Ramp down the AI rhetoric. “This is all complete nonsense.” Geohot argues the fear narrative around AI is toxic, and that the real move is to stop playing zero sum status games and “Go create value for others and don’t […]
How Al content detectors work. GPTZero says it “was one of the first AI detectors to pioneer the idea of using ‘perplexity’ and ‘burstiness’ to evaluate writing.” The piece explains why being consistent, typo free, or just writing technical prose […]
Peptides are endogenous signals. “What makes peptides interesting is that they are endogenous signaling molecules and our body naturally produces over 7,000 of them to regulate every major biological system.” Max Marchione responds to Martin Shkreli’s skeptical take by arguing […]
Armpit thumbnails win. “if the thumbnail showed the woman’s armpit that the views would oftentimes 5-10x” A guy ran A/B tests on AI UGC ads and ended up with a weird theory about exposed body language and clicks. ~ learn […]
Not a page builder. Bookmarking for the next time I moonlight as a web designer. “Section Store adds sections directly to your existing theme, so you can keep working in Shopify’s native editor.” It’s a marketplace of 700+ Shopify theme […]
Never trust The Science™. “Once you’re savvy to all of this and you get into the habit of reading papers in full (yes, methods and supplementary data too), then these lenses through which the data are distorted become very obvious […]
Unlocking a taxpayer-funded dataset. “Microfiche is so old that most of you don’t even know what it is.” Cremieux Recueil digitized and organized the National Collaborative Perinatal Project, a 60,000 pregnancy cohort that was effectively trapped in film scans, and […]
The ocean becomes the construction crew. “AI-optimized underwater structures grew more than 90 feet of new beach in six months, not by pumping sand or pouring concrete, but by programming the ocean to deposit it.” The idea is to use […]
Banned in California. “If I wanted to build a new car factory, I literally couldn’t paint the cars.” An interactive visualization of the industrial processes effectively banned by California ~ learn more
Naked swim class. “What seemed perfectly normal to one generation often becomes head-shaking at the very least and scarcely believable to later generations.” A writer remembers mandatory nude swimming in mid-1960s high school gym class, and the odd logistics that […]