You were training Google’s AI. “At peak, 200 million reCAPTCHAs were solved every single day.” Sharbel argues those clicks were free data annotation from people just trying to log in, and that it helped train computer vision for products like […]
The origin of Erewhon. I just learned that the name came from an old science fiction book. “In Erewhon, illness is crime and crime is illness.” Samuel Butler’s 1872 satire flips medicine and morality, with doctors acting more like judges […]
Gold supraballs trap almost all sunlight. “This results in ~90% absorption across the solar spectrum” by stacking self-assembling gold nanospheres into textured coatings that soak up UV, visible, and near-infrared, then turn it into heat for thermal devices. The payoff: […]
Influencing dreams. “Another dreamer was cued with a puzzle about jungles and woke up from a dream in which she was fishing in the jungle thinking about that puzzle.” Northwestern researchers played puzzle-specific soundtracks during REM sleep and got 75% […]
Wellness is losing meaning. “Wellness feels like it’s losing all meaning in health tech.” Oura is lobbying for a new “digital health screener” category so more wearable features could skip FDA clearance, but the wellness vs medical device line is […]
Going founder mode on cancer. “I’m doing every diagnostic I can get my hands on, and doing them often,” Sid Sijbrandij says, after exhausting standard care and building a whole operating system for his cancer treatment. The piece is a […]
As life gets better. “As life gets better, people think it’s getting worse!” The thread calls this the Tocqueville Effect, or “prevalence-induced concept change”: when a problem gets rarer, we often expand the definition so we keep “finding” it anyway. […]
Buying a bankrupt software company. “What did we actually receive? A list of passwords where nothing worked.” Buying the assets in bankruptcy meant buying customer contracts and code, and then dealing with locked accounts, deleted AWS access, and even the […]
Those poor bunnies. “We had to put the patch on the bunny; they had to stay on the bunny for a period of time, and then every day, every few hours, someone would have to look at it.” Morari’s “taint […]
A community collection of OpenClaw use cases. Is an AI bot really useful? In many ways, it can be! It’s nice to see how others apply it. PLEASE be super careful and paranoid about this whole category of product as […]