SLIME MOLD TIME MOLD
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"If one does not expect it, one will not find out the unexpected;
It is not to be tracked down and no path leads us to it."
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It is not to be tracked down and no path leads us to it."
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Finally getting around to reading The Mind in the Wheel from @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social, and boy howdy does the prologue do double duty as an exploration of both superficial science and overblown claims about LLMs. Statistics ≠ understanding, even when useful for, e.g., prediction.
August 7, 2025 at 2:01 PM
Finally getting around to reading The Mind in the Wheel from @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social, and boy howdy does the prologue do double duty as an exploration of both superficial science and overblown claims about LLMs. Statistics ≠ understanding, even when useful for, e.g., prediction.
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In case you haven't read the latest edition of The Loop by @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social — you should, it's pure joy.
One highlight is the "Field guide for getting page Reviewer 2"
drive.google.com/file/d/1YR3...
One highlight is the "Field guide for getting page Reviewer 2"
drive.google.com/file/d/1YR3...
March 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
In case you haven't read the latest edition of The Loop by @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social — you should, it's pure joy.
One highlight is the "Field guide for getting page Reviewer 2"
drive.google.com/file/d/1YR3...
One highlight is the "Field guide for getting page Reviewer 2"
drive.google.com/file/d/1YR3...
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In 2023, @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social conducted an experiment. They asked strangers on the internet try eating almost nothing but potatoes for a month.
For the ABC, this is that story. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
For the ABC, this is that story. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
04 | Cooked: A peculiar potato experiment - ABC listen
Why did a group of anonymous strangers on the internet try to eat almost nothing but potatoes for a month?
On Cooked this week, an unusual experiment and the possibilities and perils of a mono-diet....
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February 24, 2025 at 2:23 AM
In 2023, @slimemoldtimemold.bsky.social conducted an experiment. They asked strangers on the internet try eating almost nothing but potatoes for a month.
For the ABC, this is that story. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
For the ABC, this is that story. Listen here or wherever you get your podcasts.
www.abc.net.au/listen/progr...
Time for a story about how when you heat things up, they almost always get bigger.
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The Mind in the Wheel – Prologue: Everybody Wants a Rock
We who have nothing to “wind string around” are lost in the wilderness. But those who deny this need are “burning our playhouse down.” If you put quotes around certain words it sounds more like a m…
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February 7, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Time for a story about how when you heat things up, they almost always get bigger.
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Let's take a retrospective look at the first ever *riff trial*:
February 3, 2025 at 1:15 AM
Let's take a retrospective look at the first ever *riff trial*:
peanut toxic chocolate lactose art gallery 4D lamb chop placebo ant colony
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Links for November 2024
80/20 Strength Training by friend-of-the-blog Uri Bram — Whether or not you care about strength training, more things should be written like this. skeptical thread about honey and bloodlettin…
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November 29, 2024 at 5:52 PM
peanut toxic chocolate lactose art gallery 4D lamb chop placebo ant colony
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Participating in obesity research has been a low-key hobby of mine for two years now and the results are interesting. bsky.app/profile/slim... I am not sure how much I've added, but "try something, write down what happens, sustain over time" is something anyone can try and everyone should.
Last time you heard from her, Krinn (@krinndnz.bsky.social) had just put out a tumblr post titled "An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting".
slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
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Review of Krinn’s Self-Experiment Where She Lost Weight Taking High Doses of Potassium
Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exer…
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November 25, 2024 at 10:45 PM
Participating in obesity research has been a low-key hobby of mine for two years now and the results are interesting. bsky.app/profile/slim... I am not sure how much I've added, but "try something, write down what happens, sustain over time" is something anyone can try and everyone should.
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if we were / are mutuals back in the old country, and are not yet mutuals here, please DM or comment on this post
November 25, 2024 at 9:47 PM
if we were / are mutuals back in the old country, and are not yet mutuals here, please DM or comment on this post
Last time you heard from her, Krinn (@krinndnz.bsky.social) had just put out a tumblr post titled "An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting".
slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
Review of Krinn’s Self-Experiment Where She Lost Weight Taking High Doses of Potassium
Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exer…
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November 25, 2024 at 6:15 PM
Last time you heard from her, Krinn (@krinndnz.bsky.social) had just put out a tumblr post titled "An Ad-Hoc, Informally-Specified, Bug-Ridden, Single-Subject Study Of Weight Loss Via Potassium Supplementation And Exercise Without Dieting".
slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/09/r...
do they allow threads here yet or what
November 11, 2024 at 6:11 AM
do they allow threads here yet or what
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We are once again offering "candy and/or a potato" this Halloween, and I'm VERY pleased to report that one mom just asked her kid, "Is this the potato house you were looking for?!"
