Good Writing(paulgraham.com)

275 points by oli5679 1 year ago | 276 comments

Engineering Sleep(minjunes.ai)

407 points by amin 1 year ago | 170 comments

Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.

Economics and Similar, for the Sleep-Deprived (2005)(blog.danieldavies.com)

14 points by thunderbong 2 years ago | 2 comments

Solar-based sleep patterns compared to modern norms(dylan.gr)

94 points by James72689 5 months ago | 83 comments

Good ideas do not need lots of lies in order to gain public acceptance (2008)(blog.danieldavies.com)

331 points by sedev 6 months ago | 173 comments

Daniel Davies' 2004 blog post, the 'D-Squared Digest One Minute MBA', arguing that good ideas do not need lies to gain acceptance, written amid the Iraq War debate, with a 2008 update.

When good pseudorandom numbers go bad(blog.djnavarro.net)

60 points by chewxy 1 year ago | 19 comments

Improving deep sleep may prevent dementia, study finds(monash.edu)

418 points by clouddrover 3 years ago | 381 comments

Monash University news article reporting a study finding that each 1% yearly loss of deep sleep in people over 60 is linked to a 27% higher dementia risk.

Engineering Sleep(minjunes.ai)

407 points by amin 1 year ago | 170 comments

Personal essay arguing sleep can be engineered to be more efficient, drawing on Familial Natural Short Sleep mutations that let people sleep less without harm.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality risk than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com)

654 points by bilsbie 3 months ago | 338 comments

A 2023 study in the journal SLEEP finding that sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration; the capture shows a Cloudflare verification page.

Sleep regularity is a stronger predictor of mortality than sleep duration (2023)(academic.oup.com)

345 points by yamrzou 2 years ago | 200 comments

Open-access SLEEP journal article reporting a prospective cohort study finding sleep regularity predicts mortality risk better than sleep duration.

GLM-5.2 is a step change for open agents(interconnects.ai)

344 points by vantareed 4 months ago | 197 comments

Nathan Lambert's Interconnects post arguing that the GLM-5.2 model marks a capability threshold for open-weight agentic AI.

New research suggests people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming(newyorker.com)

432 points by XzetaU8 5 months ago | 255 comments

New Yorker essay by Shayla Love on research showing people can communicate and practice skills while dreaming, and whether we should learn in sleep.