Why is the human body so crap except for the liver?(dynomight.net)
9 points by surprisetalk | 0 comments
A Dynomight blog essay asking why many parts of the human body seem poorly designed while the liver is remarkably robust and regenerative.
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Pseudpocalypse(dynomight.net)
114 points by surprisetalk | 64 comments
Life with Hazard Ratios(dynomight.net)
56 points by surprisetalk | 19 comments
The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated(dynomight.net)
358 points by surprisetalk | 271 comments
A Dynomight blog essay arguing that claims Vitamin D supplements are worthless are somewhat overstated, reviewing the evidence on their effects.
I quit drinking for a year(dynomight.net)
31 points by webninja | 26 comments
LLMs predict my coffee(dynomight.net)
132 points by surprisetalk | 53 comments
Maybe there's a pattern here?(dynomight.net)
139 points by surprisetalk | 89 comments
Underrated reasons to be thankful V(dynomight.net)
199 points by numeri | 78 comments
Make product worse, get money(dynomight.net)
142 points by zdw | 154 comments
New colors without shooting lasers into your eyes(dynomight.net)
533 points by zdw | 159 comments
A Dynomight blog essay explaining how the eye's three cone types sense color and how one might perceive new colors without lasers.
I don't like NumPy(dynomight.net)
399 points by MinimalAction | 164 comments
A Dynomight blog essay critiquing NumPy's design, arguing its array broadcasting and indexing make complex computations confusing.
DNA is maybe 60-750MB of data(dynomight.net)
16 points by MattSayar | 2 comments
So Much Blood(dynomight.net)
417 points by debesyla | 195 comments
Dynomight blog post examining the claim that blood products account for about 2% of US exports and the paid plasma donation industry behind it.
My stupid noise journey (2023)(dynomight.net)
153 points by ustad | 169 comments
My 16-month theanine self-experiment(dynomight.net)
711 points by dynm | 366 comments
A Dynomight blog post describing a 16-month blinded self-experiment testing whether the tea-derived supplement theanine reduces anxiety.
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now(dynomight.net)
467 points by dmazin | 419 comments
Dynomight blog post following up on why gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct plays chess well while other LLMs play poorly, testing several theories.
Let's stop counting centuries(dynomight.net)
358 points by surprisetalk | 357 comments
A Dynomight essay arguing that people should stop referring to centuries by ordinal numbers like "18th century" and use clearer date ranges such as "the 1700s" instead.
Contra Wirecutter on the IKEA air purifier (2022)(dynomight.net)
431 points by drdeca | 194 comments
A 2022 Dynomight blog post rebutting Wirecutter's negative assessment of IKEA's air purifiers.
WHO aspartame brouhaha(dynomight.net)
95 points by cantaloupe | 176 comments
Taxonomy of Procrastination(dynomight.net)
301 points by DerekBickerton | 68 comments