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PART 1: Building the Structure 20240520 - 1. Building Foundations Foundation vs Footing Footing comprises of slab, rebar which are made of brickwork, masonry or concrete. Footing is part of foundation. Foundation types comprise piles, caissons, footings, piers, the lateral supports, and anchors. https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/basic-differences-among-foundation-footing-g-k/ My home is with crawlspace foundation(p 26, Strip and stump footing system ) and permanent wood foundation wall(p 34, cladding) Finally find the reason of the drainage water outside of my house! It's water controlling for Permanent Wood Foundations(PWFs)! (p48) Don't really like PWFs, although it works. 20240531 - 2. Framing Floors, Walls, and Ceilings Most of the "code" and "tip" are based on common sense. The key is too keep everything upright, and make sure the loading is spread across large area to avoid damage the bearing parts. AGI can easily allow users to build their 3D house in co

20240623 - Introduction: A Grandmother’s Prayer The limit of human's lifespan didn't change much in the past 500 years, although science and technology exploded. That's normal. Any great change is not linear. Will this change happen in the next 30 to 50 years? Part I: What We Know (The Past) 20240624 - Chapter 1. ‘Viva Primordium’ Sirtuins, mTOR, AMPK. When will they be available on market? Why is low-protein diets good? 20240626 - Chapter 2. The Demented Pianist Information Theory of Ageing. Is it correct? I think so. This book is good. Definitely worth reading. If it has 0.1% of probability to be correct. Much more precise instruments are needed to monitor the DNA changes at molecular level. Powerful AI computers are needed to emulate and analyze them! 20240707 - Chapter 3. The Blind Epidemic I think ageing is not a virus, but a clip of our gene, which appeared from the very beginning of lives. It helps us to evolve faster. It's not virus being passed down to offsprin

20240525 - Prologue: The hand you are dealt face down 20240608 - Infidelity This book is one level higher than "The Game". How to build healthy relationship in spite of the restriction of biological restriction of males? Based on game theory, female needs commitment from male to breed children, and male doesn't want that. Male want to take advantage of the disadvantage of female. The conflicts are inevitable. "Self-deprecation is still self-worship. It's the flip side of the same coin. It's still about self." "Remember that humor is a wall. It's a form of denial, just the same as repression, rationalization, globalization, and minimization." p85 Any time you overreact to something - by shutting down, losing your temper, sulking, feeling hopeless, freaking out, disassociating, or any of numerous other dysfunctional behaviors - it's typically because an old would has been triggered. p89 Our intelligence come from our past experience, whic

20240505 - Foreword by Nassim Nicholas Taleb ix Never underestimate the effect of absence of feedback on the unconscious behavior and choices of people. p xii Screen and computer games give us instant gratification, which create illusion that we are growing. Most of the real progress don't give us instant feedback. Then how can we measure it? Things that are good but don't look good must have some edge. pxiii How can we tell what are good? PART ONE: WHAT COMES FIRST 1 20240508 - Chapter One: AT WAR WITH LUCK 3 You can't just diversify that risk away with groupings of things that supposedly won't experience such loss simultaneously. p9 A rising tide lifts all boats. A falling tide sinks all ships. Don't put all eggs in one basket --- this doesn't work. A safe haven isn't so much a thing or an asset. It is a payoff, one that can take many different forms. p9 How can lay investors do it cost effectively? We need to control what we can control in a way that gets

20230915 - Prologue: muse of fire Do we have to sacrifice some virtues to make huge success? In "Selfish Gene" and game theory, the one who want to play fairly can only get slightly above average return. Asset, power and fame are like a building. No matter how high the building is, it only takes very short time to collapse. Unless the adventure itself is the main goal, unless we really enjoy the pain and happiness come with the journey, we'd like to lose ourselves in the pursue of our aim. 20230916 - Adventures Gene and home education are both critical. How about environment? Friends when we are little? If we have siblings, then friends are not that important. Errol Musk's emerald processing business are destroyed by artifical emerald from Russia?! How many Black Swans are hiding around us? 20230916 - A mind of his own: Pretoria, the 1970s Elon Musk is an unique genius.  1. In his eyes, most of people are quite dumb, and he didn't know how to hide that feeling whe

20231216 - Preface xiii Where does Liberty come from? It comes from cooperation and balance. Divide up the work and cooperate lead to professions, which bring us high productivity. Balance (checks and balances on power) make this social cooperation sustainable. 20231219 - Chapter 1 How Does History End? 1 It should not be called "corridor". There are four stages of human society: Warre, The cage of norms (Absent), Despotic, and Shackled Leviathans. Warre is not stable. I think it would evolve into the cage of norms in dozens of years. The cage of norms is stable. Likely the countryside area of India. Despotic Leviathans represents oligarchy countries. Shackled Leviathans represents democracy countries. I believe that only Despotic Leviathans can be turned into Shackled Leviathans. One of the most important factor is serious external threat. I am curious that whether the authors would discuss political correctness in this book? I think it's one of the major challenge of de