Applying the analogy of the automobile Market for Lemons, Lars Doucet speculates about what happens after, “the internet gets clogged with piles of semi-intelligent spam, breaking the default assumption that the “person” you’re talking to is human.” ~ learn more
From How I Built This: “Sam talks about his journey from Stanford dropout and teenage entrepreneur to president of the legendary startup incubator Y Combinator and co-founder of the nonprofit OpenAI. Plus, Sam shares his hopes and fears for the […]
There’s a big park right next to downtown Austin called Zilker. The city has been soliciting community input for two years to create a vision for its restoration and future development. This is a video recap of the current plan. ~ learn […]
“For the first time, the team’s lab experiments have also shown that a virus-only diet, which the team calls “virovory,” is enough to fuel the physiological growth and even population growth of an organism.” ~ learn more
“The OBH posits that dreams are an evolved mechanism to avoid a phenomenon called overfitting. Overfitting, a statistical concept, is when a neural network learns overly specifically, and therefore stops being generalizable. It learns too well.” ~ learn more
“Like many of you, I always thought of PDF as basically a benign format, where the author lays out some text and graphics, and then the PDF sits in front of the reader and doesn’t do anything.” That’s not the […]
This is an article from April 2021 about generative art titled: “Punks, Squiggles, and the Future of Generative Media.” Mostly, generative art has been linked to NFTs thus a wild money-grab. But there is a thread there that goes back […]
Ryan Selkis is back with the 6th edition of his tome of crypto. “We cover all of the top investment themes, people to watch, policy developments, and technical breakthroughs that we expect will shape crypto in 2023. Onward.” ~ learn […]
Adam Mastroianni might have discovered a new human bias. Then, he did something very rare in the scientific community: he self-published his research. Then he wrote this post explaining why peer review, “the greatest scientific experiment in history failed”. His […]
I was saddened to read this Consumer Reports article that cuts across most chocolate brands. “For 23 of the bars, eating just an ounce a day would put an adult over a level that public health authorities and CR’s experts […]