As I get older, I identify less as my current state and I identify more as a person who transitions through states. My change in perspective has reduced my anxieties and anger significantly. “This too shall pass” vibes. The more my self image is focused on superficial things, the more I will take things personally. What I am angry about tends to be a reflection of myself more than the current state of affairs.

I don’t believe in reincarnation but it is a helpful thought experiment to think about what benefits and drawbacks your particular incarnation of life holds and how those might be different if you were incarnated elsewhere.

Most of the human body is made up of water (hydrogen and oxygen atoms). At the centre of each hydrogen atom is an even smaller particle called a proton. Protons are like tiny magnets and are very sensitive to magnetic fields.

When you lie under the powerful scanner magnets, the protons in your body line up in the same direction, in the same way that a magnet can pull the needle of a compass.

Short bursts of radio waves are then sent to certain areas of the body, knocking the protons out of alignment. However, when the radio waves are turned off, the protons realign and send out radio signals, picked up by the MRI receivers. These signals provide information about the exact location of the protons in the body.

They also help to distinguish between the various types of tissue in the body, because the protons in different types of tissue realign at different speeds and produce distinct signals. More here.

I was pretty excited to watch $INTC ‘s Architecture day yesterday – very cool upcoming parts. Intel is definitely coming back…. then I watched $TSLA ‘s AI day… OMG… How will others compete with them on any autonomy use case? 👇Thread

— Pierre Ferragu (@p_ferragu) August 20, 2021

In the course of a long life, Henry Cavendish made a string of significant discoveries —among much else he was the first person to isolate hydrogen and the first to combine hydrogen and oxygen to form water — but almost nothing he did was entirely divorced from strangeness. To the continuing exasperation of his fellow scientists, he often alluded in published work to the results of contingent experiments that he had not told anyone about.

In his secretiveness he didn’t merely resemble Newton, but actively exceeded him. His experiments with electrical conductivity were a century ahead of their time, but unfortunately remained undiscovered until that century had passed. Indeed the greater part of what he did wasn’t known until the late nineteenth century when the Cambridge physicist James Clerk Maxwell took on the task of editing Cavendish’s papers, by which time credit had nearly always been given to others.