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Feb 16

I used to sleep the normal 7.5 hours a day. Over the last 180 days I have slept an average of 5 hours 57 minutes per day. So, after 2 years of experimentation and occasional deep dives into the scientific literature, here are my theses on sleep:

Theses on Sleep - Alexey GuzeySummary: In this essay, I question some of the consensus beliefs about sleep, such as the need for at least 7 hours of sleep for adults, harmfulness of acute sleep deprivation, and harmfulness of long-term sleep deprivation and our inability to adapt to it. It appears that the evidence for all of th…guzey.com

QC @QiaochuYuan

@alexeyguzey re: sleepiness indicating the boringness of the environment, ime it goes deeper than that. sleepiness can become a psychological defense against many uncomfortable emotions and "boredom" is often hiding one or more of these

^ matches my experience

Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc

Today we release the findings of our survey of MPs, testing their statistical skills (a thread) rss.org.uk/news-publicati…

Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc

We asked a sample of MPs the same simple probability question we asked them ten years ago - if you toss a coin twice, what is the probability of getting two heads?

Royal Statistical Society @RoyalStatSoc

This time round, around half of respondents (52%) gave the correct answer of 🥁 25% This is a likely improvement from when we polled MPs in 2011, when 40% of respondents gave the correct answer

Charles Brenner, PhD @CharlesMBrenner

in 1997 David was a postdoc with Lenny Guarente & published a very nice paper showing that SIR2 extends the number of times a yeast mother cell can produce daughter cells by controlling formation of ribosomal DNA circles doi.org/10.1016/S0092-…

Brandon Ghaeli ⚡️ @heyitsmebrandon

@CharlesMBrenner Where there is money, there will be misinformation. Enjoying the balance of your tweets vs. Sinclair. Can you explain the peer review process? Curious how/why it has failed on some of his articles as you point out.

^ thread about David Sinclair 🤔

Ben (hiring 65/∞ teammates) @benskuhn

In my experience, they *are* near-universally effective—for example, my top piece of perf feedback from reports is that our 1:1s are very useful—but this updates me that that’s not the default and perhaps even my “care a lot” advice in benkuhn.net/11 is insufficient.The unreasonable effectiveness of one-on-onesWhen I started dating my partner, I quickly noticed that grad school was making her very sad. This was shortly after I’d started leading an engineering team at Wave, and so the “obvious” hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, “management”) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective.…benkuhn.net

Benjamin Todd @ben_j_todd

There's $1bn+ available for these anti-pandemic megaprojects: 1. Int early detection centre 2. Actually good PPE 3. Rapid & broad antivirals & vaccines 4. Bioweapons watchdog 5. Self-sterilizing buildings 6. Refuges If you might help, fill out the form:

Concrete Biosecurity Projects (some of which could be big) - EA ForumAndrew Snyder-Beattie and Ethan Alley • This is a list of longtermist biosecurity projects. We think most of them could reduce catastrophic biorisk by more than 1% or so on the current margin (in rel…forum.effectivealtruism.org

Alexander Kruel @XiXiDu

What one year of progress can look like in machine learning.

Milan Cvitkovic @MWCvitkovic

The Goals of NeurotechnologyWhy I and probably you should work on neurotechnologymilan.cvitkovic.net

Thinkwert @Thinkwert

Thankful that we humans are not vulnerable as well to cleverly designed bait that hacks our pattern-recognition abilities and reward systems.

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