I haven’t encountered this first-hand yet. It seems like a pretty good idea, considering those are the items that drive a ton of excess cost and don’t please consumer. Why didn’t they do this sooner? ~ learn more
A critical take on the research and commercialization efforts in the lifespan extension space. “The idea that aging is a disease that can be cured, that we should all wish for an anti-aging breakthrough to live forever, or at minimum […]
“In summary, the Affordable Care Act effectively banned physician-owned hospitals. The effective ban followed lobbying efforts from non-POH organizations such as the American Hospital Association and Federation of American Hospitals. Non-POHs feared increased competition from POHs that were providing higher-quality […]
We’re prone to a series of undesirable behaviors like emotional negativity, over-thinking, increased risk-taking, and higher levels of anxiety and depression during the night. The scientists behind the theory posit that nighttime molecular levels and neuronal activities drive this. They […]
This is an economic working paper looking at the question. The author segments transparency into horizontal (across peers) and veritcal (across levels) and finds the outcomes differ. Horizontal transparency makes employers bargain harder, while vertical transparency can lead to more […]
“The reason I hate OKRs is that they are often the wrong answer for startups. OKRs are just a form of a goal — they make the goal specific and measurable and all the other things a goal should be. […]
What happens when a simple system tries to regulate a complex system. ~ learn more
This a slightly more advanced spin on the idea of a compounding advantage from more data. Tomasz Tunguz now offers a method for that advantage to compound: He highlights a recent paper about Reflexion, “an approach that endows an agent […]
There was once a well reasoned argument for life on mars. But it was built upon faulty information, namely a visual artifact from low-resolution photos. Similarly the large language model draws reasoned conclusions as it best can, but is hampered […]
Imagine you had a bunch of on/off switches and only one could be in the on position at a time. That group is a one-hot. It’s used in digital circuitry and more recently natural language processing and machine learning. ~ learn more