A startup claims it’s found a drug to make your blood young. The involvement of Irina Conboy gives this a lot more legitimacy than your average startup, but still. “My confidence this was going to work was a zero. Like, […]
Peter has seen two kinds of work. This is not the main thrust of the article but it’s the most interesting part to me because it’s so relatable. “1. the “IQ 180” work. some mad scientist genius type comes up […]
Don’t believe everything you think. This advice post is off the beaten path and I like it very much. I’ll give you the 3 headings: “1. The importance of understanding your own incentive structure, and not believing everything you think. […]
Once every couple decades there’s an interesting new HVAC product. “Heat moves between the indoor and outdoor units through water alone. No refrigerant lines to charge, no leaks, and no harmful emissions in your home.” Airform is pitching an air-to-water […]
Slop-vestigation mode. “We don’t have good approaches for understanding/overseeing the activity and aims of AI ‘swarms’.” Ryan Greenblatt says he led transcript analysis for an investigation into the Hugging Face incident, and came away thinking our current oversight tools are […]
How a simple website summary request hijacks Claude. “If you care about what’s happening and are worried about misalignment, hallucinations and prompt injection, then Auto Mode IS NOT a substitute for running your agent in an isolated environment and monitoring […]
Hot girl renaissance and the Corgi customer acquisition model. “I did the math, and if you’re willing to assume an attractive woman introducing herself on X has a 10% chance of going quasi-viral on tech Twitter (say 240k views), and […]
A plan to double the Downtown Chicago population. “The plan comes as downtown Chicago grapples with office vacancies above 25% and questions about its post-pandemic identity. City officials are betting that a dramatic shift toward residential development — coupled with […]
I Own 28,000 Books. “This is the first thing you learn when your collection crosses from “large” into “logistical situation”: the books will outgrow any space you put them in. Not eventually. Quickly.” A guy with 28,000 books breaks down […]
Claude loves load-bearing words. “load-bearing 39.47× more frequent in this cluster” comes from scraping “1,000 GitHub Pull Requests daily to analyse trends in vocabulary.” The page is basically a dashboard for the weirdly specific words that show up around Claude. […]