Posts by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
(DIR) Post #AvwJW4JN3DbBxH4u9Y by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-07-08T23:51:47.241321Z
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i read the substack article but it gets into detailed chemistry that i am not facile with. and it reads like he doesn't do wetwork in a lab but merely points at suspected holes in technique. which is kind of where i am: i am a software engineer so i filter everything through a systems viewpoint, energy demands, biofeedback perspective. i see lots of flaws in what i read but don't understand the nuances enough to really feel comfortable with my assessments - still building my biology LLM in my mind.and, is the DNA really a crystalline solid in the nucleus of the cell? i thought it was "wet" inside the cell. makes the dissolving argument kind of moot???
(DIR) Post #Aw8kcDVVZOIIHTrshs by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2024-11-20T02:19:14.934641Z
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is it possible to set up subforums dedicated to specific biology topics? i would love to chat with other ohmies that have been driven by an interest in biology. i uncover new and amazing things. sometimes with chat's help. classroom discussions!!! i am a novice of course. ee by degree, programming career. systems thinker. i am mesmerized by the irreducible complexity.
(DIR) Post #AwEOn2niBxs0kIZJMO by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-07-17T17:27:45.530901Z
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this hippie preferred bell bottoms and boot jeans. and the most important advice i got as a sophomore in college (1967): "know thy chemist". i know chemistry is hard and i am pretty detail oriented (anal retentive according to spouse). so i just say no to drugs. cannabis and psilocybin are not drugs, and anyway, i know the grower.
(DIR) Post #AwFEDCVpnnFS3cR7Pk by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-07-18T02:43:25.575971Z
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not enough data ... i gave up sugar in 2018 for 30 days and it changed my life - so addictive. then whole food only and keto for several months. more complex carbs now and this is my nutrition plan going forward. mercola has good info about this.
(DIR) Post #AwGHfokDkBH7lESjOS by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-07-18T15:16:02.691261Z
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i feel i have learned a lot of good nutritional biology from mercola. however i appreciate what you are saying - i pick and choose from what i read/hear. - back in 2018, 2019 i watched a lot of "lo carb down under" on YT. learned about the negatives of statins, too. and learned, yet again, how the medical profession is "confused" by metrics.i am suspect of supplements in general - kind of like walking past the gym and thinking i feel the pump. he was more keto when i started my keto regime. he has backed off and i have too.and his focus on mitochondria - one of my passions for several decades. his reasoning is that because glucose creates 4x the ATP of fats, hi fat diet is bad. i think it is more nuanced than that. the ketone energy pathway wouldn't be there if it was not important. the body can't waste energy - has learned not to waste energy - or the body dies.so i see this very simple weight control mechanism. 1) establish a base level of physical activity. 2) switch from glucose to fat - say for several months. 3) when fat is burned for ATP, since more is needed, it extracts from the adipose tissue and organ fat.one problem to be aware of, is that the adipose sequesters toxins. when the adipose tissue breaks down the toxins are released again into the bioframe. so, several days of blahs and/or flu like symptoms.i test these hypotheses on my bioframe and this is where i am at now. i do take K2 - reference from Ivor Cummins interview - with both MK4 and MK7. the chemical engineer (i prefer the engineers i stumble across on social media) he interviewed brought a CAC score of 900 to zero. mine is 10 when measured in early 2019. i am avoiding ionizing radiation these days (also from mercola) so delaying another CT to update the CAC score. (fuck metrics).KoncentratedK is k-vitamins.com. there are a large bibliography of medical articles explaining the biological mechanism. i read a lot of articles. just confirmation bias about how wrong headed the medical profession is in this era.that's too long. we all need a bull session some time to let it all come out.
(DIR) Post #AwJ1Gv83qzJAWvbExM by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-07-19T19:33:19.033097Z
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rabbit hole, much? clicked on some references below and ended up reading about the nobel prize for quantum dots, same year as mRNA (Kariko & Weissman), which can function like LNP to deliver the mRNA into the cytosol. plus provide a readout of biological activity. long live metrics!was that free will or part of the AI algorithm? how pervasive is the AI in my reality.i can't figure out why Zuck is investing so heavily in massive AI data processing centers. what does he know? i don't see that much value in AI if everybody is dead/disabled. what am i missing. the VC spend in AI is surreal.i need to get off social media - i may be convinced.
