The Body Fat Setpoint, Part III: Dietary Causes of Obesity

[2013 update: I've edited this post to remove elements that I feel were poorly supported.  I now think that changes in the setpoint are at least partially secondary to passive overconsumption of calories, particularly low quality calories]What Caused the Setpoint to Change?We have two criteria to narrow our search for the cause of modern fat gain:It has to be new to the human environmentAt some point, it has to cause leptin resistance or otherwise...

On image labelling

Labelling data is a labourous side task that arises in most computer vision projects. Since the developers usually don't want to spend their time for such a dumb work, there exist a number of workarounds. Let me enumerate some I've heard of:At Academia, the task of labelling is usually being endured on [PhD] students' broad shoulders. The funny part is the students are not always enrolled in the relevant project. At Graphics & Media Lab, students...