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The only thing I ever knew about k-space was its use in MRI, where there's a Fourier transform of image measurements. And why the 2π factor. (glad the AI gave such a straightforward answer to that) The rest of it may as well be spaniels howling in Urdu. (though I dimly grasped the use of Fourier analysis when I volunteered my PC years ago for a SETI crowd computing project that analyzed signals from...somewhere)

I blame Jim Carrey. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Number_23 And my condolences to anyone who watched the US series "Lost" and wandered into a morass of 108.

In humans I wonder if caffeine has served, among other things, to counteract the sluggish feeling that can follow breakfast. When I greatly reduced caffeine ( due to an inner ear issue ), I really noticed post-BF sluggishness. I eventually joined those who skip breakfast, not eating until after 10am. This created a microfast each day, around 16-18 hours, and improved several health markers for me. But really, I think Dostoevsky had it right: "Man is the animal who can get used to anything."

Pickled beets are an essential of civilized life, agree. I'll be interested to learn how the fermented form compares. Lactobacillus casei is one that naturally appears and works well. It's used with ginseng, too. And congratulations to you and the Archbishop of Canterbury, on being primates.

Seems like we are, in evolutionary terms where hundreds or thousands of generations are sometimes needed to implement systemic physiological changes, only starting to shift from Homo nomadicus (with shifting and sometimes sporadic nutrient supply) to Homo urbanus (with complex networks of mass food production and a steady grain-dominant diet). Lactose tolerance was managed in relatively few generations thanks to the LP mutation, which was a SNP, and its great adaptive value for pastoralism (herder agriculture). But a system retooling, where we would all manage a very non-HG diet well, e.g. lots of grain without the woes of insulin resistance and metabolic syndrome, would be much harder given that these woes don't much block reproductive success and are amenable to cultural management (shifting to higher fiber, pharma intervention in developed nations, Paleo diets, etc.) And meal frequency is another highly adjustable cultural factor and some such adjustments are being shown to ameliorate metabolic syndrome, e.g. the sixteen hours between dinner and breakfast regimen that's becoming more popular. Pretty much all the research I've seen points to small-scale fasting as something we are built for and benefit from. OldChem has really taken that short-fast ball and run with it. Like Ramadan, year-round! 😄

Could you tell my cats that? But seriously, that probably underscores the effect of domestication and a steady food supply. HG bands sometimes had to gorge, to eat a food before something else did. Not because it was optimal digestively. Moving into temperate zones might have been one change that brought the need to store foods for winter, and then ration that out as meals.

True, though I'm still a bit puzzled, given that milk used in infant formulae has to be pasteurized. So I wouldn't think there would be much of a starter colony going into the dehydrator, let alone afterward. It could slip in from somewhere else, maybe with an additive. Will be disturbing if this does turn out to be the source of the botulism. Infant food companies usually don't feck around when it comes to sterilization. Given the rudimentary immune system, the liability issues are massive.

IIRC Loeb has atacked Gizmodo as a front for the hydroxyl radical Left. They have a propaganda broadcast, which you can find at 1.665 and 1.667 GHz. Derek Muller is also good, with an emphasis on fixing popular misconceptions about science, as well as explaining the difficult concepts. One of the few YouTube channels I will click on, or recommend, is his Veritasium channel. Haven't checked to see if he's done anything on Loeb's claims, but I expect he will.

The legacy papers, including WaPo, have been attacking Mamdani and as the Columbia Journalism Review put it, generally acting like scared suburbanites.... "purses clutched tight to their sides, their hands grasping pepper spray as they descend into the threatening depths of the Times Square subway station, vigilant to the possibility of an attack from a homeless person. These types of visitors, their view of the city shaped by too many urban crime dramas, are common. We welcome them. We do our best to soothe their fears. We even try to gently persuade them to go to Jackson Heights and try some Indian food. But we do not let them tell us how to run our city. " https://www.cjr.org/analysis/legacy-papers-have-been-weird-and-hostile-toward-zohran-mamdani.php The Post resorted to childish epithets in their Saturday attack on the mayor-elect, and I realized it was finally time to pull the plug on my subscription. As the writer notes, the Post is "a paper that has been the victim of an explicit ideological purge this year, in which owner Jeff Bezos made clear that the paper’s editorial stance will now reflect his own business interests."

Indeed. And doesn't botulinum require moisture? Last I checked, baby formulae like ByHeart's are dry powders.

Great critique. I hadn't known about his "9° from the Wow signal" claim, but that alone should unmask him and show the tinfoil. Invoking an instrument glitch from the seventies is almost desperate in its crackpottery. I liked the planetary science adage: “Comets are like cats: they have tails, and they do precisely what they want." And as Wright repeatedly stresses, comets are weird - also like cats. I do wonder why the awkward units, as when determining the comet's acceleration. "the actual precision is more like 10-7 AU/day2..." I would think km/day2 wouid serve, BHWDIK.