(DIR) Post #AwjKTX3HpFXyrPs1Pk by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-08-01T15:17:32.298972Z
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i know what you mean. happened to me when i walked into the MIT coop bookstore. although it didn't make me blue, just overwhelmed by all the great information i could never absorb. my Opus Dei secular advisor told me i was immature - i have marinated in that critique for 57 years, now. i feel that way these days when i start diving into a biology topic of interest - any one of the many, many topics that are so fascinating to explore. then i take a break and get back to the project at the top of the stack.i feel like the infinite detail so readily available is a snare for me and the antidote is making progress on accomplishing a project. step by step, day by day. until the clock runs out ... any day now.
(DIR) Post #AxBEOgrYlKqOXdZTYO by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-08-15T02:30:10.837704Z
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after discussion with copilot the short answer is no. neither the standard IM nor the modRNA transfection can do it.
(DIR) Post #AxFAthX0hjB4PLKZ9s by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-08-16T21:32:24.120641Z
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back in late 1960s and early 1970s, AI was heuristic algorithms trying to do something that looked "intelligent" in a limited human context. not too successful at the time. chess, then go. a little hand-eye with a robot arm and a camera eye playing Instant Insanity (4 colored cubes to stack so no duplicate colors in a row).i like the part about Lederberg liking LISP - it was awesome when i learned it - kind of orthonormal to FORTRAN. John McCarthy was a genius for inventing it.i knew Minsky before Epstein did ... he was my BS thesis advisor, sort of - handed me off to Thomas Binford.
(DIR) Post #AxboYkOl7YQkrW9XWa by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-08-27T19:41:19.596091Z
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thank-you for that link. looks like many excellent people to read through. just started reading This Changes Everything / chickenpox and this popped up:In this view, the rash and accompanying symptoms act like a biological reset or upgrade—helping the body shed outdated elements and prepare for more complex adult physiology, much as a snake must shed its skin to grow.i love when biology rhymes across species and contexts. must be the ruliad in operation.
(DIR) Post #Axww9FxO2mtZA9rdZ2 by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-09-07T02:00:00.537171Z
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in the end, it really doesn't matter - the bioframe degrades. the advantage of doing right earlier is the benefit of feeling truly healthy from then to now ... never too late to walk (i can still do my Nordic Track skier) and eat real food. that is what is carrying me across the finish line.
(DIR) Post #AxyP8xwE82gh6jUlE0 by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-09-07T19:57:10.082349Z
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as a boomer (b. 1948) - we were raised to believe that USA defeated evil in germany in 1945 and that was that.i sure can't believe what i see going on. for money? for power? wtf? i'm a hippy so i try to keep it in perspective.
(DIR) Post #B07SFzu0ljvxdgNyme by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-11T00:11:17.881143Z
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life in the 'hood: neighbor stopped by today to visit my spouse who is recovering from hip replacement surgery (her body, her choice, although ...). she is retiring out from USDA, swine virologist. i asked her if she was familiar with Michael Levin's work, which i claim demolishes the rockerfeller medicine paradigm ... first question: has he published peer reviewed work? (obviously doesn't know about pubsmear)i wasn't really in verbal mode and couldn't do his research justice, but i am really pissed that she doesn't know that intramuscular injection to enhance the immune system is stupid. then again, her bread and butter is swine vaxx.i am angry that she did not speak up about transfection five years ago. i figured it out and i'm just a software guy. i wrote a 3 page screed about what i saw as four problems with the mRNA "vaccine": (1) the tek, (2) the ingredients, (3) the manufacturing (know thy chemist!), (4) distribution and administration. she passed it around her lab and everybody laughed.i must let it go.and that is what we are all facing. the consensus narrative dies one old fuck at a time.
(DIR) Post #B0HTLgseEVkZbNvMzQ by HippieDickie@gigaohm.bio
2025-11-15T20:10:21.590575Z
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re: yesterday's stream and AI is just a room full of india's best. no, what i get out of GPT5+agent is not human generated. i would know after 60 years as a programmer.