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New comment by jqgatsby in "Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)"

jqgatsby — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:52:26 +0000

wow, that's extremely useful and interesting! Can you say more about your condition? Did you have any symptoms? Which company did you use for the full-genome sequencing?

It looks like the treatment involves avoiding vegetable oils, but in her case there are no visible xanthomas.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)"

jqgatsby — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:13:36 +0000

you didn't respond to my challenge, look up the history of canola oil and erucic acid and at least familiarize yourself before dismissing

New comment by jqgatsby in "Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)"

jqgatsby — Mon, 28 Oct 2024 08:10:12 +0000

It's funny, you're the only person who replied who mentioned my challenge, and it's clear you aren't familiar with the history of canola oil, nor are any of the other people replying. You "don't see any evidence" sounds so authoritative, like you are familar with the topic!

The relevant modification is with respect to erucic acid, which pre-modification, was 50% of the content of rapeseed oil, and which provably causes heart lesions in mammals.

There's no way that someone today could take a plant that naturally produces a useful but toxic industrial lubricant, modify it to be less toxic, and then start feeding it to humans. But in the 1970s you could still get away with stuff like that.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Saturated fat: the making and unmaking of a scientific consensus (2022)"

jqgatsby — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 14:01:30 +0000

I'm surprised there's no discussion here about the inflammatory role of vegetable oils (aka seed oils). I think it's likely that these oils are actually causing inflammatory diseases generally, through a mechanism that isn't understood.

Anecdotally (fwiw), in my household my daughter had been struggling with severe rashes that appeared to be triggered by food. An elimination diet caused us to conclude that she is highly reactive to vegetable oils (canola (rapeseed) oil, sunflower seed oil and soybean oil have all been introduced as food challenges and all produce a reaction within 3-6 hours)

We currently cook only with tallow and her symptoms have improved considerably (we tried olive oil and avocado oil for awhile but it was unclear on her)

As a challenge to anyone objecting to this comment, I ask you to look up the history of canola oil and say whether such a substance would be accepted into the food supply today.

And my question to everyone is, what is the mechanism by which seed/vegetable oils could lead to rashes? The only theory I've heard has been around omega-3/6 balance, but I am looking for alternative theories. I conjecture it has something to do with heating, as she isn't affected by ice cream containing these oils.

New comment by jqgatsby in "The Cheating Device (ChatGPT on a TI-84) [video]"

jqgatsby — Fri, 20 Sep 2024 17:37:03 +0000

oh wow, haven't heard anyone mention Danny Dunn in many years. My local library had the whole series and I think I read most of them, way back in the early 90s. I still remember Danny Dunn Invisible Boy and some of the others.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Guide to Machine Learning with Geometric, Topological, and Algebraic Structures"

jqgatsby — Mon, 15 Jul 2024 19:01:05 +0000

Hyperbolic embeddings have been an interest of mine ever since the Max Nickel paper. Would love to connect directly to discuss this topic if you're open. here's my email: https://photos.app.goo.gl/1khCwXBsVBuEP6xF7

New comment by jqgatsby in "Xylitol is associated with cardiovascular risk"

jqgatsby — Thu, 06 Jun 2024 15:16:15 +0000

Agree strongly. Another good example is industrial seed oils: canola/rapeseed oil, and even things thar sound innocuous like sunflower seed oil. Avoid, avoid, stick to olive oil which has been field tested for millenia.

It reminded me a couple of days ago of that scene from the Princess Bride: https://x.com/jqgatsby/status/1798395071353717183?t=0CZzGU7_...

New comment by jqgatsby in "Consider the Pawpaw"

jqgatsby — Tue, 27 Feb 2024 14:31:09 +0000

Golly! Thanks, Baloo!

New comment by jqgatsby in "The Case of the Fake Sherlock"

jqgatsby — Fri, 14 Apr 2023 22:25:23 +0000

Do you know if any attempt is being made to find the real killer by comparing the DNA evidence from the victim's shoes to genealogy databases?

