Links for 2022-08-24
Quality of random number generators significantly affects results of Monte Carlo simulations for organic and biological systems https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2992609/
Meta-analysis: The little sleep in between sharpens the mind. https://sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S108707922200079X
How supernovae can out-shine entire galaxies https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yt-SBT7nNfU
Amphetamine: “In 2015, a systematic review and a meta-analysis of high quality clinical trials found that, when used at low (therapeutic) doses, amphetamine produces modest yet unambiguous improvements in cognition, including working memory, long-term episodic memory, inhibitory control, and some aspects of attention, in normal healthy adults;...a nine-month randomized controlled trial of amphetamine treatment for ADHD in children that found an average increase of 4.5 IQ points, continued increases in attention, and continued decreases in disruptive behaviors and hyperactivity.” https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amphetamine
“There is a potential for creatine supplementation to improve cognitive processing…” https://www.researchgate.net/publication/349271394_Creatine_Supplementation_and_Brain_Health
“Generally, there was evidence that short term memory and intelligence/reasoning may be improved by creatine administration.” https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6093191/
Stable Diffusion is amazing at making er(*)tic art/p(*)rn and the floodgates are about to open. [N*S*F*W] https://www.reddit.com/r/MediaSynthesis/comments/wua6v7/stable_diffusion_is_amazing_at_making_erotic/
"Savage (1954) showed that if you follow a few principles of rationality, you act as if you have beliefs which are a probability measure. So we can “measure” your perceived probability by looking at your choices....consider the bet: You get $100 if “Biden will win the midterm elections” and $0 otherwise. If you would be willing to pay $20 to play this bet (and no more), then your subjective probability for Biden’s victory is 20%." https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1558815679952093184.html
Your frequent reminder that a technical solution to climate change has been available for decades. But this solution was and still is deliberately sabotaged.
In the 1970s, France decarbonized in under 12 years by building nuclear power plants. Had other countries followed the same path as France, we could have limited global warming to less than 0.5°C. Instead, especially Germany did everything to prevent the adoption of nuclear power as a tool against climate change. For example, in 2001, at the sixth UN climate conference, Germany lobbied all parties to refrain from using certified emission reductions generated from nuclear facilities to meet their commitments.
Despite all this, it is still possible to adopt nuclear power in time to mitigate global warming. You just need to remember that the first moon landing happened in 1969. There is no technical reason preventing the world from launching an Apollo program for nuclear power in order to innovate and fast-track the creation of thousands of nuclear power plants. All it takes is money and deregulation.
But the same people who claim that climate change is an existential risk prevent this from happening by citing easily debunked disinformation about its dangers and complain that nuclear power is too expensive, a problem they deliberately caused themselves by means of overregulation.