Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Is oxidative stress, during sleep, killing you?

Can't sleep? Suffer from insomnia? Get agitated when lying in bed?

Ever heard of Pavlov and how he trained his dogs to salivate at the sound of a bell? He managed to train the dogs involuntary response, where they associated food with the ring of a bell, and the unconscious mind would trigger salivation.

Ponder another scenario. If every night, during sleep, someone grabbed your neck and started restricting airflow. A fight/flight response would be created, right? Question, if this happened every night, would the unconcious mind associate your bed with the fight/flight response. And you, the sleeper, have no idea this involuntary association is being created in the unconscious mind.

Oxidative stress, UARS (upper airway restriction), etc. are very real phenomenon. Unconscious conditioning/training is also very real.

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UARS is harder to detect/measure, see this blog for the details.

To learn more about unconscious associations/training we unwittingly do, buy a Dreem2 EEG headset and take the advanced course.

Happy sleeping!

Sunday, December 20, 2020

Software development, are we doing something wrong? Check out the New York Stock Exchange, NYSE Pillar.

At risk of oversimplifying, something worth noting. Since the beginning of man, from an engineering perspective, we have made the biggest jumps when building tools which are used to build other tools. Why shouldn't the same thing apply to software. Why not write systems which generate other systems, etc. etc.?
NYSE Pillar, arguably one of the most critical systems on the planet, was built this way. The brains behind it? Alexei Lebedev. I had the privilege of observing this feat while working at Intercontinental Exchange, when it purchased the New York Stock Exchange.
Interested in seeing the goodies? Think we should have an open source framework? Merry Christmas, see OpenACR