Dave Tapson

Code monkey. Systems Analyst. Stock wrangler. Systematic trading systems.

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@elonmusk C. Is there really anything else?

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@SBakerMD Haha - reading this as a South African immigrant to NZ. Sounds 💯%...

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@ICannot_Enough "nobody alive" You think?!

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@jonmcneill @WalterIsaacson Can't get it in NZ Kindle yet? We have to go via Aus Amazon, seems to not be available?

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@claudeai To err is human. To really fuck it up, you need a computer...

This is going to get interesting.

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@TomDNaughton Did they explain why people respond?

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@DrMcFillin Says someone who doesn't have ADHD, and hasn't had the experience of unmedicated/medicated states.

Gonna start lecturing women on periods now Roger, because you know better?

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@DeborahMeaden It's political speak for "we've got nothing to offer. How do we say so, causing ourselves the least humiliation?"

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@JohnSimpsonNews @keanerthanever1 Not sure it's up to X (or any SM company) to be trying to exclude fuckwits (if that's what you are implying they should do) but what you could do is what you do in real life and that is exclude them from your life. The block button is there for a reason.

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I had a Pink Floyd cassette tape, bought in South Africa in the early 80's, that had Wish You Were Here on one side and Animals on the other. I seem to remember it was called "The other side of the wall" but I've never managed to track it down again - but I played that on repeat for years.

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@EdwardJDavey Tell me you are a clown without telling me you are a clown...

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@katrosenfield "Ah, beer. The cause of, and solution to all of the world's problems" Simpson, H.

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@mattwridley Indigenous - I wonder if that has a meaning 🤔

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@dbromo @OnDisasters Short runway, full tanks.

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@stustin @ChuckSherwood1 @doctorow Yeah, I'm not so sure about that.

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@ketansingh279 @elonmusk @AmandaAskell @WSJ You don't have kids, do you?

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@DrPhilMaffetone was so far ahead of the curve. I remember reading his book at the time and it was wild compared to the then current thinking.

Still remember PM's best measure of weight loss: your trend in belt size.

And that an establishment figure like Noakes was endorsing these wild ideas...

[Tim Noakes @ProfTimNoakes]

Thanks so much for your insightful, carefully thought out and important inputs, Steve @stevemagness. @AKoutnik has provided a set of brilliant answers.
For my part I'd like to confirm that our review https://t.co/f8AttNwZXw
is not about high carbs versus high fat.
What is ultimately revolutionary about the review is its identification, perhaps for the first time in modern biology (not entirely sure), that there are two glucose pools in the body; they are independently regulated and only one, the small glucose pool in the liver and bloodstream, has really watertight evidence that it influences human exercise performance. There is also a clearly established (central brain) mechanism explaining this effect. In contrast we could find little good evidence that the large glucose pool (muscle glycogen) influences human exercise performance. Nor could we find a reasonably explanation for how this effect supposedly works. For if muscles have a reduced capacity to produce ATP when muscle glycogen stores are depleted (so they must use the reportedly less-good fuel, fat), then the outcome has to be muscle rigor, not muscle fatigue. I've been making that latter point since the 1980s.
My prediction is that as the general public including athletes begins to grasp this concept of 2 separately regulated glucose pools in the body, they will begin to ask some interesting questions.
Such as:
Why must I must repeatedly challenge the glucose regulatory processes in the small glucose pool in order to fill the large glucose pool, if the large glucose pool plays little or no part in human exercise performance?
What are the long term consequences of doing this on a daily basis? Will it put me at increased risk of developing insulin resistance/pre-diabetes/type 2 diabetes in the long term? Even one of the greatest ultramarathon runners of all time, could not escape this fate despite logging more than 200 000 miles in his athletic career.
[Quote: Don Ritchie in The Stubborn Scotsman: "In 1996 I developed Type Two Diabetes, which I believe was caused by the high carbohydrate diet, which fuelled my training for over three decades. I should have planned my diet more carefully to avoid the disease, with potentially serious complications". (p.342). https://t.co/q76Y3QEQM4. Ritchie subsequently died from this disease at age 74]
Why must I repeatedly fill my large glucose pool if this causes higher blood insulin concentrations which will reduce my capacity to burn fat during prolonged exercise?
Why must I ingest 90-120g of carbohydrate every hour when running in races lasting more than six hours when the intensity at which I am running should allow almost all the energy to come from fat? Must I do this because such high rates of carbohydrate ingestion at such relatively low exercise intensities is causing havoc with my ability to burn fat?
How easy is it for me to control my weight and avoid the development of visceral obesity if I continue to have higher blood insulin concentrations as a result of always keeping my large glucose pool filled?
My prediction is that in the next five years runners will increasingly ask these questions. Some (perhaps a majority) may well come to the conclusion that it is probably safer for their long term health if they ingest much less carbohydrate before and during exercise.
@PhilipPrins11 @theplews1 @ProfKarimKhan @BenBikmanPhD @PaulBLaursen @sweatscience @LoreofRunning1 @CarynZinn @lowcarbGP @zoeharcombe @bigfatsurprise @davidludwigmd

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@michelleefang Me please

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@herdyshepherd1 It's just a tool like all your other tools.