Pavel Sokolovsky

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Dec 10, 2023

The future of aviation.

“Indeed, the greatest question facing the aviation industry today is: why does progress seem to be so difficult to achieve? Why have we seen regression on metrics like speed, altitude, and commercial flight times?” ~ learn more

Dec 10, 2023

Joshua Kushner.

His firm, Thrive Capital, manages over $5 billion, up from $40 million when he started it. “Kushner's firm won over top Silicon Valley CEOs, from OpenAI to Instagram, in record time. Insiders detail how he paved a path outside his famous family.” ~ learn more

Dec 3, 2023

Challenge anxious thoughts with help from this tool.

Created by an anxious person who didn’t always have someone to talk out their worries with. Describe anything you’re anxious about and the tool will help put you at ease (if appropriate). It can also predict and handle your rebuttals. ~ learn more

Dec 3, 2023

Welding and the automation frontier.

“A good job for drilling down into the specifics of automation is welding. Welding today exists right on the “automation frontier” — some industries, like car manufacturing, have automated nearly all their welding, while others, like construction, have automated very little of it. Welding also encompasses a fairly…

Dec 3, 2023

How much energy does it take to run an AI model?

This blows my mind. I double-checked the math and think it’s accurate. The average power needed to generate one image from text is equivalent to an entire cell phone battery. A new paper published by researchers from Hugging Face and Carnegie Mellon University used a plugin called CodeCarbon…

Dec 3, 2023

Teaching a computer to smell (or: smellovision, here we come).

“In short, the paper validates the idea that it’s now possible to apply machine learning to quantify, digitize, and engineer scent. A core problem preventing us from digitizing scent is something that the other senses already have – a map. RGB is a three-dimensional map of all colors,…

Dec 3, 2023

A new XPRIZE for increasing healthspan.

The original prize was designed to promote space tourism with a $10 million bounty. Now here comes another: “XPRIZE Healthspan is a 7-year, $101 million global competition to revolutionize the way we approach human aging.” ~ learn more