I’m in my 30s and I could fill up hundreds of pages with all the crappy advice I’ve been given over my life by well-meaning people. Yes, some advice is helpful, and it is helpful to know when you’re stuck and need some new ideas, but I think in most cases advice is overrated. Try things out yourself, make your own mistakes, figure out what works for you, and what doesn’t. You will learn more from the struggle, and the lessons will be cemented much deeper. Don’t be afraid to fail.

Overall, I agree with the spirit of the post, but there is a benefit to let others fail and report results to you. If you manage to distill wisdom from their failures, you may be able to avoid those yourself and save yourself the trouble that could result.

The trick, naturally, is spotting bad advice and unreliable advice giver.

Just reading the headline, I said to myself “I bet it’s Avi Loeb.”

I gave up on WebMD and its ilk years ago. You get better information by just searching for med literature on google scholar, and you can read anything with sci-hub. Or ask a doctor friend to download a subject page from UpToDate.

Kaleidoscope is def (pun intended) the prettiest diff'ing tool, but it is very sluggish on 1000+ line files. In those cases I use CompareMerge.

What’s the mechanism of action?

From the original paper [1].

> Paradoxically, participants with a scientific background may perform worse at producing random sequences, thanks to a common belief among them that the occurrence of any string is as statistically likely as any other (a bias deriving from their knowledge of classical probability theory), which further justifies controlling for Field of education, simplified as humanities v. science.

[1] https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/jo...

How in the world did this get through peer review

> Finally, the variable Paranormal Belief was included as it has been related to RIG performance in previous studies.

Does it taste like bacon?

I had turbinate reduction and deviated septum repair surgery and it changed my life for the better. I sleep better, wake up more refreshed, and have more energy during the day.

It high school I got yelled at when I put the period before the final quote mark. In college I got yelled at when I did the opposite. Both seem completely arbitrary.

This series of articles proposes that environmental contaminants are the only possible cause of obesity that fits with all the available data. Can someone with a biology/medical background weigh in on whether this is legit? https://slimemoldtimemold.com/author/slimemoldtimemold/