October 31, 2024 at 9:36 PM
We are once again offering "candy and/or a potato" this Halloween, and I'm VERY pleased to report that one mom just asked her kid, "Is this the potato house you were looking for?!"
"From April 21 of this year until today (August 5), I’ve been on a potatoes-by-default diet. This was inspired by the email by M ... In that time, I went from a weight of 173.0 pounds to a weight of 155.4."
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Philosophical Transactions: AS on Potatoes-By-Default (Plus Sauce)
Previous Philosophical Transactions: JP Callaghan on Lithium Pharmacokinetics Lithium in Scottish Drinking Water with Al Hatfield M’s Experience with Potatoes-by-Default Jon on One Year Post-Potato-Di...
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August 8, 2024 at 7:26 PM
"From April 21 of this year until today (August 5), I’ve been on a potatoes-by-default diet. This was inspired by the email by M ... In that time, I went from a weight of 173.0 pounds to a weight of 155.4."
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Let's say you're eating a twinkie. How much lithium is in that twinkie? How much lithium is in your food in general? Turns out this is harder to answer than you might think.
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October 26, 2023 at 4:15 PM
Let's say you're eating a twinkie. How much lithium is in that twinkie? How much lithium is in your food in general? Turns out this is harder to answer than you might think.
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ExFatLoss points out that the 8 mysteries of obesity from Part I of A Chemical Hunger mostly fit the seed oil hypothesis
he's right, but we're still not sold on the seed oil hypothesis, and in this post we explain why
he's right, but we're still not sold on the seed oil hypothesis, and in this post we explain why
Still not Sold on Seed Oils
Our friend and colleague Experimental Fat Loss over at Experimental Fat Loss just put out a post titled Seed Oils explain the 8 Mysteries of Obesity. In this post, he takes a look at the 8 mysteries a...
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July 25, 2023 at 5:53 PM
ExFatLoss points out that the 8 mysteries of obesity from Part I of A Chemical Hunger mostly fit the seed oil hypothesis
he's right, but we're still not sold on the seed oil hypothesis, and in this post we explain why
he's right, but we're still not sold on the seed oil hypothesis, and in this post we explain why
The second finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Have Attention Spans Been Declining?
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/
Your Mystery: Have Attention Spans Been Declining?
[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym Cennfaeladh. We’ll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the fin...
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July 24, 2023 at 4:52 PM
The second finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Have Attention Spans Been Declining?
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/07/24/your-mystery-have-attention-spans-been-declining/
The first finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Low Tech Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
Your Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
[This is one of the finalists in the SMTM Mysteries Contest, by a reader writing under the pseudonym TripleTaco. We'll be posting about one of these a week until we have gotten through all the finalis...
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July 17, 2023 at 6:13 PM
The first finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Low Tech Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?
Potassium Tale
Review of Krinn’s Self-Experiment Where She Lost Weight Taking High Doses of Potassium
Krinn is a reader who participated in our Low-Dose Potassium Community Trial. She lost 6 lbs taking low doses of potassium, and liked it enough that she decided to keep going, along with a new exercis...
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July 10, 2023 at 12:24 AM
Potassium Tale
More on Macros: Ontology, History, Symmetry — commentary on an essay by ExFatLoss
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/06/28/more-on-macros/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/06/28/more-on-macros/
June 28, 2023 at 5:25 PM
More on Macros: Ontology, History, Symmetry — commentary on an essay by ExFatLoss
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/06/28/more-on-macros/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/06/28/more-on-macros/
With a self-experiment, you can show that some intervention does or doesn’t have an effect on you, which is great. But this doesn't provide much evidence that the intervention will have the same effect on anyone else. What to do?
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/05/15/n1-n-of-small/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/05/15/n1-n-of-small/
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May 16, 2023 at 12:31 AM
With a self-experiment, you can show that some intervention does or doesn’t have an effect on you, which is great. But this doesn't provide much evidence that the intervention will have the same effect on anyone else. What to do?
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/05/15/n1-n-of-small/
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/05/15/n1-n-of-small/
Peter has a bad reaction to melons. Every time he eats melon, he gets sick right away, and he often throws up.
Peter’s reaction to melon has LOW LATENCY. When it happens, it happens right away. No waiting about. But —
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half-life/
Peter’s reaction to melon has LOW LATENCY. When it happens, it happens right away. No waiting about. But —
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half-life/
April 25, 2023 at 6:22 PM
Peter has a bad reaction to melons. Every time he eats melon, he gets sick right away, and he often throws up.
Peter’s reaction to melon has LOW LATENCY. When it happens, it happens right away. No waiting about. But —
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half-life/
Peter’s reaction to melon has LOW LATENCY. When it happens, it happens right away. No waiting about. But —
https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/25/n1-latency-and-half-life/