Aspartame is not that bad? (2022)(dynomight.net)

97 points by pHequals7 6 months ago | 186 comments

The worthlessness of Vitamin D is mildly exaggerated(dynomight.net)

358 points by surprisetalk 4 months ago | 271 comments

A Dynomight blog essay arguing that claims Vitamin D supplements are worthless are somewhat overstated, reviewing the evidence on their effects.

Pseudpocalypse(dynomight.net)

114 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 64 comments

Does creatine make you smarter?(dynomight.net)

245 points by surprisetalk 3 months ago | 215 comments

So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂(dynomight.net)

101 points by surprisetalk 2 months ago | 80 comments

The main thing about P2P meth is that there's so much of it (2021)(dynomight.net)

171 points by tomjakubowski 5 months ago | 202 comments

Why is the liver so weirdly regenerative?(dynomight.substack.com)

543 points by jbotz 1 month ago | 277 comments

A Dynomight newsletter essay asking why the human liver is so regenerative compared with the rest of the body.

Why the AI future will be awesome(nullpaste.org)

5 points by samstress 18 days ago | 6 comments

A plain-text essay arguing that AI will bring humanity's best era, addressing concerns like bioweapons, AI cyberattacks, and misalignment.

Human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world(news.ucsc.edu)

414 points by XzetaU8 11 months ago | 284 comments

UC Santa Cruz news article reporting research suggesting early developing human brains are preconfigured with instructions for understanding the world.

Why did Google Brain exist?(moderndescartes.com)

445 points by brilee 3 years ago | 282 comments

Personal essay by former Google Brain employee Brian Kihoon Lee examining why Google Brain existed as an industry research lab and whether those reasons still hold.

There is no epidemic of loneliness, but there is an epidemic of scurvy(experimental-history.com)

59 points by luu 1 month ago | 31 comments

An Experimental History Substack essay by Adam Mastroianni arguing there is no loneliness epidemic but there is an epidemic of scurvy.

It's hard to write code for computers, but it's harder to write code for humans(erikbern.com)

429 points by imartin2k 2 years ago | 131 comments

Erik Bernhardsson's blog post arguing that writing code for humans, such as libraries, APIs and tools other developers use, is harder than writing code for computers.