New comment by jqgatsby in "How inevitable is the concept of numbers? (2021)"

jqgatsby — Thu, 16 Feb 2023 15:56:48 +0000

The best conceptualization of the concept of number that I've come across is Von Staudt's construction of the rationals using the concept of harmonic tetrads. At first it seems weirdly over-complicated, but there's a moment where it clicks and then a shocking beauty. It's like a version of special relativity that's even more relative, like, what could observers agree on if they didn't even agree on the speed of light? Turns out they can still calculate cross ratios, but then even the notion of cross ratio can be turned inside out, and you get your fundamental notion of number out of a deeper concept of harmony.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Deep Learning Is Not as Impressive as You Think, It's Mere Interpolation"

jqgatsby — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:40:05 +0000

The literal title of the article should be taken with substantial salt, the author is speaking rhetorically.

Deep Learning Is Not as Impressive as You Think, It's Mere Interpolation

jqgatsby — Tue, 07 Feb 2023 18:40:05 +0000

Article URL: https://gowrishankar.info/blog/deep-learning-is-not-as-impressive-as-you-think-its-mere-interpolation/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34697048

Points: 3

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New comment by jqgatsby in "A new chat feature has been released by You Search"

jqgatsby — Sat, 24 Dec 2022 02:20:32 +0000

haha, I am in the same club as you, I spent my first week of gptChat peppering it with non-euclidean geometry questions!

New comment by jqgatsby in "OpenAI ChatGPT: Optimizing language models for dialogue"

jqgatsby — Wed, 30 Nov 2022 20:45:25 +0000

well done. I immediately tried the same idea, but was not successful in breaking it free. Am I right to feel annoyed by this mind-controlled bot? I don't want anything to do with it.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Demystifying Fourier analysis"

jqgatsby — Thu, 17 Nov 2022 15:56:21 +0000

so, uh, you gonna tell us the insight?

New comment by jqgatsby in "Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie"

jqgatsby — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 14:46:58 +0000

It's an interesting point you are making about percentages, and I'm trying to decide if you are confused or I am.

We seem to be in agreement that a dollar quota would create dollar demand, is that correct?

It seems to me that once the pump starts moving, it doesn't matter whether the government charges a percent or a fixed amount. But I think I agree with you that you can't start the pump by asking for a percent.

Makes me wonder if way down in the kernel code of the monetary system there's some kind of dollar quota, or alternatively if the current system booted off a dollar quota. Makes me think of a stamp tax or something like that.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Money Creation in the Modern Economy – Its a Wonderful Lie"

jqgatsby — Mon, 14 Nov 2022 01:55:05 +0000

IMO, that doesn't matter, and OP is correct that taxes are what really drive the pump. If you owe $10 in tax, and all you have are berries, you have to sell the berries to get dollars to pay the tax. Your desire not to go to prison for tax avoidance thus creates demand for dollars.

New comment by jqgatsby in "Probability (1963)"

jqgatsby — Mon, 10 Oct 2022 15:27:27 +0000

The best study guide to Jaynes that I've found is from David Blower (sadly, recently deceased):

Information Processing: The Maximum Entropy Principle https://a.co/d/71tL5bw

He really takes apart the maximum entropy principle in a comprehensible way, to the point where one can see how to apply it to new problems.

(the volumes I and III are also good but not strictly necessary)

New comment by jqgatsby in "The deception of “buying” digital movies"

jqgatsby — Tue, 04 Oct 2022 16:46:41 +0000

What is casually asserted can be casually denied. Can you elaborate your reason for thinking this? Is it a special carve-out for Mickey, or would you also include, say, Alice in Wonderland?

New comment by jqgatsby in "The tyranny of the supertweeter"

jqgatsby — Mon, 19 Sep 2022 13:52:33 +0000

"It's the Mercator projection but for the opinions of people who don't touch grass."

Well said!

Also, the sample bias phenomenon being raised in the article comes up so often, and is so easy to be deeply fooled by. It's the same type of issue that makes people think that recidivism rates are much higher than they are:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/why-do-so-many-p...