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.

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...

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...

Time for a story about how when you heat things up, they almost always get bigger. slimemoldtimemold.com/2025/02/06/t...

Let's take a retrospective look at the first ever *riff trial*:

peanut toxic chocolate lactose art gallery 4D lamb chop placebo ant colony slimemoldtimemold.com/2024/11/29/l...

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.

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...

do they allow threads here yet or what

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." slimemoldtimemold.com/2024/08/08/p...

yorp

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. slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/10/19/h...

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

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/

The first finalist in the SMTM Mysteries Contest — Low Tech Mystery: Why is autism rare among the Amish?

Potassium Tale

More on Macros: Ontology, History, Symmetry — commentary on an essay by ExFatLoss 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/

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/

Human body temperature has significantly decreased over the last 150 years. Seems like a problem for calories-in theories of obesity. If it was just calories in and nothing else was broken, you’d expect body temperatures to go up. This suggests metabolic brokenness.

@pfrazee.com do new additions to threads not get put on the timeline?

Things get confusing when you try to treat a symptom like a disease. https://slimemoldtimemold.com/2023/04/14/n1-symptom-vs-syndrome/

just loving how replies are now disabled on twitter; truly visionary

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I am cheerily suggesting you read this quote and then briefly meditate on how you will use Bluesky

wait... who are you people???

'scuse me! have you seen our 'ouse? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwIe_sjKeAY

put your pfp on the Strong/Weak/Acid/Base alignment chart

seriously what is this image crop, can we not post weird, long memes?

finally, a chance to bring back some stupid memes