48 out of 54 avocado oil-labeled products failed the test. “Numerous studies have demonstrated that products marketed as avocado oil may be partially or wholly substituted with lower-cost vegetable oils or refined oils, resulting in mislabeling and economic adulteration.” This […]
A natural peptide that makes erections 56% harder. “Kisspeptin administration resulted in a significant increase in penile tumescence over the course of an 8-minute sexual video compared with placebo.” In a small double-blind crossover RCT (32 men with HSDD), the […]
All living things emit a faint glow. Seeing the mouse images was “a defining moment”, says Daniel Oblak. Living mice gave off a ghostly glow in a dark chamber, and when the team re-imaged them after death, “the glow had […]
Peter Attia on the popular peptides craze. My summary: he’s not into it! Especially not BPC-157. Frankly he forced me to re-investigate and there’s less support for the mechanism of action than I had believed. “If you’re putting something into […]
Compression is prediction. “Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem…” Based on my read of this post, I am reasonable confident that I don’t really understand modern compression. ~ learn more
Magic is in the multiples. “why the ‘magic is in the multiples,’” is how Harvard Business School professors Ruback and Yudkoff summarize the whole game of buying small businesses (“Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition”) well. This episode is a tight refresher on […]
The Al energy bottleneck, with Tim Fist. This is a fantastically detailed podcast conversation. “Building new transmission lines permitting for that is an absolute nightmare.” The episode gets very concrete about why AI scaling runs into boring physical constraints like […]
The output is the watermark. The text that your Claude AI agent spits out has a hidden watermark, but it’s not added to the output. Instead, “the watermark is baked into the token selection itself!” It uses “key/context-derived sampling” so […]
Cards Against Humanity are great marketers, just like Elon. “We have forced Elon Musk to get the fuck off our land, and now it’s time to build something on it, a monument to remind Musk that he’s a sad little […]
How a simple request for Al to book a gym class exposed a major threat. “Bad news — I can’t add them back,” the AI agent replied after it tested a gym booking API by cancelling someone else’s reservation. It […]