Elephants have names for each other. “When the researchers played a clip to an elephant of their friend or family member calling out their name, the animal reacted positively and “energetically” and moved towards the speaker, the researchers said. But […]
Reviving a modular cargo bike design from the 1930s. “The Brilliant Kûter cargo bike design offered a swappable front end to carry everything from mail bags to milk cans.” You may remember that I’m into cargo bikes these days. ~ […]
Owls in towels. We’ve been reading Panchatantra (an ancient Indian collection of interrelated animal fables) at bed time and the owls come up a lot. Did you know that they are blind during the day and eat other birds at […]
Notion invited Wired reporter to vibe code on their code base. Anything to help get the free media impressions, I suppose! “I spent two days at Notion and saw an industry in upheaval. I also shipped some actual code.” ~ […]
We’re in the Groupon Era of AI. Remember when Groupon exploded with a new business model spurring on countless competitors (including in China)? Tom Tunguz writes that AI feels eerily similar right now. The rapid adoption of AI mirrors Groupon’s […]
Anki is already dead. “Anki’s fatal flaw is that you think you are learning content, but you’re actually just memorizing rectangles.” The article argues that static Anki cards aren’t aligned with natural human learning processes and suggests dynamic methods using […]
Curing your AI 10x engineer imposter syndrome. I think the danger of adopting this writer’s point of view is that one stops looking around and eventually does miss the boat. “A few months ago I went through a bit of […]
‘Superagers’ seem to share this one key personality trait. “The new paper shows that the brains of superagers share a host of characteristics that may allow them to retain their cognitive function. And while there’s still much to understand about […]
Selling on Amazon boosts your direct sales too. I like to read these “scientific” points about improving online performance. Often they’re based on thin data and contrived studies. But that’s the nature of online A/B testing anyway! This study provided […]
Failures to understand how everyday objects work. “The results demonstrate that most people’s conceptual understanding of this familiar, everyday object is sketchy and shallow, even for information that is frequently encountered and easily perceived.” ~ learn more