Weekly Newsletter 2022.05.16-2022.05.29
Medicinehttps://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-covid-capitulation?s=w (RE) I can personally say that the past several weeks have involved multiple sick contacts and close friends or family contracting COVID. I also think that my social circle is more prone to this as many of these people were early recipients of each dose and booster and employed more stringent protective measures than the average citizen with no known prior infections. When each of these people became infected I worried for th...
Weekly Newsletter 2022.05.16-2022.05.29
Medicinehttps://erictopol.substack.com/p/the-covid-capitulation?s=w (RE) I can personally say that the past several weeks have involved multiple sick contacts and close friends or family contracting COVID. I also think that my social circle is more prone to this as many of these people were early recipients of each dose and booster and employed more stringent protective measures than the average citizen with no known prior infections. When each of these people became infected I worried for th...
Weekly Newsletter 2022.05.02 -2022.05.08
Sorry for the delay, family emergencies required me to travel and interrupted workflows. Hopefully a new essay soon as well.Medicine:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1300625 (RE) In the list of studies where the results could be replaced with the phrase, "Our results show exactly what you would have predicted." It's still nice to have this data on hand though. While the rates of complication, morbidity, and mortality are all relatively low here, it is very notable that having ...
Weekly Newsletter 2022.05.02 -2022.05.08
Sorry for the delay, family emergencies required me to travel and interrupted workflows. Hopefully a new essay soon as well.Medicine:https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa1300625 (RE) In the list of studies where the results could be replaced with the phrase, "Our results show exactly what you would have predicted." It's still nice to have this data on hand though. While the rates of complication, morbidity, and mortality are all relatively low here, it is very notable that having ...
Weekly Newsletter Roundup (2022.04.10 - 2022.05.01)
A 3X dose of weekly newsletters? Lucky you.Medicine:(RA w/ Skimming) Schmidt, Barbara, et al. "Caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity." New England Journal of Medicine 354.20 (2006): 2112-2121. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16707748/ Imagine, if you will, an array of NICU baby pods. Each with its own little cafe inhabitant arguing over the true meaning of modern artistic movements. Writing their little manuscripts. Slowly stirring in creme as the coffee goes cold and the mind busies itse...
Weekly Newsletter Roundup (2022.04.10 - 2022.05.01)
A 3X dose of weekly newsletters? Lucky you.Medicine:(RA w/ Skimming) Schmidt, Barbara, et al. "Caffeine therapy for apnea of prematurity." New England Journal of Medicine 354.20 (2006): 2112-2121. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/16707748/ Imagine, if you will, an array of NICU baby pods. Each with its own little cafe inhabitant arguing over the true meaning of modern artistic movements. Writing their little manuscripts. Slowly stirring in creme as the coffee goes cold and the mind busies itse...
Weekly Newsletter (2022.04.03-2022.04.9)
Technology:AlphaCode (RE)https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-alphacode I know that I pointed to this last week, but it's been sitting on my desktop and I've gone back through it again. I feel like the impact of unlocking coding capacities for those without the technical capabilities are untold. The types of challenges that were tackled by this model are highly practical and something that even non-CS intense fields would benefit from utilizing.DALL-E 2 (RE) ht...
Weekly Newsletter (2022.04.03-2022.04.9)
Technology:AlphaCode (RE)https://www.deepmind.com/blog/competitive-programming-with-alphacode I know that I pointed to this last week, but it's been sitting on my desktop and I've gone back through it again. I feel like the impact of unlocking coding capacities for those without the technical capabilities are untold. The types of challenges that were tackled by this model are highly practical and something that even non-CS intense fields would benefit from utilizing.DALL-E 2 (RE) ht...
Mission Creep as Hedonic Adaptation
I. The Socioemotional ThermostatThere’s a secret blessing and cursing within your life that you’ve probably noticed before. The things you always thought you wanted, when and if you finally got them, eventually lost the fresh flavor of self-fulfillment. Your daily life probably contains, subjectively, a similar amount of stress and folly as it did before you got that promotion, or new car, or even just fixed that sticky door lock that you hated so much. The opposite is also true. Life is mark...
Mission Creep as Hedonic Adaptation
I. The Socioemotional ThermostatThere’s a secret blessing and cursing within your life that you’ve probably noticed before. The things you always thought you wanted, when and if you finally got them, eventually lost the fresh flavor of self-fulfillment. Your daily life probably contains, subjectively, a similar amount of stress and folly as it did before you got that promotion, or new car, or even just fixed that sticky door lock that you hated so much. The opposite is also true. Life is mark...
