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idkwhatiamdoing··on Adenosine on the common path of rapid antidepressant action: The coffee paradox
This hits home. For me stopping coffee (and caffeine) consumption was also one building block of taking care of my generalised anxiety disorder. I enjoyed the morning ritual, but it stopped with quitting drinking coffee. Maybe I should give decaf a shot, but I also miss just grabbing a coffee when out with friends (usually tea does not scratch the same itch and is not worth it when everyone else around you is enjoying a great smelling coffee). All I want to say is “Thanks for sharing” I guess. I was able to connect with what you said.
idkwhatiamdoing··on Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
ice overview. A personal struggle of mine as someone who is self taught (with a degree in statistics) and has a full time job that does not constantly require programming, I struggle with learning fundamentals alongside doing actual projects. If someone has any advice in this regard, it would be much welcome.
idkwhatiamdoing··on Beej's Guide to Learning Computer Science
Nice overview. A personal struggle of mine as someone who is self taught (with a degree in statistics) and has a full time job that does not constantly require programming, I struggle with learning fundamentals alongside doing actual projects. If someone has any advice in this regard, it would be much welcome.
idkwhatiamdoing··on To what extent is science a strong-link problem?
Not the person you ask, but I have to think about this one (PNAS is pretty much a Science/Nature level journal impact wise). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.2202224119
idkwhatiamdoing··on East Germany invented 'unbreakable' drinking glasses
This kickstarter worked together with some researchers to bring back to live exactly that kind of glass! Today I actually received the link to place my order from the pledge https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/paulkupfer/ultraglass-s...
idkwhatiamdoing··on Executive Order on Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence
Probably Geoffrey Hinton and Yoshua Benigo who have had major contributions to the field of A.I. in their scientific careers.
idkwhatiamdoing··on Evaluation of TikTok vs. Instagram Reels
I think this is a nice and interesting article, but as far as I understood they showed the participants where the videos was from. It makes the result hard to evaluate. You take a group of participants which are likely to prefer TikTok already and think of Reels as a meme and then you say "these are TikToks, these are Reels, which do you prefer?". Of course these people will probably like TikTok way more.

In no way I want to defend Reels (in fact I don't consume neither TikTok nor Reels), but a blind test would have been really really important here.