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If anything, and under the right dosage, sugar is protective.
But can't blame all on sugar, since some processed foods and lean meats (!) promote that cycle as well. So the best way to avoid it is by not overeating.
I agree with you though, that since it's difficult not to overeat when abusing simple sugars, most folks will do better without them.
People on ketogenic diets and below maintenance calorie intakes end up reporting high levels of LDL, with high levels of HDL to balance it out. Now, give them a hundred more calories above maintenance and things start to get funny.
Calories in vs calories out might be an oversimplified model, but so is blaming everything on insulin as Taubes does, as he still believes it's the only factor promoting fat storage.
> I'm confident this post has actually done a disservice to the question why should we eat less carbs, but hopefully it's something you might find interesting and read more about and maybe change your opinion on.
Been there, done that. I've been in keto for years until I crashed. Not anymore.
Doesn't it?
The only issue with sugars are the null effect on satiety and promotion of binge eating. The reason some folks work so well on lowcarb diets is because sugars make it easy to overeat, but that's just a way to create a caloric deficit for them.
Now, I bet most folks here on HN are much more quantitative oriented than the average person, so why limiting yourself to a small set of foods (paleo, keto), when you can free yourself and get away eating pretty much whatever you want, as long as you track the calorie intake?
I have a daily intake of 400g of carbohydrates. According to you I'd be overwheight and dying of diabetes, cancer, metabolic syndrome and whatnot.
Exercise daily, provide adequate protein intake and watch out the calories. That's it. No need to blame food but yourselves.
You're all being gamed by a flashy calendar.
What you really need is to lay off the twitters and the instagrams.
In this regard Practical Common Lisp is a killer book. Definitely one of my favorites. It's really a pity that there aren't many other books mimicking its style (recommendations are welcome).
What I really miss for this purpose is having some kind of live doc feature.
Then you can move to a discrete math book like Discrete Mathematics with Applications or Mathematics for Computer Science (free pdf courses.csail.mit.edu/6.042/fall10/mcs-ftl.pdf) and any Calculus book of your liking.
There are also great resources to learn Math using Haskell. I'm working through The Haskell Road to Logic, Maths and Programming and it's proving to be great http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Books_and_tutorials/Mathe...
At the moment I'm using Emacs with EVIL (Vim layer) and loving it. You should check it out :)
I wouldn't recommend that course at all and I would even rate it as an utter failure.
It is not aimed to people with basic programming skills. The code snippets mostly consist of complex, clever one-liners and the examples are bit unfortunate.
You just need to take a look at the forums and see the prevailing discontent. Folks who had just completed CS101 were just not able to get past the very first units. And instead of addressing this problem, they just apologized and (rightly) ranked the course under the advanced category!
He'll be better off reading PAIP. Which is an excellent, timeless book. And still the best way to learn Common Lisp IMO.
Norvig has all the potential to be an excellent teacher, but he should stay away from mentoring introductory courses.