henryaj

• henryaj 16 Sep 2024 12:31 UTC

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  in reply to: henryaj’s comment on: Why you should be us­ing a retinoid

  https://​​www.sciencedirect.com/​​science/​​article/​​pii/​​S1015958423001392 suggests that bright light might be causing the effect, not UV.

• henryaj 16 Sep 2024 12:26 UTC

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  in reply to: RHollerith’s comment on: Why you should be us­ing a retinoid

  That’s an interesting paper! Although it seems a bit confounded—“Because eyes of mice and of human volunteers were not covered, we cannot exclude the possibility that solar/​UV radiation to the eye affected the observed sexual behavior.” Which would be interesting if true, suggesting that just being outside and getting UV light in the eyes would be the thing to do. I guess you note this at the end of your first comment.

  What do you think about the potential skin aging effects of UV vs the potential health benefits?

• henryaj 16 Sep 2024 12:22 UTC

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  in reply to: quailia’s comment on: Why you should be us­ing a retinoid

  There’s plenty of scientific evidence for the effectiveness of topical retinoids, going back several decades.

• henryaj 18 Dec 2021 20:58 UTC

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  on: Dear Self; We Need To Talk About So­cial Media

  This is wonderful; thank you for writing it. Very much enjoyed the exposition of the “Quiet” state; have been trying out your advice of switching everything off and trying to slip into such a state and am enjoying what I’ve found there.

• henryaj 9 Dec 2021 10:03 UTC

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  in reply to: lsusr’s comment on: Omicron Post #4

  Likewise, thanks for all you’re doing Zvi.

• henryaj 9 Dec 2021 10:03 UTC

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  on: Omicron Post #4

  Sure enough, the UK has triggered its “Plan B” which mandates working from home for those who can, plus vaccine passports for big events. Perhaps suggests lockdowns coming in the new year.

• henryaj 28 Nov 2021 23:57 UTC

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  in reply to: Norman Borlaug’s comment on: Omicron Var­i­ant Post #1: We’re F***ed, It’s Never Over

  Do you know what kind of research Theodora’s lab is actually doing? (She doesn’t have a surname on Twitter so I can’t find her). But I imagine research into spike protein mutants could just involve synthesising spike protein that has mutations and assaying the binding affinity of antibodies to the synthetic spike protein – not necessarily creating mutated viruses.

  (undergrad biochemistry was a long time ago. I could well be wrong)

• henryaj 6 Feb 2021 13:55 UTC

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  in reply to: Dentin’s comment on: Mak­ing Vaccine

  I also don’t understand her comments about the peptide ‘not neutralising COVID in cell [culture]’ - why would it? The peptide is just an antigen to get the body to raise an immune response; on its own it doesn’t kill COVID.

• henryaj 3 Jan 2021 23:55 UTC

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  in reply to: nostalgebraist’s comment on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Not the OP so can’t answer for him, but qualitatively the second (November) lockdown was quite different from the first (March) lockdown—much more leeway given on exercising outdoors, workplaces largely stayed open (even if people were working from home). In March, police officers would move people along if they were sitting on a park bench (as that’s not exercise); the second time round things were much less strictly enforced. Rules around forming ‘bubbles’ with other households also didn’t exist in March.

  Tier 4 is essentially the same as the November lockdown but you can meet one other person outdoors.

• henryaj 3 Jan 2021 23:52 UTC

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  in reply to: velcro’s comment on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Cases went from about 20 on September 1 to 370 in mid November. Then they *dropped* to 213 before jumping up to 500.

  The UK had a national lockdown in November, and lifted it at the start of December.

• henryaj 28 Dec 2020 13:35 UTC

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  in reply to: jonluca’s comment on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Amazing how it differs by region. Here in the UK, anecdotally tests are pretty easy to come by and turned around rapidly—but are still restricted only to those with canonical COVID symptoms (fever/​cough/​change in sense of smell or taste).

• henryaj 24 Dec 2020 21:14 UTC

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  on: Covid 12/​24: We’re F***ed, It’s Over

  Meta: anyone else getting a bunch of broken images in this post?

• henryaj 7 Nov 2020 17:14 UTC

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  in reply to: CellBioGuy’s comment on: Covid ‘Mink var­i­ant’

  Thanks for the well-written and well-reasoned response!

Covid ‘Mink var­i­ant’

• henryaj 30 Mar 2020 12:58 UTC

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  on: Peter’s COVID Con­soli­dated Brief for 29 March

  Thanks for putting these updates together! :)

• henryaj 8 Nov 2019 18:51 UTC

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  in reply to: pjeby’s comment on: Im­ple­ment­ing an Idea-Man­age­ment System

  Um, isn’t that basically a wiki?

  Just picking up on this one point—I’ve used a bunch of personal wikis in the past; they just haven’t stuck for me. Roam has some nice features around this, like backlinking (so just by idly putting something in [[brackets]] you’re starting to collate a list of pages under that term) and searching through text to find ‘missing links’, neither of which I’ve seen in wikis.

• henryaj 9 Jul 2018 1:40 UTC

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  on: An Ex­er­cise in Ap­plied Ra­tion­al­ity: A New Apartment

  Some thoughts:

  • buy nice homeware. The temptation is always to scrimp, but you’re going to be using this stuff regularly for at least the length of your lease, and maybe years beyond that, so splash out on nice kitchenware (knives, nonstick pans, chopping boards, a rice cooker) and bathroom stuff (especially towels).

  • similarly, if there’s stuff that needs fixing, do it right away—then you get the benefit of it for longer. For example, use draft excluder tape to seal the gaps around doors, fix radiators that don’t work, rearrange furniture if you don’t like the way it currently sits.

  • put your phone to charge somewhere away from your bed. (I’ve yet to be able to make this one stick, but maybe being somewhere new will help!)

  Mostly moving into a new place really reveals the holes in my time (especially if you don’t have a TV or haven’t set one up yet), so try to be aware of where your time’s going before you develop a routine and stop thinking about it critically.

• henryaj 30 Jan 2018 10:36 UTC

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  in reply to: habryka’s comment on: A LessWrong Crypto Autopsy

  decided that people would probably use LaTeX more often than trying to use the dollar sign

  Err… this seems like the kind of thing that *really* wouldn’t stand up to user testing.

• henryaj 21 Sep 2014 15:58 UTC

  6 points

  in reply to: Gunnar_Zarncke’s comment on: What are you learn­ing?

  How do you Ankify knowledge like that? Or, to be specific, what’s on the other side of those cards in Anki?

• henryaj 19 Sep 2014 10:29 UTC

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  in reply to: sixes_and_sevens’s comment on: What are you learn­ing?

  Interesting stuff. I’ve not had a great deal of success with OkC, but I tend to get bored of the dating site cycle – the few dates I’ve been on haven’t been very exciting, and I tend to prefer meeting people in person (like at parties) as I find that more immediately engaging and exciting.

  Could you link to your OkC profile? It’d be interesting to have a look at!