Pavel Sokolovsky

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tech, startups, internet · Apr 2025

Augie, the first collaborative AI teammate for logistics.

I have no idea if this is good but it sure sounds good. “What exactly does Augie do? Augie can read/write documents, respond to emails, make calls and receive calls, log into systems, do data entry and document uploads. Christina can assign the heavy load of tedious work to Augie, leaving Christina in the drivers seat on the important stuff.” ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet · Apr 2025

The AI Scientist generates its first peer-reviewed scientific publication.

“Critically, the AI-generated papers we submitted were entirely generated end-to-end by AI, without any modifications from humans. The AI Scientist-v2 came up with the scientific hypothesis, proposed the experiments to test the hypothesis, wrote and refined the code to conduct those experiments, ran the experiments, analyzed the data, visualized the data in figures, and wrote every word of the entire scientific manuscript, from the title to the final reference, including…

fun facts · Apr 2025

Fire Island: new urbanist paradise or NIMBY success?

“On its face, Fire Island is a “New Urbanist” paradise. It’s left me with no doubt that walkable mixed-use neighborhoods3 are incredible, especially ones like Fire Island which have banned cars. But it’s also deeply conservative in many ways: highly insular, does not approve any new housing, and has pretty strict rules.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2025

Corey Booker’s Oura ring data from his 25-hour senate speech.

“Even though he stood for much of the speech, Booker's ring picked up a ton of movement. Between March 31 and April 1, Booker's ring tracked him taking over 20,000 steps, with 12,000 alone on the second day. After he hit a wall during the third hour of the speech and felt his feet go numb, Booker says he knew he needed to start moving.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Apr 2025

The ‘largest illicit online marketplace’ ever.

“Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions.” ~ learn more

on the blockchain · Apr 2025

Fixing the internet.

“zkTLS isn’t just cool tech, it’s the best path towards fixing the internet today. It fundamentally changes the laws of physics of the internet.” This is just a tweet, but you can follow the rabbit down the hole. I suspect this could be one of those all-of-a-sudden-huge technologies in the future. ~ learn more

thoughts of food · Apr 2025

H-Mart stays winning.

“Kwon’s go-to market strategy was straightforward: sell Asian goods (rice cookers, aluminum-lined ramen pots, meats, seafood, vegetables) in neighbourhoods that didn’t sell them. In the first 15 years, H-Mart followed that formula to open five stores across New York and New Jersey. H-Mart’s 6th location was when the real expansion began.” ~ learn more

under the microscope · Apr 2025

New materials pulls carbon from air using changes in humidity.

“The paper demonstrates the significance of a material's pore size (pockets of space within porous materials where carbon dioxide can nestle) in predicting its power to capture carbon. The engineers argue this type of research will support the development of design principles to improve performance by modifying a material's structure.” ~ learn more

to your health · Apr 2025

New dietary guidelines aim to optimize public health, not personal health.

Peter Attia discusses the newest US nutrition guidelines. “Federal guidelines on nutrition are intended to promote health and fitness at the national population level, largely as a means of reducing the burden on the healthcare system. The best way to accomplish this goal is to raise the health of those on the lower end of the population’s health spectrum, as these are the individuals who have the greatest room for…

better doing · Apr 2025

Sometimes papers contain obvious lies.

“The authors of scientific papers often say one thing and find another; they concoct a story around a set of findings that they might not have even made, or which they might have actually even contradicted. This happens surprisingly often, and it’s a very serious issue for a few reasons. For example…” ~ learn more