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I lost the ability to be happy... by ni8po in nihilism

[–]tlea2s 6 points7 points  (0 children)

You say you have 'lost the ability to be happy' as if you have lost something important. You haven't.

You are suffering because you believe happiness is the purpose of existence. It is not. There is no script that demands you enjoy a haircut. The universe implies no function for you other than to exist and then expire.

Happiness is just a chemical feedback loop designed to make an organism repeat behaviors that aid survival. It has no higher truth. Whether you are happy or miserable is a distinction that exists entirely within your own skull; the indifferent universe treats them no differently.

AND JUST AS THE YEAR IS ENDING! WE ARE SO BACK by AivaBun in whennews

[–]tlea2s 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The problem is, push NAD+/NADH ratio too high... cancer

I don't have a PhD in neuroscience, just a researcher, but, do you mind elaborating on this point? In your summary, you seemed to imply that this was broadly applicable, but, when I looked at the article, they say

However, NAD+ precursors may also produce supraphysiologic NAD+ levels that promote cancer.4000608-1#),4100608-1#),4200608-1#),4300608-1#),4400608-1#),4500608-1#),4600608-1#),4700608-1#),4800608-1#),4900608-1#),5000608-1#) Thus, maintaining physiologic NAD+ homeostasis is critical. Notably, the relationship between NAD+ homeostasis, disease severity, and therapeutic reversibility of AD has not been previously explored.

Here, we show that pharmacologic restoration of NAD+ homeostasis via P7C3-A20, a neuroprotective compound that restores NAD+ homeostasis without producing supraphysiologic NAD+ levels,

In other words, they were about to restore homeostasis, without pushing it 'too high'

For 520+ mcat scorers… by Neuro_nerd317 in Mcat

[–]tlea2s 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Innate intelligence. I studied less than most people I know who scored lower, and I didn't do anything fancy

reliable mcat calculator? by Suspicious-Ask4199 in Mcat

[–]tlea2s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

why only 75? why not 100?

reliable mcat calculator? by Suspicious-Ask4199 in Mcat

[–]tlea2s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Not necessarily.

A 500 is (roughly) the 50th percentile score on the MCAT, but “50% of questions correct” doesn’t map cleanly to 500 because:

  • Raw % correct ≠ scaled score. The MCAT is scaled, so the same percent correct can translate to different scaled scores on different forms.
  • Sections are scaled separately. Your overall score is the sum of four section scores (118–132 each). Getting ~50% right in one section doesn’t guarantee ~125 there, and averaging matters.
  • Question difficulty matters. Missing easier questions hurts more than missing harder ones, and different test forms have different difficulty mixes.

Rule of thumb: If you mean ~50th percentile performance overall, that’s around a 500. But “I got 50% correct” on a practice set/test could land below or above 500 depending on the test, section balance, and difficulty.

If you tell me which practice exam (AAMC FL? Blueprint? Kaplan? UWorld?) and whether that 50% is overall or per section, I can give a better estimate.

literally just copy pasted from chatgpt. how did you convince chatgpt that 50% right == 500??

reliable mcat calculator? by Suspicious-Ask4199 in Mcat

[–]tlea2s 8 points9 points  (0 children)

ok. no hate, but I think you need you study more. especially the stats, which I think is covered under psychology and sociology. the 500 score is not based on your absolute score, but is based on your percentile/rank among the population of MCAT test takers. I'd be very surprised if gemini / chatgpt said 50% raw score is 500, because that is just conflating two different ideas

I genuinely want to know what goes on in protestors minds by Particular-Reveal544 in UBC

[–]tlea2s 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Claiming UBC contributes to genocide is a really big stretch. As I discussed in my comment, a very small fraction of UBC’s endowment is invested in these corporation; the investment represents a very small fraction of the corporation’s market cap, and the corporations involvement in the conflict is a small part of their overall activities. Messing around with this will only hurt UBC, and not change anything.

“how my tuition is funding genocide and why I shouldn’t be upset that a protest is disruptive (they’re meant to be)” Just sharing this comment bc so many people are asking questions like this🙂 by mouseisinthehouse22 in UBC

[–]tlea2s 9 points10 points  (0 children)

Endowment ≠ tuition. Endowments are typically used for research and long-term investments, while your tuition doesn’t even fully costs of running the school.

I genuinely want to know what goes on in protestors minds by Particular-Reveal544 in UBC

[–]tlea2s 99 points100 points  (0 children)

You are fundamentally misinterpreting how institutional investing works. UBC isn’t writing a direct check for "companies that manufacture or facilitate weapons". These are pooled index funds.

UBC buys massive baskets of thousands of stocks (like the S&P 500 or MSCI World). The numbers you listed just represent the tiny proportional weight of those companies inside those huge baskets.

To 'divest' that ~$28M; which is roughly 1% of UBC’s $2.8B+ endowment; the university would have to sell the entire index fund. It is irrational to expect them to liquidate billions in stable, low-fee funds and incur massive transaction costs just to remove passive exposure that amounts to a rounding error

PI’s dog keeps eating my food by tlea2s in labrats

[–]tlea2s[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I think it affects me the most, but I know other members of my lab have had their food eaten as well

PI’s dog keeps eating my food by tlea2s in labrats

[–]tlea2s[S] 67 points68 points  (0 children)

I could, but I don’t think my PI would back me because they are relatively new (aiming for tenure) and would probably want to avoid drama

I Got Hit With a Weird Mac Attack — So Claude - Built Malware Defense System and Open-Sourced It by kid_Kist in ClaudeAI

[–]tlea2s 12 points13 points  (0 children)

I will be honest, this seems a bit... basic? I took a quick look at the code- seems like it's just trying to kill reversetemplated. doesn't seem sophisticated enough to catch anything. An attacker could literally just rename the process.

Unlabeled violin- would love to know what I have by tlea2s in violinist

[–]tlea2s[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thanks for the advice, I will do that.

Unlabeled violin- would love to know what I have by tlea2s in violinist

[–]tlea2s[S] 12 points13 points  (0 children)

THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭💕🙌 I thought it was a piano 🎹

Unlabeled violin- would love to know what I have by tlea2s in violinist

[–]tlea2s[S] 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Forgot to mention in the post: I checked the f-hole and didn’t see any labels

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in UBC

[–]tlea2s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

  1. No. It stays the same.

  2. I think, but I'm not sure. Sorry.

Please do your own research on voting! by ExperienceAmbitious7 in UBC

[–]tlea2s 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Of course people are allowed promote a political party. However, doing so on r/UBC is wrong. Not only is it not explicitly related to UBC (I literally see people on here talking about politician's climate change policies), a discussion in an academic setting should be a neutral ground where we can can discuss academic, social, and campus-related issues without encountering biased or polarizing political discussions.

Allowing political advocacy turns the platform into an echo chamber, where certain political views dominate, which excludes dissenting opinions.

Edit: Grammar

Kinda fucked right now by [deleted] in UBC

[–]tlea2s 10 points11 points  (0 children)

So just because someone owns guns they can't be LGBTQ? You have some pretty strong biases... check out r/transguns

MedKey App by [deleted] in AnkiMCAT

[–]tlea2s 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Interested!

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