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There’s a great explainer video of the protein-folding problem included in this write-up. “In a major scientific advance, the latest version of our AI system AlphaFold has been recognised as a solution to the protein folding problem by the organisers […]
A research paper by Saras D. Sarasvathy highlights his learnings from a deep survey of 30 founders in the late 1990s. He concludes that entrepreneurs use “effectual” rather than causal reasoning. “[I]t begins with a given set of means and […]
This newsletter called High Tea, written for and by members of Gen-Z, is a wonderful window into world of today’s newest adults. They seem to love emojis, TikTok and abbreviations of both words and phrases. I would’ve never figured out […]
Move over, Mavis Beacon! I tried this for a little while and it was great. “Improve your typing while reading great books like Alice in Wonderland, 1984, The Art of War, The Call of Cthulhu, Pride and Prejudice, Dracula, and […]
“[Neil Harbisson] is best known for being the first person in the world with an antenna implanted in his skull and for being legally recognized as a cyborg by a government. His antenna sends audible vibrations through his skull to […]
“Bitcoin is nearing its prior all-time high (ATH), set in December 2017. It’s entirely plausible that we could regain the heady $20,000 level within the next few weeks or months. This time, it’s happening without much fanfare, and without the […]
“But this efficiency obsession [among economists] also leads conservatives to defend free market capitalism on fallacious grounds. In truth free markets are not really efficient at all. Admiring capitalism for its efficiency is like admiring Bob Dylan for his mellifluous […]
“The second kind of history to learn from are the broad behaviors that show up again and again, in multiple fields and different eras. They are the 30,000-foot takeaways from events that hide layers below the main story, often going […]
Staff who abandoned their agricultural research facility in Syria amidst the civil war, “became the first—and remain the only—depositors to make a withdrawal from Svalbard, combing the stacks for tens of thousands of samples and shipping them to new ancillary […]