“The new study reveals a statistically significant reduction in HRV in response to grammatical violations. This reduction reflects the extent of the grammatical violations, suggesting that the more errors a person hears, the more regular their heartbeat becomes—a sign of […]
“The name is a reference to a story in the book The Pragmatic Programmer in which a programmer would carry around a rubber duck and debug their code by forcing themselves to explain it, line by line, to the duck.” ~ learn more
Enter your address and it’ll spit out a version of your street fit for a cycling lifestyle. Don’t expect perfection, though. It’s just AI! ~ learn more
One of the funniest finance columnists of our age, Matt Levine, explains Bridgewater through the lens of Rob Copeland’s new book The Fund. “Copeland’s thesis is essentially that the “radical transparency” stuff is fake and Bridgewater is a pure cult of […]
This reporter from The Atlantic had rare access to Thiel. Why? “He wanted me to publish a promise he was going to make, so that he would not be tempted to go back on his word. And what was that […]
Remember that there are a ton of developers still pushing the boundaries of what’s possible with blockchain technology. “Imagine if every Tesla was tokenized as a dNFT with real-time metadata updates showing its service record, mileage, accident history, market value, […]
Packy McCormack argues that we ain’t seen nothin’ yet. “What happens when energy, intelligence, and labor get cheap?” ~ learn more
“As detailed in a new paper published in the journal Developmental Cell, the researchers created organoids, which are three-dimensional scaffolds of stem cells that mimic the functions of organs, to secrete proteins that eventually turn into dental enamel, the hard […]
“Large portions of the Y chromosome have long been inaccessible to scientists, namely on account of what’s known as satellite DNA, stretches of short sequences of nucleotides repeated over and over again. On top of that, the chromosome also contains […]
“It seems that inflammation not only increases social media use, but our results show preliminary evidence that it’s also associated with using social media to specifically interact with other users, like direct messaging and posting to people’s pages. Interestingly, inflammation […]