better doing
Train for any argument with Harvard’s former debate coach.
Bo Seo explains how to argue well in this 12 minute video. ~ learn more
better doing
Scar tissues make relationships wear out.
“This is my most touchy-feely thought for the weekend. Here’s the basic idea: It’s really hard to build relationships that last for a long time. If you haven’t discovered this, you will discover this sooner or later. And it’s hard […]
better doing
Risk revisited again.
Howard Marks, the famous investor who runs Oaktree Capital, wrote this memo about risk to his limited partners in 2015. Risk can never really be measured. “It may rain tomorrow, or it may not, but nothing that happens tomorrow will […]
tech, startups, internet
Machine brains and their discontents.
“As biotech businesses become more specialized, I find that it can be useful to stratify biotech platforms into two buckets: target companies and modality companies. So far, AI advances have been more valuable for modality companies than for target companies. […]
tech, startups, internet
Introducing Gorilla.
This seems like it might be something. “Gorilla is a LLM that can provide the appropriate API calls. It is trained on three massive machine learning hub datasets: Torch Hub, TensorFlow Hub and HuggingFace. … Zero-shot Gorilla outperforms GPT-4, Chat-GPT […]
oh, chicago
Chicago cop got out of 44 tickets by blaming his girlfriend.
The excuse worked once, and so he kept using it. “Well, that morning, I broke up with my girlfriend and she stole my car,” Kriv, who had been ticketed for running a red light, testified in January 2021. ~ learn more
fun facts
What is one-pedal driving and how does it work?
I just heard about and had to look it up. Some electric vehicles offer this: “One-pedal driving allows a driver to bring a vehicle to a full stop without using the brake pedal.” Basically using the regenerative braking, letting go […]
fun facts
How wolf became dog.
Differing snouts, coats, and obedience to to humans distinguish the two species. Dogs are possibly the first domesticated animals species, and they came form some sort of wolf. But how exactly did that come about? This 2015 article in Scientific […]
big ideas
Earth’s microbial diversity may be underestimated.
A recent survey of 99 coral reefs found 500k species, which is kind of a lot. “The immense diversity of the microbes on the reefs may offer “ecological insurance” for coral, fish and other inhabitants, Pierre Galand, a researcher at […]
under the microscope
A soft robot unfurls inside the skull.
“The novel gadget may lead to minimally invasive ways to investigate the brain and implant brain-computer interfaces, researchers say.” ~ learn more