If seed oils are bad for us, is eating seed as food also bad for us? 🙄

You can only “first principles think” your way to a certain level of competence without actual domain experience Solving hard problems in complex spaces (eg healthcare) requires a lot more expertise than 2024 society is willing to give folks working in healthcare credit for

One day… open.substack.com/pub/patientsus…

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So far, one of the most relevant arguments i read on the topic

I’m a sucker for mathematical oddities… 😅 love the remarkable qualities of this year; let’s hope it lives up to the expectations. Happy 2025!

Whether silicon valley or elsewhere, the current model of tech is shaping our reality… we all contribute to it through the new oil: “data” but have no control over how it is used.

I tested #ChatGPT therapy skills for several psych problems. Amazed how good it is- great free resource for people who cant afford/access human therapist. But scary wake up call for therapists (& our species). We're recklessly creating our replacements. nature.com/articles/s4159…

Here's the thing. We have **NO IDEA** how to pick good graduate students. I served on admission committees for 10+ years, and chaired a few, and what I learned is that all the spreadsheets of grades and test scores and recommendations and essays and publications and interview

I originally joined twitter for intellectual engagement in my interest areas. All i see now is musk’s posts and political echo chamber. I know some are tired of being bullied and left this platform. How is this being the voice of all views? The citizen journalism i see are

What will be the role of AI in oncology?

m.youtube.com/watch?v=ysZRaR…

Surprised so many responses to below post from: PATIENTS saying ChatGPT beats human therapy bec more 1)empathic 2)easy to talk to 3)informative 4)non-judgemental 5)unintrusive 6)trustworthy 7)affordable THERAPISTS saying they can't ever be replaced because AI lacks human touch.

ADHD, Bipolar Disorder, Major Depressive Disorder, and other psychiatric diagnoses are not the cause of your symptoms— they are simply labels to describe the symptoms you are having. It’s important to ask what’s causing them. newsletter.brainenergy.com/mental-health-…

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Congratulations on this detailed critique of a bad approach! (footnote: unit-randomized experiments can be found in Peirce in the 1880s; Fisher built statistical methods around randomized designs and campaigned for their use. See Stigler 1978 projecteuclid.org/journals/annal…)

Why is it so hard ppl to get this!

A lot of BS is being pushed to the scientific community in the form of dressing up inadequate design so that one can pretend to answer a question with inadequate data. Watch out.