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Not all, but much of western society, definitely :)


No. That would be monoculture farming.


Lemme guess, somewhat narrow palate, slightly recessed jaw. Unable to breathe exclusively through the nose during high intensity workout. Possible indications of sleep apnea.

If they're detecting nerve damage, it's happening from nerve compression. Tinnitus being a manifestation of the compressed nerve.

I would bet money rapid palatal expansion with a proper midpalatal suture split would cure you.


Had braces for years, they removed 4 molars, was horrible, now my smile is too narrow, breathing bad, got TMJ, tongue too big for mouth, recessed chin look worse etc.

Why is it that orthodontics used this method? I can see locally it's still only some dentists that seem to use palate expansion when it's seemingly easier, prettier, quicker, healthier etc. than teeth removal + braces?

Thinking about removing my retainers and having a palate expansion done instead as you recommend as i seriously feel like i'm never really getting enough air during sports, sleep etc.

EDIT: This whole reddit thread is quite crazy, full of people having all sorts of issues cured by various methods that classic ortho wont approve: https://www.reddit.com/r/orthotropics/comments/11ow1yb/expan...


That's some internet


You're on the right track


how does nerve damage relate to sleep apnea? doctors have recommended tonsil removal to expand my palate space.

also have tinnitus bte


It doesn't. If you have tinnitus caused by any one or more of the other issues, you likely have sleep apnea on top of it.

Enlarged tonsils themselves are indicative of poor nasal breathing. If you have them completely removed you'll suffer from greatly reduced immune response. You have a fighting chance with intracapsular. Palate expansion through a good Ortho is still probably way better.


> If you have them completely removed you'll suffer from greatly reduced immune response

Citation needed. Every doctor I've talked to said the exact opposite.


I remember that and did contact Everstream for internet service. It was 1000/1000, but they wanted $500 for running the lines from across the street and then $500 per month after that. Insane.


$500 for running the lines under a street isn't too far out of the ordinary (I paid $300 for a longer run, but there was nothing to go under, so the job was easy).

That said, $500/month for service is insane.


That sounds like pricing for a "business-class" Dedicated Internet Access service, with meaningful SLAs and no oversubscription.


Seems to support Randall Carlson's remarks of under set rivers.


This is where the secondary meaning of caste plays a role, which would be just your last name. A caste is your lineage.

In Indian history, certain groups/clans/families were associated with certain jobs. How close those jobs were to the throne or to the Mandir determined your 'rank'.

Fun fact, this is why the last name Singh exists, as a rejection of that system.


Technically we don't know how it was first measured and probably never will. The earliest evidence of the Earth's measurements is the Pyramids and good luck finding out how those were built.


Why are Pyramids the first evidence of Earth’s measurements?


There are crackpots who think the builders of the Great Pyramid knew the size of the Earth. https://www.hallofmaat.com/numerology/a-critique-of-graham-h...


You can get to the absolute dimensions of the pyramid from the crackpot equations though:

https://pasteboard.co/cIMzn8KktEZy.png

https://tobeornottobe.org/the-great-pyramid-intro/math-const...

https://pastebin.com/TsUtcWAa

I just found a great recap on this topic that also fits nicely with the points your link brings up, shedding a better light on the number 43,200 in other cultures (the scaling factor between the pyramid and the earth dimensions for those who TL;DR).

https://fossana.medium.com/the-pyramids-of-giza-have-propert...

It also addresses the fact the speed of light in m/s is encoded three times in the pyramid, twice in the dimensions, in cubits and meters, and another times via the GPS coordinates (yes 3 fucking times !). But how would they know about the duration of a second ? I don't know ! What I know is that 43,200 * 2 = 84,600, the number of seconds in a day.

The thing goes deeper with this man and his investigations of the first edition of Shakespeare's Sonnets.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0xOGeZt71sg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIS-hNrr0-c


I'm not convinced until the pyramids encode the Meter and the Kilogram and Mole. ...in Hex.


make enough measurements and you can probably find those "encoded" there, too


write a program to prove your point.

I'm not saying this with sarcasm. Maybe you could take over my attempts at coming up with a custom set of equations for a pyramid, or any other platonic shape, using symbolic regression / genetic algorithms.

https://pastebin.com/9CEU76K6


"The pyramids give us the dimensions of our planet on a scale defined by the planet itself." - Hancock

It's a bit as if we had never seen a poem and stumble upon some text that harbors rhymes. You'd argue there's no intrinsic link between, say, pickle and tickle, you'd dig in each word etymology to show they wouldn't rhyme in their past forms. And beyond that you would deny the fact words rhymes because they are not in succession, and when I'd point out it's because the rhymes are crossed, you'd laugh it off.

It's not about convincing you (of what ? of some secret intent ? I'm not even sure this is the case). It's about how convincing it is. For that you need to model the cognitive process that interprets these coincidences.

Algorithmic Simplicity and Relevance - Jean-Louis Dessalles

https://telecom-paris.hal.science/hal-03814119/document

4.1 First-order Relevance Relevance cannot be equated with failure to anticipate [16]: white noise is ‘boring’, although it impossible to predict and is thus always ‘surprising’, even for an optimal learner. Our definition of unexpectedness, given by (1), correctly declares white noise uninteresting, as its value s at a given time is hard to describe but also equally hard to generate (since a white noise amounts to a uniform lottery), and therefore U(s) = 0. Following definition (1), some situations can be ‘more than expected’. For instance, if s is about the death last week of a 40-year old woman who lived in a far place hardly known to the observer, then U(s) is likely to be negative, as the minimal description of the woman will exceed in length the minimal parameter settings that the world requires to generate her death. If death is compared with a uniform lottery, then Cw(s) is the number of bits required to ‘choose’ the week of her death: Cw(s)  log2(52×40) = 11 bits. If we must discriminate the woman among all currently living humans, we need C(s) = log2(7×109 ) = 33 bits, and U(s) = 11 – 33 = –22 is negative. Relevant situations are unexpected situations.

s is relevant if U(s) = Cw(s) – C(s) > 0 (2)

Relevant situations are thus simpler to describe than to generate. In our previous example, this would happen if the dying woman lives in the vicinity, or is an acquaintance, or is a celebrity. Relevance is detected either because the world generates a situation that turns out to be simple for the observer, or because the situation that is observed was thought by the observer to be ‘impossible’ (i.e. hard to generate).

In other contexts, some authors have noticed the relation between interestingness and unexpectedness [9, 16], or suggested that the originality of an idea could be measured by the complexity of its description using previous knowledge ([10], p. 545). All these definitions compare the complexity of the actual situation s to some reference, which represents the observer’s expectations. For instance, the notion of randomness deficiency ([8], ch. 4 p. 280) compares actual situation to the output of a uniform lottery. The present proposal differs by making the notion of expectation (here: generation) explicit, and by contrasting its complexity Cw(s) with description complexity C(s).


How about a multi-headed approach. LDMs specializing in certain data operating under one LLM that acts as our point of access?


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