Pavel Sokolovsky

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on the blockchain · Jun 2024

Martin Shkreli launched a crypto token?

“Martin Shkreli, also known as "Pharma Bro," claims he and Barron Trump created the DJT token after initially denying involvement.” ~ learn more

fun facts · Jun 2024

Dead reckoning.

“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

fun facts · Jun 2024

Purple gorilla story.

My kids asked me for a scary but not too scary story. The internet delivered this. ~ learn more

oh, chicago · Jun 2024

The story behind Chicago’s first murder.

“The perpetrator of Chicago’s first (documented) homicide was not punished, though; in fact, he has a street named after him.” ~ learn more

oh, chicago · Jun 2024

What Colombia can teach Chicago about managing a migrant wave.

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 more

tech, startups, internet · Jun 2024

GitHub’s CPO on the future of AI in software development.

“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 cases that took off, even before ChatGPT. ~ learn more

better doing · Jun 2024

The Wright brothers missed a lot of school.

“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 their own education.” ~ learn more

under the microscope · Jun 2024

From seashells to cement, nature inspires tougher building material.

“The most significant results were observed in the beams with completely separated hexagonal tablets, which are similar to nacre. These beams exhibited 19 times the ductility and 17 times the fracture toughness while retaining nearly the same strength as the solid cement paste beam.” ~ learn more