Why Green Tea Stops Cognitive Decline 🍵
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— Random—
This week I came across a hilarious video by Casually Explained
The creator’s relaxed explanation of life in gaming form will have you snorting your coffee straight back up.
Here are my favourite lines:
“Once you’ve chosen your character & race, you basically sit through a 9 month spawning phase.”
“What’s even worse, once you’ve actually spawned, you have to spend 18 levels going through the tutorial mode.”
— Neuro—
🖥️ Brain Computer Interfaces
A burgeoning field of tech and will be the primary reason behind us solving the artificial intelligence control problem. There’s a plethora of early stage startups already involved, and focusing on neurological diseases.
🚀 No surprises, Elon Musk is actually entering the fray w/ Neural Link
A sign that people are starting to pay attention to this nascent technology.
🍵 More reasons to support my consumption of green tea
Daily consumption of tea may protect the elderly from cognitive decline — a study suggests — by up to 50%. T he study also found gene carriers who are at risk of developing Alzheimer’s (APOE e4) disease may experience a reduction in cognitive impairment risk by as much as 86 per cent. An intriguing read for tea lovers.
— Mental Models —
😑 The one thing by Gary Keller — developing your minding power
This is an interesting video essay on the book review. The short of it is, how much willpower you use over the day has consequences to completing anything — interested to investigate the neurochemistry behind this.
📚 Circle of competence
Warren Buffett has always spoken about defining your circle of competence, and knowing the edge of it. In a way, this is merely a matter of simplifying what you’re good at, focusing on it, and becoming elite at it. Having read a few pieces on this including Understanding Circle of Competence , Circle of Competence Theory , and Different Layers of Competence in the last few months — I can say that this is incredibly important in our busy modern world.
Too many people spend unnecessary hours on irrelevant things. In my case, for the last two years I wasted unnecessary time on things I’m just not competent in (tech startups, engineering, etc). In reality, studying this form of simplification has made me realise what I’m good at:
- Reading
- Analysing
- Decision-making (particularly under pressure)
- Communicating
Now I’ve been able to really roll back to what I’m good at — I can tell you it’s saved me an immeasurable amount of time. No more piss-farting around with startup and tech ideas, unnecessary gadgets, or anything else that I’m just not good at. Just reading, bringing experts to talk about unique areas to improve our performance, and investing in technologies or businesses that further that. At first it’s bloody hard, and I still don’t deviate from investing in new things, I just don’t spend hours wasting time on unnecessary work.
— Automation —
🤖 We’ve built up a considerable amount of AI related links over the last few months
Here’s the most important for keeping on top of what’s happening and what’s applicable to our daily lives. We are ensuring that we keep on top of any changes in this space, particularly as we see this as the area that will destroy labour in favour of capital in the next few years. As a knowledge worker and investor, it’s important to understand how and where:
- Using Darwin to evolve Al ; FASCINATING READ. If you only read one article, this is it.
- Second order consequences of automated EVs. What happens when EV & automation becomes standard? What happens when no one needs to go to the gas station and those second order products are no longer sold? MOST APPLICABLE TO NOW.
- Period Table of AI ; a table of every function of machine intelligence we have
- AI building blocks ; The eggs, the chicken, and the bacon. The problem that people are missing with AI & Automation, is that its a technical problem that needs to be applied to different industries
- Stephen Hawking and Elon Musk backed 23 principles to ensure humanity benefits from AI. From a morality perspective, Sam Harris was part of this group — very important.
- History of AI ; for any newbies
- Natural Language Processing; the new trend area in the AI space. What Deep Learning was a few years ago in terms of popularity. Lots of speculation happening on where the value add is in this space.
Have you seen our competition yet?
As part of launching Uncommon, our new podcast, we’ve got some prizes up our sleeve! So long as you help us 😉
Check below to find out how to win an Apple Watch 2, Kindle Paperwhite or AU$100 Amazon Gift Card:
When we first started playing with the idea of a podcast, we wanted to ensure it was done right. Having seen all of our favourite podcasts launch over the years, we made notes and built a competition to coincide with the launch of the Uncommon podcast that we feel best suits our audience.Our overall objective with the competition is to generate feedback, commentary and a community. The more there is, the better.
The prizes include:
1st prize — Apple Watch 2 — AU$529
2nd prize — Kindle Paperwhite — AU$159
3rd prize — Amazon Gift Card — AU$100
So what do you have to do?
To go into the running for our launch prizes you will need to do the following:
- Search for Uncommon by Neuralle on iTunes, or whichever podcast app you already use. Hit subscribe, and listen to an episode.
- Leave a constructive review on iTunes, or if you’re not an Apple user, Stitcher.
- Subscribe to our newsletter to be the first in the know of new episodes. Make sure you use the same name as you did for the review in Step 2, so we know you are.
- For an extra entry into the competition, like us on Facebook and share the competition post.
For more info on terms, visit neuralle.com/podcast
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