“Two landmark publications came out today: one on the use of Google's Deep Mind to simulate millions of new possible materials, the other describes and autonomous self driving robotic laboratory to synthesize the materials prediction by DeepMinds simulations.” ~ learn more
“In June 2023, five years after the CNBC segment [on Jim Cramer’s show] almost to the day, Zume was liquidated. The company, which raised approximately $445 million in its lifetime, is one of Silicon Valley’s most embarrassing failures. Cause of death? Well, for one, too many ideas and…
This comes with a transcript, so it’s easy to skim and covers a lot of ground. “I had a theory. Technology companies are going to scale faster because of this thing called the Internet. The private markets and private capital will mature and be able to provide the…
“The Al Capone Problem is another specific example of this broader trend: if you try to understand Capone's imprisonment based only on the court ruling that put him away, you don't understand Capone's imprisonment.” ~ learn more
“The pulse was sent to the motor. As always, the result was immediate, but this time, alarmingly unfamiliar. The strip chart did not look like anything we had seen before. It did not even look like a broken motor. It was decidedly — something else. My mind raced…
“Even before the pandemic accelerated a massive shift to virtual care, more than a quarter of Americans were seeing nurses and physician assistants at their health care visits, according to research published in The BMJ. The study also found that the percentage of visits handled by non-physicians nearly…
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Take a worldview such as “people’s core qualities are fixed” and mix up the last word’s letters, like “iexfd”, and the reader will have a little ‘aha moment’ when they unscramble it, which also makes it more likely that they’ll internalize it. “These results demonstrate that artificially induced…
“The company hasn’t yet shown that its drug actually extends lifespan, but the FDA decision signals the agency’s confidence in Loyal’s approach, and the drug will soon be tested in a bigger trial.” ~ learn more
I haven’t had the chance to try one of these, but a colleague did and liked it. “The combination of espresso and tonic water originated in Sweden in the early aughts, allegedly created by a barista at Koppi Roasters in 2007. It grew in popularity throughout Scandavia [sic],…