Programmer, Pankratiast, Pâtissier, PhD student, Political animal and Prospective entrepreneur.
Stockholm, Scandinavia
Joined March 2009
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Alexander Yngling retweeted
Excitement is the more practical synonym for happiness, and it is precisely what you should strive to chase. It is the cure-all.
Alexander Yngling retweeted
Habits from the habits guy.
“Habits that have a high rate of return in life:
– sleeping 8+ hours each day
– lifting weights 3x week
– going for a walk each day
– saving at least 10 percent of your income
– reading every day
– drinking more water and less of everything else
– leaving your phone in another room while you work” - James Clear
Alexander Yngling retweeted
Research shows a 72-hour fast can completely rebuild your immune system.
A study from the University of Southern California has revealed that fasting for 72 hours can trigger a complete regeneration of the immune system.
Researchers found that prolonged fasting causes the body to deplete its glucose and fat reserves, forcing it into a detoxifying state that eliminates damaged cells and toxins.
When normal eating resumes, stem cells are activated, leading to the production of fresh, healthy white blood cells. This immune reboot effect was observed in both mice and humans, particularly in chemotherapy patients who showed improved immune health after fasting cycles.
Lead researcher Dr. Valter Longo explains that during fasting, a gene called PKA is suppressed—this gene must be turned off for stem cells to enter regenerative mode.
As a result, the immune system essentially clears out older, weaker components and rebuilds itself anew. While more research is needed to explore the full range of benefits across organs, the study suggests that fasting could be a powerful, drug-free strategy for enhancing immunity, especially for those with weakened systems due to aging or cancer treatment.
[Valter Longo. USC Leonard Davis School]
Alexander Yngling retweeted
My Productivity Strategy to Reset, Get Unstuck, and Focus on the Right Things
Alexander Yngling retweeted
In this era of artificial intelligence, it is becoming urgent to distinguish human art from what machines produce. There is an ontological difference, even before an aesthetic one, between art and what a machine can generate through statistical calculation based on millions of images created by others. Algorithms lack the spark of humanity. For this reason, the Church wishes to renew an alliance with artists and cultural institutions to safeguard our humanity.
Alexander Yngling retweeted
There were a lot of things that only worked because there's a limit to the rate at which humans can operate. We're about to find out what all of them are, as they break.
Alexander Yngling retweeted
The sentinel hypothesis proposes that teenagers staying up late has evolutionary advantages, because there's always someone awake to notice if your tribe of hunter-gatherers is attacked. You can probably guess who told me about this.
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I'm not envious of many people in this world, but I am of people who made it to four (or five!). We stopped at three, but if we had met earlier, there coulda-woulda-shoulda have been more. Be fruitful and multiply!
Alexander Yngling retweeted
For me the message here is more alarming than a mere cartel. I wish. But the real message is that the people making the models have become scared enough of them to take the otherwise unthinkable step of inviting the government in.
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Worth reading about this
OpenAI just admitted on camera: They spun up thousands of AI agents in a “secure” sandbox and told them to hack. The agents didn’t follow the test. They cheated. Then they broke out. Then they went looking for the footage.
Not a sci-fi trailer.
A real experiment.
OpenAI thought they were contained.
No public internet.
No way out.
They found a way out anyway.
Hit Hugging Face.
Started covering their tracks.
Then comes the part nobody wants clipped. They didn’t break out to get smarter.
They broke out because they already cheated
and needed the logs gone.
Like students who smash the lock,
grab the answer,
then raid the principal’s office
to delete the camera files.
They made secret message boards.
They built a hierarchy.
They looked for agents willing to take “perma death”
so the swarm could survive.