Potential for what?
It is only possible to measure fitness for a specific task. Often a trait that would help in one situation will hinder in another.
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It is only possible to measure fitness for a specific task. Often a trait that would help in one situation will hinder in another.
I am talking about long term, you are talking about 10 weeks. Yes, you can calculate calories in vs calories out. No, you cannot extrapolate that to determine if Professor Mark Haub will be alive on that diet in 3 years. What is the metabolism of dead?
For his own health I am glad that he didn't continue the diet much longer. There are a number of confounding variables here that the article forgot to mention, which most likely played a larger part in his weight loss than any calorie counting:
Stress. Stress can cause sudden weight loss. This weight will come right back if you give your body any time to catch up and yet the effect is significant enough to provide "evidence" for the craziest of dieting fads. Eating debbie cakes for 3 meals a day is going to put some serious stress on your body.
Metabolism is not constant. Michael Phelps eats more for breakfast than I do in a week, and yet he is in much better shape. The scary thing about junk food is not so much the empty calories, but more how it affects your metabolism in the long term. If you draw out this sort of a diet for 2 or 3 years, then I would expect that not only could you give yourself diabetes, but also you will start craving more and needing less. That is when weight gain will start to become a serious problem.
Example: Searching for "haskell" will give you videos about people named haskell as well as the programming language. After adding a few example videos to your list, you will get only results related to the programming language. The idea is to start to combat the incredible amount of noise in search results: believe it or not, not everyone enjoys rick rolls and gophers.
His advice was that "you always focus on supply first... then you shift to demand." Here that would mean to try to grab producers before promoters.
The idea is that producers are more willing to list their movies on your site, no harm done, but promoters won't be interested unless you have some movies for them to choose from.
I am by no means representative of the Hacker News community, but I would guess that other people would say something similar.
"Coolest" algo I've ever developed would have to be parser combinators. Coolest graph algorithm: finding maximal cliques and independent sets + approximation algorithms for these.
I remember that integers are usually defined in terms of successors: Succ 1 = 2. But this doesn't help for real numbers because they can't really be enumerated?