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Lessons from 3 episodes of fasting for ~44 hours.

Lessons from 3 episodes of fasting for ~44 hours. Recall that the Antifragile likes stochasticity and variability (by Jensens’s Inequality), up to a point. So in order to allow myself to comment on the...

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After a fourth episode of fasting I can…

After a fourth episode of fasting I can corroborate that food is a severe burden on our minds. via After a fourth episode of fasting I can… – Nassim Nicholas Taleb.

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The most important aspect of fasting is that you feel deep undirected...

The most important aspect of fasting is that you feel deep undirected gratitude when you break the fast. — Every human should learn to read, write, respect the weak, disrespect the strong when...

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I am trying to provide a probabilistic structure for fasting…

Friends, for comments. I am trying to provide a probabilistic structure for fasting in nature assuming meal frequency follows a certain power law of various thickness of tails and scale. Assuming that...

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Tomorrow morning starts the grueling Orthodox lent…

Tomorrow morning starts the grueling Orthodox lent. No animal product for 40 days. Note that both Ancient Greeks and Levantine Semites never ate meat without some kind of sacrifice to the God(s),...

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Strength Training is Learning from Tail Events | Medium 11/6/16

Finally, the body is extremely opaque; it is hard to understand the exact physiological mechanisms. So we would like to make sure our methodology is robust and can stand the judgment of time. We have...

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The New Cavemen Lifestyle Has Found a Home in the City – NYTimes.com

Shared by JohnH HatTip to Dave Lull.Context is the Paleo Diet.I first read about Taleb’s approach to health and fitness in this interview he did with Tim Penn....

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