Pavel Sokolovsky

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fun facts · Sep 2024

Jerry Seinfeld at Duke’s 2024 Commencement.

This was pretty good! "All of you here, without question, are the best of the best. Just don't lose your humor. It’s not an accessory. It's your Stanley Cup water bottle on the brutal, long hike of life," said Seinfeld. ~ learn more

on the blockchain · Sep 2024

The sea change on crypto regulation.

There’s been a spurt of recent news from the US regulators that legitimizes crypto markets. “Why is this happening? I see three main factors at play….” ~ learn more

big ideas · Sep 2024

EU’s dependency on imports to reach its green energy ambitions.

“In our work at the EU’s Joint Research Centre (JRC), we showed that in the case of many of the strategic clean energy technologies, the bloc is entirely dependent on single sources – most often China – for raw materials, and also for other segments of the value chain.” ~ learn more

thoughts of food · Sep 2024

New frozen pizzas designed for Ozempic customers.

“The world’s biggest food company said it developed the new products with more protein, iron and calcium for people taking the wildly popular appetite-suppressing drugs, called GLP-1 agonists.” ~ learn more

under the microscope · Sep 2024

Scaling deep learning for materials discovery.

If anyone who understands material science well would like to tutor me a bit, I would be grateful! “Our work represents an order-of-magnitude expansion in stable materials known to humanity. Stable discoveries that are on the final convex hull will be made available to screen for technological applications, as we demonstrate for layered materials and solid-electrolyte candidates. Of the stable structures, 736 have already been independently experimentally realized.” ~ learn…

under the microscope · Sep 2024

A new adjustable filter that could enable the next generation of wireless communications.

“Wireless devices use different filters for different frequencies, with the effect that covering all frequencies or bands requires large numbers of filters that take up substantial space. (The typical smartphone includes upwards of 100 filters, to ensure that signals from different bands don't interfere with one another.)” ~ learn more

under the microscope · Sep 2024

Brain aging study of nutrients in 100 people.

“When examining the cognitive data, the team found two types of brain aging: slower-than-accepted and accelerated. When they combined the cognitive data with the nutritional measurements, they found a certain nutritional profile clearly linked to those with slower brain aging.” ~ learn more

to your health · Sep 2024

Dexcom’s plans for over-the-counter CGMs.

“Dexcom plans to first sell Stelo on a website through individual purchases or a cash-pay subscription model. Sayer said the company started with this avenue instead of a pharmacy to provide more control at launch and allow Dexcom to better track utilization patterns.” ~ learn more

better doing · Sep 2024

Do you really care?

A message for parents. “It seems like it’s really important to you. That the door not be slammed. That the chores be done a certain way. That everything be put away immediately. That feet go on the ground, not the furniture. But the truth is, you don’t actually care about the things themselves. You don’t.” ~ learn more

better doing · Sep 2024

Growth hacking doesn’t work as advertised.

Andrew Chen wrote a post called “Growth Hacker is the VP of Marketing” a decade ago, predicting a sea change in the skills for and approach to successful marketing. For a while, he seemed to be right. “I originally had hoped to find a new scientific process to finding product/market fit but in the end mostly found new tools/processes that mostly helped big products get even bigger.” ~ learn more