The correlation certainly needs a little more probing. Most of the reported cases were in infants not using ByHeart. And I can't find any record of powdered formulas ever containing botulinum. I'd be more concerned about the organic feed the cows are getting. Ever since Robert Bilott broke the PFAS story around the turn of the century, I've heard some horror stories about organic farms using sewage sludge that was contaminated heavily with some kind of PFAS. I hope that this has gotten rarer since all the big penalties and settlements with DuPont, 3M, Saint Gobain, et al. and attendant phaseouts, but there are still shorter chain PFAS out there that haven't gotten regulated or banned. Even TFA, the ultrashort chain stuff, has several kinds of nasty going.

Sounds like thumbnail GIFs that emit sounds. Or maybe not. Please give a plain language description of what you're talking about. Who are you talking to? This doesn't match anyone's profile that is participating in this thread so far.

Wouldn't philosophy just try to analyze the core concepts of causality and address any special problems about feedback? I would think they just try to see that the definitions of fb are a good fit with the particular discipline. An organism interacting with its environment, or a cell interacting with a bodily system, or whatever functional level, would use both positive and negative fb -- often it's about slowing down or accelerating a process, as needed. Fb is when outputs of a system are routed back as inputs as part of a causal chain that loops. An example would be insulin oscillations. I think the challenges are there for biologists but I don't see much call for a philosopher. Causal chains can loop and it doesn't seem to cause any philosophical crisis AFAICT. Not in biology, anyway, or other fields where the thermodynamic (entropic) arrow is fairly clearly defined. Fundamental physics... maybe a little trickier.

My TIL is, boringly, the same. Due to your posting this. The novel 11/22/63 is, as one might guess, stuffed with Jonbar hinges. Thank Ray Bradbury for the term. In "A Sound of Thunder" the time travel tourist in the Mesozoic disobeys instructions, steps off the levitating path and crushes a butterfly. Huge changes, on their return.

You know Mamdani is from a liberal family of Indian descent, his mother Hindu and an award-winning filmmaker, and his upbringing mostly in the Bronx, right? So help me understand what this meme is about?

Well finally I understand the phrase "all hands on deck." Apparently we exist in our hands and this is some kind of [insert gibberish here] which shows that I can't also exist in my left buttock. This resulted in the creepy feeling a stranger was scratching my butt this morning, back when I only existed there and hadn't transferred my existence to my hands yet.

Or it means you have a nervous system.

I was a little late for an appointment this morning, so I took Main Street at around 50 mph, swigging from my whiskey jug, and shooting pigeons and squirrels with my AR-15 as I drove. Given the lack of time, I took the bags of recycling I was going to drop off and pitched them out the window, and the fifteen cans of old paint for the hazardous waste facility along with them. I hope they didn't burst open when they hit the street... but they probably did. Oh well, that keeps the street cleaners employed, right? So I'm practically a philanthropist. Got home later, realized I'd forgotten the 55 gallon drum of a waste oil, but I didn't want to go back and then have to endure eating reheated food, so I just poured it all down the storm drain. I mean, who can keep up with every little nitpicky thing the nanny state forces on us, 'miright? Rules are for suckers and wimps! FREEDOM! Aw crap, I forgot to pick up cat food. OK, they can get along on Gatorade and corn flakes for one damn day. What am I, a f--ing cat butler?

"During the 6 days of creation God placed the Earth inside a black hole to slow down time so the light from distant stars had time to reach us." Given the site's satirical jabs at fundamentalism, anti-science, pseudoscience, authoritarianism, and so on, and it being AFAIK on a US platform, do you think the current regime could have gone after it? I know they had to settle on some defamation suit earlier this year, which coukd have impacted them budgetarily. Also, given the site's role in a global conspiracy to kidnap children and brainwash them with pizza into Progressivism...just sayin'. ETA: the lawsuits might fall into the category of SLAPP suits. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strategic_lawsuit_against_public_participation

Just remember, whatever you do, don't cross the proton streams! I tried to float "death penalty for littering" with my city council, but got nowhere. Nobody there values pragnatism. Or, IMHO, proportionality.

I've used acetone, no problems. Scrape first, then let acetone soak in for a few minutes.

Drooling already! I'll be interested to see their take on downward causation and the various challenge to reductionism. I'm also a fan of Sean Carroll's approach and style. Hope to get this read and back to this tomorrow. Wonder what Rovelli would make of this, with his relational interpretation of QM. His ontology, iirc, rejects any single level reductive reality. It's all "perspectival."

The bot was definitely gherkin us around.