“So the boys missed some school but they read a lot of books. They missed some classes but they made the world their classroom. They were learning to trust their instincts, to follow projects through to conclusion and to lead […]
“Inbal Shani is the chief product officer at GitHub, where she leads core product management, along with product strategy, marketing, open source, and communities, including the development of GitHub Copilot.” Notably Copilot was one of the first big LLM use […]
This isn’t really about Chicago at all, it’s about Colombia. “The small, relatively poor South American country has received four times more Venezuelans than the United States but offers a path to integration. We went to see it.” ~ learn […]
“The perpetrator of Chicago’s first (documented) homicide was not punished, though; in fact, he has a street named after him.” ~ learn more
You might think this is insane and illegal, yet they do it with visible disclosures like: “When you make a contribution, we want you to know that a minimum of 90 cents of every dollar will be dedicated to covering […]
The subhead of this WSJ article can’t resist disclosing that he (Courtney Reum) is Paris Hilton’s brother-in-law, overshadowing his professional accomplishments. ~ learn more
My kids asked me for a scary but not too scary story. The internet delivered this. ~ learn more
“In navigation, dead reckoning is the process of calculating the current position of a moving object by using a previously determined position, or fix, and incorporating estimates of speed, heading (or direction or course), and elapsed time.” ~ learn more
“As a co-founder of The Carlyle Group, one of the globe’s top private equity firms, David’s journey from a Baltimore kid with big dreams to a presidential advisor and business mogul is truly inspiring.” ~ learn more
“Scientists have identified a new member on the genetic family tree of an endangered pupfish native to south-central New Mexico.” They think the origin of the new species is genetic drift, not natural selection. “Genetic drift results from the random […]