The brain science of obesity.
A TED talk given by researcher (and Novo Nordisk employee?) Mads Tang-Christensen in September 2021, before most of us had ever heard of GLP-1. ~ learn more
A TED talk given by researcher (and Novo Nordisk employee?) Mads Tang-Christensen in September 2021, before most of us had ever heard of GLP-1. ~ learn more
An episode of the Tim Ferris Show from November 2021. Doerr is the famous investor who backed Larry & Sergey with the biggest check his firm had ever written when they were 24 years old without a business model. He taught them a goal setting process that seems to have worked! Now his goal is getting the world to Net Zero carbon emissions by 2050. ~ learn more
I found this interesting in the context of John Doerr’s talk of future climate refugees. Maybe these problems help alleviate on another to some extetent? The bank “has warned that the country’s economy will need around 24 million migrant workers until 2053 if the pension system is to remain sustainable.” ~ learn more
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
“Whenever I see one of those ‘here’s my workspace’ posts with the perfect photos of a sleek, clean, and pristine desk, I vom a little.” I do not have a messy desk, but that’s only because I have not had a desk for several years. ~ learn more
We have recently cleaned up a poison ivy outgrowth in our alley without goats. Next time, we’ll call in the A-team! ~ learn more
“Understanding and interpreting phase diagrams. Created by Sal Khan.” ~ learn more
Here’s a story about a, “ Chicago-based scheme that staged armed robberies so the purported victims could apply for U.S. immigration visas reserved for legitimate crime victims.” ~ learn more
“To dramatically oversimplify the internet, every product on the Internet is just one of two things…” I didn’t realize it at the start of my career, but one reason lots of other businesses didn’t make sense to me is because I have always lived in a ‘money sink’ environment. ~ learn more
This research makes the claim that using “Chain of Thought” prompting for LLMs does not generalize. I consider this evidence of LLM limitations (at least for now?). “This spotlights drawbacks of chain of thought, especially because of the sharp tradeoff between possible performance gains and the amount of human labor necessary to generate examples with correct reasoning traces.” ~ learn more