This research needs to be conducted in conjunction with the effects of prebiotics (ie certain fibrous foods). From what I understand, populating your gut with bacteria but failing to provide those bacteria with the right food is likely to fail.
I think you are expecting the term 'validity' to mean more than what it technically means to people in philosophy, which is that it 'adheres to the form of either Modus Ponens or Modus Tollens'. Colloquially it has come to mean more like what soundness means, which is valid but also with true premises.
Not sure, but I can use deduction: 1) If induction is valid, then it follows that we can use induction to reason about the world. 2) But we can't use it to reason about the world, 3) so it isn't valid. (Modus Tollens) This is valid, but not necessarily sound. Soundness implies that first two statements (premises) are also true. The second premise is clearly not true, because we use induction to reason all the time. So the conclusion #3, while it follows as a valid argument, cannot be said to be a 'sound conclusion.'
Agreed, homeostasis is something we observe in evolved organisms, not in planets whose inhabitant organisms became self aware and industrialized suddenly.
This is why as an armchair physicist I'm excited about the new neutrino observations and research going on, mainly because neutrinos aren't affected by gravitational lensing and other effects other particles encounter as they 'roll around' on space-time. Would it be possible to understand conceptually how other dimensions extend out of space time? I'm imagining a Y-axis perpendicular to the space-time fabric....
Test culture promotes lack of growth mindset as students tend to associate their capabilities with their scores from an early age. The earlier we start stratifying students by test scores the more we are likely to develop adults who believe in fixed ability and who don't want to challenge themselves. This is exacerbated when you start separating students into physically different schools based on test scores.
Knowledge workers, aka the creative class, are required to be on both schedules. They are both makers and managers. So if they are doing it 'right' they basically have two jobs.
My only complaint about my meatware computer is that it has a really bad ability to handle space complexity. With paper I can do OK with time complexity (although clockspeed is also an issue).
With all due respect lets all be wary of the 'cult of sacrifice' which often takes hold when someone dies to save someone else. Any time someone dies to save someone else, I suggest the appropriate reaction is that we should simply regret among ourselves that we didn't develop a technological solution to the problem before the problem presented itself, not engage in hero worship (please don't read this as diminishing what this person did, it was a sacrifice, and those kids owe it to him to live good lives now).
Policy idea that will never get passed: provide a tax credit for those who eat more efficiently using some ratio of CO2 emissions over calories consumed. Add some measure for food waste in there too.
To that I'd add if you buy make sure you are pretty sure you will be in the local market for work for 6-7 years, so even if the mortgage is below 30% and rent is more like 50% if you aren't confident you'll stay put for a while you still shouldn't buy. I think there is an irrational scramble to buy going on now too although I think it is not at the scale that caused the global financial crisis.
Having lived there and now living in a cheaper real estate market I am grateful for having lived there, where I could not afford a house. I am now no longer interested in owning residential real estate no matter where I go!
Having worked in wework, open floorplans with 'pods', and the cube farm setup, I prefer the farm. The problem is that most cubes don't actually cancel out noise too well so you are constantly overhearing things causing distraction. There really is no substitute for uninterrupted silence which is probably not achievable in any office where the company is not willing to invest in individual rooms for each person.
I would say the 'market rate' for the big tech cos cannot be applied to the financial analysis of hiring in startups because most startups have cash burn, and big tech is profitable. If you somehow negotiate a startup to pay you a google like salary you probably won't have much fun because you will be viewed as an even riskier hire than you were to begin with. There will be even more pressure to perform than there already was.
There are three subcategories of innovation: product, process, and financial innovation. So you could be a water startup if your water is not differentiated but you have either some new way of financing the production of water or some new process for producing said water.
Google returns results specifically showing which terms were missing if this were the case for me. This is useful for finding articles with intersections of concepts (assuming I got the terminology/jargon right) and knowing when those probably don't exist, so I like the feature.
I have recently removed the habit of 'relentless skill acquisition' in favor of meditation. If I had a spare 20 minutes I used to practice various skills that I wanted to become good at. While this is probably better than mindlessly ingesting social media or the internet, it has the unique problem of allowing one's identity to get caught up in how good at skill acquisition one can get, and also requires concentration, which is not quite as beneficial to the mind as meditation. The side benefit to this is that it amazingly reduces spending in support of hobbies, which was an ancillary budgetary concern. In short, if you stop visualizing yourself as 'good at something' and then needing to purchase the gear in support of that hobby, you save a lot of cash.
We need multifamily dwellings with the feature of no utilities bill because of local renewable energy on site. This would be awesome. The current vision of the future being sold to us seems to be single family homes with electric cars in the garage and solar cells on the roof. A horrible use of land and not really scalable to global population levels given the rise of cities.
I don't think the debate is over whether to allow Netflix to survive, Netflix will be OK and has a good bargaining position with regard to ISPs because they have content everyone wants. The more interesting question is are we creating a system that allows independent bloggers, vloggers, and other content creators to get discovered and be compensated either through ads or subscriptions or some other model.