Sometimes I have to look twice when I see a story from The Onion. Some of them, you could actually see happening. A sad indictment of the state of our society and it's news media. Still funny though! :-) - Slippy Lane
"Hannah requires one-on-one care at all times, said her mother, Terry Poling, a nurse and lawyer. The Polings described how Hannah was a normal, verbal toddler until she received several vaccines during a well-baby visit. Within 48 hours of the shots, she developed a high fever and inconsolable crying and refused to walk. She stopped sleeping through the night. Within three months after receiving the vaccine, she began showing signs of autism, including spinning and staring at lights and fans. For a while, she lost her ability to speak." - Brian Rakowski
I TA'd this guy's class. I can summarize it in 30 seconds: You need N hours of sleep per night. If you get less, it adds up as "sleep debt." Eventually, you have to pay it back. Accumulating too much sleep debt degrades cognition and coordination.. - Brian Rakowski
It's surely nonlinear. Does the book include a model for f(previous-debt, tonights-delta) = new-debt? Can you accumulate a surplus? - ⓞnor
I had this same argument with my sister, who also took sleep and dreams from Stanford. I may be stupider, but I have a hard time believing it is strictly cumulative. - Bret Taylor
degrades cognition? wow, i am gonna be so much smarter after I sleep for 26 months straight and get out of sleep debt - j1m
the folk wisdom i always heard was that sleep loss is unrecoverable. kill your alarm clock! - Charles Martin
How does that work? Anyone who pulls more than a few hundred late nights during college is permantently retarded? - j1m
Stupider? Since when am I the smart one??? - Shannon Jiménez
oh my gosh i work for a mobile DJ company, we totally need one of these - DJ Weezy
No, you can't get a surplus. Theoretically, you gotta make it all up. That's why people sleep all day on the weekends. - Brian Rakowski
I can't believe you guys sacrificed sleep to comment on this book. - Tom Stocky
What are you talking about? I'm asleep right now. - ⓞnor
