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Best of Twitter - Week of February 7, 2022

Alexey Guzey
Feb 16, 2022
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Alexey Guzey @alexeyguzey
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:
guzey.comTheses 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…
4:49 PM āˆ™ Feb 10, 2022
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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
5:57 AM āˆ™ Feb 11, 2022
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^ matches my experience

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Today we release the findings of our survey of MPs, testing their statistical skills (a thread) rss.org.uk/news-publicati…
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9:03 AM āˆ™ Feb 11, 2022
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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?
9:04 AM āˆ™ Feb 11, 2022
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This time round, around half of respondents (52%) gave the correct answer of 🄁 25% This is a likely improvement from when we polled MPs in 2011, when 40% of respondents gave the correct answer
9:06 AM āˆ™ Feb 11, 2022
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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-…
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Brandon Ghaeli āš”ļø @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.
4:43 PM āˆ™ Feb 13, 2022
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^ thread about David Sinclair šŸ¤”

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Ben (hiring 65/āˆž 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 ā€œcare a lotā€ advice in benkuhn.net/11 is insufficient.
benkuhn.netThe 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 ā€œobviousā€ hypothesis to me was that the management (okay, ā€œmanagementā€) one gets in graduate school is totally ineffective.…
2:41 PM āˆ™ Feb 8, 2022
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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:
forum.effectivealtruism.orgConcrete 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…
12:33 PM āˆ™ Feb 9, 2022
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Alexander Kruel @XiXiDu
What one year of progress can look like in machine learning.
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5:23 PM āˆ™ Feb 10, 2022
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Milan Cvitkovic @MWCvitkovic
milan.cvitkovic.netThe Goals of NeurotechnologyWhy I and probably you should work on neurotechnology
2:21 AM āˆ™ Feb 9, 2022
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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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1:30 AM āˆ™ May 20, 2021
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