big ideas

UFOs are now UAPs, and there are many.

The DoD just released its latest report. “To avoid half a century’s worth of baggage, the government avoided the term “UFO,” rebranding sightings as Unidentified Anomalous Phenomena (UAP). The A in the new name originally stood for “Aerial,” but was […]

big ideas

Cargo airships are happening.

“Airship Industries is designing its vehicle to dominate transoceanic air freight. It checks all the right boxes. It shortens end-to-end freight delivery time. It lowers freight handling costs, delays, and breakage. It’s highly profitable on a unit basis. It lowers […]

under the microscope

Real-time inflammation monitoring.

“A Chicago biomedical research hub backed by Facebook creator Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Dr. Priscilla Chan, has produced its first published research — on discovering a way to monitor inflammation in real time using sensors implanted under the skin.” […]

tech, startups, internet

The year algorithms learn to act.

“In the bustling tech campuses of 2024, the age of passive AI – systems that merely respond to our queries – is giving way to something far more profound: the era of AI agents. As we look to 2025, we’re […]

better doing

Is employee performance really Gaussian distributed?

Spoiler — nope. “The unspoken first step here was to assume a Gaussian bell curve when it comes to employee performance. And, heck, why not? The folks in HR who were paying attention during psychology class recall that a great […]

tech, startups, internet

There is no scaling wall.

“I actually don’t believe we are at all hitting walls in our space… the combination of the data that exists in the world, synthetic data, and search techniques are, I think, going to allow us to scale for quite some […]