch Delta Hound @ArchDeltaHound]

@foundmyfitness I read studies the other day about how Vitamin B fortification in UPF is correlated with obesity and insulin resistance. One showed that when it was implemented in the US and Saudi Arabia in the 1970s, obesity rates steadily climbed. Forget how they controlled for the vitamins.