Thought experiments. Microcosm to macrocosm. Health, Lipids, nutrition, physics, and ego budgeting. Morally opposed to impositions of morality.
Toronto, Ontario
Joined December 2015
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In 1986 a guy got kicked out of every casino in Vegas for counting cards. So he flew to Hong Kong with $180,000 and started betting on horses instead. He walked away with almost $900 million.
It's Bill Benter. He figured horse racing was just another counting problem. Same math, more moving parts.
He and a partner showed up with $180k and a computer. Benter spent years teaching that computer to guess one thing, the real chance each horse had to win. If his number was better than the odds the bookies gave, he bet. If not, he skipped it.
That's the whole trick. Expected value.
EV = p · b − (1 − p)
Only bet when your win chance p, at odds b, is worth more than your chance of losing.
This recording was never meant to be some hidden gem. Nobody expected Professor Tsitsiklis to hand the whole foundation away in 45 minutes, but that's exactly what happens on the board. Students in that room pay over $80,000 a year to sit through it. It's free right here. It's free right here.
Every quant, every professional bettor, every hedge fund analyst started with this exact hour. Benter just watched it and actually did the homework.
Almost nobody knows this lecture even exists. Watch it before it gets taken down.
The answer is in this video.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
The video shows basic introductory probability concepts from a publicly available MIT lecture recorded long after Benter's work. Benter developed sophisticated models based on specific 1980s academic papers, large datasets, and custom programming—not EV from this class.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Bent… bloomberg.com/news/features/… ocw.mit.edu/courses/6-041s…
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The #StayCurious Community is hungry! 4M views in the last 28d. But that's less a flex than a baseline. We're just beginning.
And I'm excited to start playing with some new story-telling and editing techniques in the coming months and continuing to incorporate expert interviews!
Recent guests include @bschermd @SnyderShot @AKoutnik @DominicDAgosti2 @realDaveFeldman @MikeMutzel @robbwolf @EloySantosPujol @Physionic_PhD @davidludwigmd
Who else do I NEED to have on?
Appoint your nominees!
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So I guess we are no longer a democracy? isn't a nation called a dictatorship if only one person at the top is calling all the shots? 🤔Is Parliament in session? I didn't think it was... isn't Parliament supposed to be "open" so that the opposition can question the actions of the Government, before any decisions are put into practice...?
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This little Chinese woman got me fired up 🔥🔥
“Kamawa is sooooo Stoopid”🤣😂☠️
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🚨 New Paper: Could the Carnivore Diet Revolutionize Inflammatory Bowel Disease (IBD) Treatment?
frontiersin.org/journals/nut…
👉 In a case series of 10 patients with IBD, either ulcerative colitis or Crohn’s disease, all 10 saw major clinical improvements on a carnivore-ketogenic diet.
👉 Patients exhibited a mean increase in IBDQ-32 score (higher is better) from 95 to 216 out of a possible 224 points, indicating clinical remission.
👉 Patients are off all medications for IBD.
🌟 The Biological Plausibility 🌟
Ketogenic and carnivore diets increase ketone levels, which is linked to reduced IBD activity in prior studies.
There may also be positive effects on the stem cell niche, in the intestines.
Finally, low-fiber diets may therapeutically impact gut microbiota metabolism, also as shown previously.
Sample patient quotes…
👨 Patient 1: “A keto-carnivore diet let me forget that I have Crohn’s. No drugs, no surgery… The decades that I dealt with Crohn’s are like another lifetime.”
🧑Patient 3: “Within days my bowel movement changed from loose to normal! And within two weeks I had more energy than I did the past 10 years. When I last spoke with my doctor he said that if I'm feeling incredible he does not want to put me on the medication. And that was so encouraging! Especially since he has been really skeptical of the diet.”
👨Patient 6: “Carnivore seems limiting at first, but it’s actually freeing.”
🧑Patient 10: “My carnivore-ketogenic diet healed it all! After over 20 years, I’m disease and medication free! I was told that diet could not help me, but I guarantee you it helped. I lived it. I will never buy another candy bar again. And that’s something because I love sweets, but not as much as I love feeling this way.”
🤔 Could this be the future of IBD treatment? We need to invest in more research to find out. Let’s do that!
For more, read the study and watch the video abstract on YouTube.
youtu.be/JJQCwsy_yM8
Ht/ co-author @AdrianSotoMota
#IBD #Health #GutHealth #CarnivoreDiet #KetogenicDiet #Research
P.S. People will strawman this work. I encourage you to read the paper, including all patients’ powerful stories, and watch the video abstract to hear what arguments are actually being made.
This isn’t about diet tribalism… it’s about pursuing curiosity and progressing research to help suffering people.
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The grossly overused ‘antisemitism’ card is finished - #Israel and its overzealous lobby have only themselves to blame for that. They killed it. The fact is you cannot massacre tens of thousands on innocent humans in broad daylight, and then try to starve and ethnically cleanse the remaining 1.7 million survivors - and expect there won’t be a giant global backlash against you for an ongoing genocide, a holocaust.
LATEST: Israel destroys the UN food distribution center in #Gaza. Sadistic…
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Jewish Faculty Network Steering Committee submission to House Justice Committee hearings on Antisemitism ourcommons.ca/Committees/en/…
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Linoleic acid, the main component of seed oils, becomes oxidized.
Oxidation products of linoleic acid are from 20 to 100 times more abundant in LDL of people with atherosclerosis than in healthy people.
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“It's actually shocking how many people at Google don't even know that this contract exists,” Hasan Ibraheem, a Google software engineer told WIRED. “A lot of people who don't know about it, who then learn about it through us, are reasonably upset.”
wired.com/story/google-no-te…
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To every dietician who was a part of this,
What price do you put on human health?
HOW much did you get paid to misinform/gaslight my generation?
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Diabetes Australia is (I believe) the 1st diabetes group. worldwide to embrace diabetes reversal using an evidence-based, low-carb approach.
Nice job, Defeat Diabetes @DrPeterBrukner! You are leading the way!👏👏
This is the future, @AmDiabetesAssn. It's just not possible to deny the science forever
An exciting day for all those with type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes in Australia with the announcement of a partnership between Defeat Diabetes and Diabetes Australia
defeatdiabetes.com.au/resour…
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Israel has lost the high ground. This is not war. It is robotic mass genocide. Section 1091 of Title 18, United States Code, prohibits genocide whether committed in time of peace or time of war. Genocide is defined in § 1091 and includes violent attacks with the specific intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial, or religious group.
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The #OreoVsStatin study by @nicknorwitz highlights provocative questions about lipid metabolism and #LEM. Interesting NEW 5m vid
mdpi.com/2218-1989/14/1/73
YouTube: youtu.be/l-vXW2mUrw4
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THREAD: The International Court of Justice (ICJ) has issued its ruling in response to South Africa’s invocation of the 1948 Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, accusing Israel of perpetrating the crime of genocide in the Gaza Strip.
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The sun does not rise in the west, and Western hypocrisy – the foundational principle of its rules-based international order - will not end anytime soon.