I want to upgrade the bulbs for our truck, and a friend told me it is easy and I can just watch a youtube video to learn. I watched this video. I found this comment very relatable: “Video was great. In no time at all you taught me I need to take my truck and have someone else do it.” ~ learn more
“Anybody can pay a fee to send a message to Freysa, trying to convince it to release all its funds to them. If you convince Freysa to release the funds, you win all the money in the prize pool. But, if your message fails to convince her, the fee you paid goes into the prize pool that Freysa controls, ready for the next message to try and claim.” ~ learn…
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 made more general to also cover weird things seen in space or oceans.” ~ learn more
“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 fuel burn and carbon emissions by 75 percent without any sustainable fuel breakthroughs.” ~ learn more
This 2023 video from Veritasium, a science focused youtube channel, offers a crash course on the topic. ~ learn more
“The Honeycrisp apple was revelatory for me: It was an apple that I truly enjoyed eating on its own. And I did, for several years, until I noticed that the Honeycrisp apples I bought were, with increasing frequency, a miss. There were a few good ones here and there, but I often came across Honeycrisp apples that were dry and mealy.” ~ learn more
“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.” ~ learn more
“Zuckerberg is now seen as a champion of “democratizing tech” among Silicon Valley developers—just two years after he and his company were being questioned, and sometimes mocked, for going all in on the metaverse, and vilified for having contributed to political polarization, extremism, and harming the mental health of teenagers.” ~ learn more
“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 about to discover what happens when algorithms learn to act.” ~ learn more
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 many things in this world follow a Gaussian distribution, including traits that have predictive power when it comes to workplace performance. IQ is Gaussian.” ~ learn more