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kubami commented on As a developer, my most important tools are a pen and a notebook hamatti.org/posts/as-a-de... · Posted by u/ingve

bufferoverflow · 3 months ago

I don't understand the pen/physical notebook thing. It's slow to write, insanely slow to search what you've written, almost impossible to copy or share.

kubami · 3 months ago

In the context of this post it's not about preserving or sharing the thoughts. Writing, in this case, is a "thinking tool". Forcing yourself to materialise the thoughts as actual, written, text helps form clear ideas.

kubami commented on Reflections on Palantir nabeelqu.substack.com/p/r... · Posted by u/freditup

nodesocket · a year ago

HN has always lacked economic and stock market knowledge and instincts generally speaking. Most comments tend to say it’s rigged, evil capitalist, etc. Guessing because hackers generally tend to swing far left and socialist though weird as a lot of founder and entrepreneurs are active on HN as well.

There is a long tradition of show HN were the comments poo poo startups and ideas which end up being huge and the opposite is also true with praise and admiration of failures.

kubami · a year ago

Are there any good forums where people do have good market knowledge and share it?

kubami commented on IBM Granite: A Family of Open Foundation Models for Code Intelligence github.com/ibm-granite/gr... · Posted by u/lukhas

morgante · a year ago

That's a pretty outdated phrase, even in enterprise.

kubami · a year ago

By no means it is an outdated phrase. Ask any startup sales person!

kubami commented on Blueprint health protocol protocol.bryanjohnson.com... · Posted by u/L_226

d_silin · 2 years ago

Even if it does 100% work as advertised, the amount of details to follow in the protocol is insane. Half of the things there are probably placebo, the other half can be condensed into the less complicated solution.

kubami · 2 years ago

But isn't this one of the points of all this. Figuring out which thnigs work and which don't? Which can be thrown out and which can be "condensed"?

kubami commented on Blueprint health protocol protocol.bryanjohnson.com... · Posted by u/L_226

maeln · 2 years ago

I kind of fail to see how would this be useful for anyone but him. The fact that he has a team working with him to make him the most healthy human possible is cool and all, but there is absolutely 0 guarantee that what works for him would work for any one else. Our bodies can be surprisingly different, this is why it can be surprisingly hard to draw any conclusion from research involving a few hundreds tests subject. As an example, a lot of diets are still contentious and the subject of many debate.

So with one data point ... For all we know, his Blueprint might be over-optimize for his own body and might be extremely detrimental to most people.

Although, on a side note, seeing how my grand parent fared towards the end of their life, I did realize that I do not fear death or aging, I fear the slow withering where you get more and more diminished. So I get where this idea is coming from

kubami · 2 years ago

I think it makes sense. He's doing the most extreme things to find things that work. And then be able to say, "This subset of intervention worked very well, let's try to reproduce it in a larger population."

kubami commented on Blueprint health protocol protocol.bryanjohnson.com... · Posted by u/L_226

kkoncevicius · 2 years ago

I love what the guy is doing. It is a one-man experiment that would be very very hard to reproduce, or even get ethics approval and funding for, by a research lab.

But on the other hand, I get a sense that the public side of his results are overblown. For example, my field is epigenetics, so I had a look at his "epigenetic clock" results. He uses "DunedinPACE" to track the rate of aging and his result is supposedly 0.72 (which very roughly estimates that he ages 0.72 years per a single astronomical year).

However, what is not mentioned, is that this result, while impressive, is not so extraordinary. He is number 6 in his own online leaderboard [1]. And the people who beat him at this metric don't do anything fancy to get better numbers than him [2]. Why not mention things like that along with all the optimism?

[1]: https://rejuvenationolympics.com/leaderboard/#absolute

[2]: https://fortune.com/well/2023/11/04/longevity-women-biohacke...

kubami · 2 years ago

Maybe if he was not doing anything, his score would be 1.1?

Also, I don't think the point is doing fancy things. The people that beat him might just be doing "common sense" healthy things. Something which most people don't do. See SAD (Standard American Diet).