better doing
Monster vs. enemy.
“Pick a monster, not an enemy. The difference might be subtle, but it’s a big one…” ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
LangChain, a very exciting open source project.
“But using these LLMs in isolation is often not enough to create a truly powerful app – the real power comes when you can combine them with other sources of computation or knowledge. This library is aimed at assisting in […]
tech, startups, internet
AI and the big five.
To Stratechery’s Ben Thompson, “it seems clear … that this is a new epoch in technology.” So how might the giant tech companies of the last decade play a role in this new epoch? The premise here is that, “some […]
tech, startups, internet
Inside the secretive world of Shark Tank deals.
“Which judges close the most deals, which ones change the terms off the air, and the surprising response from some entrepreneurs who don’t win over a shark.” Unrelated: I briefly turned on Shark Tank in our hotel room last weekend, […]
fun facts
Wheel running in the wild.
A lot of experiments with mice measure their running on wheels in their cages. Some had worried that the running was a symptom of captivity rather than a natural behavior, invalidating many experiments. So, between 2009 and 2013 researchers placed […]
fun facts
Programmer salaries in the age of LLMs.
The author compares the coming change to that of lawyers’ salaries in the 1990s due to the rise of the Internet. ~ learn more
fun facts
The industrial revolution’s many prerequisites.
“Consequently while we have many examples of the emergence of farming and from there the development of complex agrarian economies, we really only have one ‘pristine’ example of an industrial revolution.” ~ learn more
on the blockchain
FTX founder-sociopath puts on a straight face and starts writing.
If he clearly weren’t so full of it, this might almost sound reasonable. As of this writing over 200 people have “liked” it, which should frighten us given his inevitable jury trial. ~ learn more
big ideas
The dystopia we fear is keeping us from the utopia we deserve.
Ezra Klein makes the point that we got carried away with the “reduce” part of reduce, reuse, recycle. Our per capita energy use in the US has decreased since 1979. It’s not a coincidence that most tech innovation since then […]
under the microscope
Boiling peanuts drives better results in oral immunotherapy treatments.
“At the end of the 52-week trial, 80% of the cohort were successfully tolerating the target of safely eating nearly a dozen roasted peanuts a day.” ~ learn more