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With that investigative spirit, Halsted had embarked on experiments with cocaine—then touted as a wonder drug—with a group of colleagues in 1884. Submitting themselves as test subjects, they explored the drug's pain-numbing abilities by injecting it into their peripheral nerves. In doing so, they would advance the concept of local anesthetic, a... See more
Can MDMA-AT Be Saved? Part II
Yancey Strickler’s Nine Creative Meditations
To me or to the mean - Focus on what makes your work strange or unique rather than trying to fit in with what everyone else is doing.
You are your audience - Create work that satisfies your own desires and interests rather than trying to please an imagined mass audience.
Small is more rewarding than big -
Søren Kierkegaard: “To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.”
Taking the Leap
A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo , to create ex nihilo . In order to make room for one's own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we... See more
John Ganz • Reading, Watching 11.10.24
Noble intentions and lofty rhetoric about justice and equality are not enough. The kinds of policies and interventions that benefit people often sound bad. Those that hurt people often sound good.
Dan Williams • On becoming less left-wing (Part 1)
Frequentist inference begins by assuming a null hypothesis to be true before data are collected (eg, that there is no effect of a particular treatment on survival). Investigators then collect data, analyze them, and ask, “How surprising is my result if there is actually no effect of the treatment on survival?” The data would be surprising if there... See more
Understanding the Differences Between Bayesian and Frequentist ...
In information theory, entropy measures the average unpredictability of characters in a string, expressed in bits per character. The formula to calculate entropy is straightforward: for each unique character, multiply its probability by its surprisal4, then sum this product across all characters.
Regex is (almost) all you need
- Simple and explicit control flow : Favor straightforward control structures over complex logic. Simple control flow makes code easier to understand and reduces the risk of bugs. Avoid recursion if possible to keep execution bounded and predictable, preventing stack overflows and uncontrolled resource use.
Tiger Style
Bad code gives you feedback, perfect code doesn’t. Err on the side of writing bad code
It’s really easy to write terrible code. But it’s also really easy to write code that follows absolutely every best practice, which has been unit, integration, fuzz, and mutation-tested for good measure – your startup will just run out of money before you finish.... See more
It’s really easy to write terrible code. But it’s also really easy to write code that follows absolutely every best practice, which has been unit, integration, fuzz, and mutation-tested for good measure – your startup will just run out of money before you finish.... See more