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Satvik Anand

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  • What do you do when you find yourself in a situation like that—where the only way to cling to your status is to censor yourself? It took me a few months to accept the obvious answer, but for me, it could only be: you quit. I would turn down all offers.
    Pick an audience that is into the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
  • I struggled to keep the expectations from steering my writing even when I wasn’t writing for an audience. Their expectations had become mine. And this made it hard for me to follow my thoughts where they wanted to go.
    Pick an audience that is into the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
  • After doing this for a year or two, I noticed that I had gotten more circumscribed in my writing. I had started to sound how I was expected to sound.
    Pick an audience that is into the illegible you of today, not your past achievements
  • Remember then: there is only one time that is important—Now! It is the most important time because it is the only time when we have any power. The most necessary man is he with whom you are, for no man knows whether he will ever have dealings with any one else: and the most important affair is, to do him good, because for that purpose alone was man sent into this life!'
    Three Questions
  • "We are all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing."
    Notes of a Dirty Old Man
  • we notify the maintainers of each affected dataset and recommended several low-overhead defenses.
    2302.10149
  • Keep Off Walls: Avoid placing furniture directly against walls, especially exterior walls that tend to be cooler and more prone to condensation. A distance of at least two inches leaves enough space for air to flow between the wall and the furniture.
    How to Prevent Mold on Wood Furniture
  • Keep Off Walls: Avoid placing furniture directly against walls, especially exterior walls that tend to be cooler and more prone to condensation. A distance of at least two inches leaves enough space for air to flow between the wall and the furniture.
    How to Prevent Mold on Wood Furniture
  • Slice of life is a good place to start.
    30 Day Japanese - TheMoeWay
  • Their misjudgment about the complexity of the world also manifests itself in the idea that one can even get “advice” on something as personal as a career. You are constrained by your personality, your culture, your community, and so really the only way to pick a career path is to think about it for yourself
    Ethical Humility: What Cellular Automata have to say about ruthless introspection, Effective Altruism, and annoyed girlfriends. | by Willem Nielsen | Medium
  • They take a longtermist view that the majority of the people will exist in the future, therefore we should prioritize the long term. The issue is that the future has an irreconcilable amount of uncertainty surrounding it, thus the consequences of your actions are completely unknown. They claim to be open to other views but the group has become a hub of longtermism. My issue is not with their existence but with their marketing. They are not the way to virtue that many young people believe, They should really be called a hyperrational, overconfident, intellectual cult.
    Ethical Humility: What Cellular Automata have to say about ruthless introspection, Effective Altruism, and annoyed girlfriends. | by Willem Nielsen | Medium
  • In this study, we interrogate that temporal structure to see if we could lead the animals to violate it. We find that these natural activity time courses are remark - ably robust. When we provided animals with visual feedback of different views of their neural activity, we observed nearly the same time courses of neural population activity regardless of the view
    Dynamical constraints on neural population activity
  • Authors such as Mehta (2002)[3] and Khan (2015)[4] discovered the existence of anti-Bredt olefins. Later, in 2024, Neil Garg and his team demonstrated that the formation of anti-Bredt molecules is possible, even if only as short-lived intermediates.[5]
    Bredt's rule
  • Odontoid process The most distinctive characteristic of this bone is the strong Odontoid Process(also known as the "dens") which rises perpendicularly from the upper surface of the body.It is a prominent rounded superior projection from the body.This tooth-like elevation serves a stable point around which the atlas bone rotates. Posteriorly the Odontoid process is flattened where it articulates with the transverse ligament.[2]
    Axis - Physiopedia
  • Each vertebra, in higher vertebrates, consists of a ventral body, or centrum, surmounted by a Y-shaped neural arch. The arch extends a spinous process (projection) downward and backward that may be felt as a series of bumps down the back, and two transverse processes, one to either side, which provide attachment for muscles and ligaments.
    Vertebral column | Anatomy & Function | Britannica
  • Let’s say you want to read more books. You could set the goal to read 50 books by the end of the year, or you could create a habit and decide to always carry a book with you.
    Habits vs. Goals: A Look at the Benefits of a Systematic Approach to Life - Farnam Street
  • Oceanix designs and builds floating cities for people to live sustainably on the ocean.
