October 2017 Media Thread

Eocene thermal spike, CO2 was only 1000ppm

Burial-induced oxygen-isotope re-equilibration of fossil foraminifera explains ocean paleotemperature paradoxes

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-017-01225-9

This may mean most climate models are at the low end of speed of warming increase

GSA meeting- Journey Into The Chicxulub Crater

http://astrobiology.com/2017/10/moment-of-impact-a-journey-into-the-chicxulub-crater.html

Session Link: https://gsa.confex.com/gsa/2017AM/webprogram/Session43180.html

Outer Planets Assessment Group - meeting Sept 2017 presentations

https://www.lpi.usra.edu/opag/meetings/sep2017/presentations/

Allen Stern update on New Horizons interesting.

Physically active white men at high risk for plaque buildup in arteries

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoia-paw101617.php

"When these findings were stratified by race and gender, they found that white men were at the highest risk-they were 86 percent more likely to have CAC. There was no higher odds of CAC for black participants who exercised at this level, and while there was a similar trend for white women it was not statistically significant."

"High levels of exercise over time may cause stress on the arteries leading to higher CAC," said Rana, "however this plaque buildup may well be of the more stable kind, and thus less likely to rupture and causes heart attack, which was not evaluated in this study."

Glucosamine dampens the brain hyperexcitability seen in seizures or epilepsy

http://www.sciencecodex.com/dietary-supplement-dampens-brain-hyperexcitability-seen-seizures-or-epilepsy-615985

Since neural excitability in the hippocampus is a key feature of seizures and epilepsy, they hypothesized that acutely increasing protein O-GlcNAcylation might dampen the pathological hyperexcitability associated with these brain disorders.

NIST cautions of using bayes for weighting in legal forensics

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/nios-nuc101217.php

"Bayesian theory does not support using an expert's opinion, even when expressed numerically, as a universal weight of evidence. Among different ways of presenting information, it has not been shown that LR is most appropriate."

Machine Learning for Investors: A Primer

https://alphaarchitect.com/2017/09/27/machine-learning-investors-primer/

"We’ll review the following items in this piece:

How machine learning differs from statistical methods and why it’s a big deal
The key concepts
A couple of nuts-and-bolts examples to give a flavor of how it solves problems
Code to jumpstart your own mad science experiments
A roadmap to learn more about it.

Hurricane Maria Damage Assessment - PR NWS - drone footage

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCwFZtaQHE&feature=youtu.be

and the US weather service is losing personell

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/10/26/down-hundreds-of-staff-weather-service-teetering-on-the-brink-of-failure-labor-union-says/?utm_term=.28628bdad950

Hillbilly Elegy by J.D. Vance, 2016

The Mating Mind by Geoffrey Miller, 2000

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan and Cacilda Jetha, 2010

Spent: Sex, Evolution, and Consumer Behavior by Geoffrey Miller, 2009

Neuropath by R. Scott Bakker. A crazy neurosurgeon dissects people's selfhood while the good guys discuss evolutionary psychology and why the whole concept of crime may be misguided. The author keeps a blog on the same ideas (https://rsbakker.wordpress.com).

autonomous

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/28209634-autonomous

wonderful descriptions of environments, interesting ideas on bio-printing and big pharma, with IP having its own intl police force.

The Bobiverse Series by Dennis E. Taylor

A fun book series with good pacing that explores a lot of interesting ideas (cryonics, mind uploading, AI, etc). Highly recommended.

Lung Collapses Are A Surprisingly Common Esports Injury

https://compete.kotaku.com/lung-collapses-are-a-surprisingly-common-esports-injury-1795731971

"Over the last seven years, at least six high-profile esports players have been struck with a debilitating and serious medical condition called spontaneous pneumothorax—a collapsed lung. Some had to withdraw from matches. A couple kept playing, even though it probably wasn’t a great idea. Why is this, of all injuries, common in esports?

Notepad and scheduling app, tiddlywiki

http://tiddlywiki.com/

http://tobibeer.github.io/tb5/#Solutions

A gallery of Dashi Namdakov's sculptures and stuff

Our minds can be hijacked': the tech insiders who fear a smartphone dystopia

"Google, Twitter and Facebook workers who helped make technology so addictive are disconnecting themselves from the internet."

There is growing concern that as well as addicting users, technology is contributing toward so-called “continuous partial attention”, severely limiting people’s ability to focus, and possibly lowering IQ."

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/oct/05/smartphone-addiction-silicon-valley-dystopia

and this on ads and graphics

https://www.creativereview.co.uk/north-korea-graphic-design-book-phaidon/

https://www.gwern.net/newsletter/2017/09