    Oceanix – Leading the next frontier for human habitation
  • An absolute or raw score on an exam does not indicate how a student's performance compares with that student's peers.
    Statistical Analysis of Multiple Choice Exams
  • make no direct moral claims on us.
    The Animals Issue
  • Maintaining a friendship is taxing: you have to be there for each other through everything; you have to be willing to keep talking even when you’re annoyed with them, even when they’ve hurt you. You have to have unwavering conviction about who the most important people in your life are. In the moments of frustration and doubt, it feels easier to put your energy towards someone new instead.
    The problem of long-term close friendships - by Kasra
  • Saying goodbye in forty years is not gonna be any easier than saying it in three months. The more I can internalize this, the more I can treat each friendship as the precious and singular experience that it is, without any guarantee of how much longer it’ll last.
    The problem of long-term close friendships - by Kasra
  • I have trouble imagining anyone who can make this commitment, and I’m not even sure that I can make the commitment and follow through.
    The problem of long-term close friendships - by Kasra
  • The feelings of our heart, the agitation of our passions, the vehemence of our affections, dissipate all its conclusions, and reduce the profound philosopher to a mere plebeian.
    The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume.
  • Nature will always maintain her rights, and prevail in the end over any abstract reasoning whatsoever.
    The Project Gutenberg eBook of An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding, by David Hume.
  • By avoiding identifying with a group I mean actually, on the intuitive level, not considering yourself an . Many rationalists claim to have "fundamental disagreements" with the ideology despite their obvious intuitive identification.
    The Rationality Community Sucks
  • If you struggle with implementing your genius ideas in the real world, maybe you shouldn't hang out with a group where saving the world is done through philosophy blog posts.
    The Rationality Community Sucks
  • Because yes, sometimes friends witness you in such a moment and they walk away. But the right people will see you in your weakness and they’ll come and sit next to you.
    Give your friends a chance to abandon you - by Kasra
  • You can use use_shared_state_provider to share a certain value all the way down to it's children.
    🦀 Dioxus Library Cheatsheet
  • The use_state hook is used to store data that will change over time. It takes an initial value and returns a UseState object.
    🦀 Dioxus Library Cheatsheet
  • herefore, this reaction was anonenzymatic reaction that was responsi-ble for the activation of guanylate cyclaseby nitroglycerin. These earlier observa-tions taken together with the recent find-ings of Chenet al.(6) indicate that bothenzymatic and nonenzymatic mechanis
    After 130 years, the molecular mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is revealed
  • Tolerance to nitroglycerin was explainedsimply by thiol utilization and depletion inthe presence of excess nitroglycerin,thereby resulting in deficient productionofS-nitrosothiol and NO. This workinghypothesis was supported by animal andclinical studies showing that the adminis-tration of relatively large doses of cysteineorN-acetylcysteine could prevent or re-verse the tolerance to the vasodilator ac-tion of repeated administration of nitro-glycerin (see ref. 5).
    After 130 years, the molecular mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is revealed
  • oac-tivation of nitroglycerin somehow in-volved thiols or sulfhydryl-containingcompounds, and that NO or NO-contain-ing compounds constituted the biologi-cally active species
    After 130 years, the molecular mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is revealed
  • Consistent with this observation is thereport that aldehyde dehydrogenase activ-ity is markedly inhibited in patients un-dergoing chronic administration of nitro-glycerin and other organic nitrate esters(20).
    After 130 years, the molecular mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is revealed
  • oactivation.The study of Chenet al.(6) teaches usthat mitochondrial aldehyde dehydroge-nase is at least partially responsible for thebioactivation of nitroglycerin and is likelyto be the target of nitroglycerin tolerance
    After 130 years, the molecular mechanism of action of nitroglycerin is revealed
  • graphies, trade press. He went over to his grandfather who was a grocer and he read the progressive grocer magazine, and he read articles on how to stock a meat department... What he’s really done is he’s created this immense vertical filing cabinet in his brain of layers and layers and layers of files of information that he can draw back on now for more than 70 years worth of data.
    Curius / Onboarding