on the blockchain

Blockchain project ecosystem. 

Josh Nussbaum, VC @ Compound, put together a very helpful guide to the current ecosystem around blockchain. He breaks projects down into 8 different categories and adds helpful explanation to each. | learn more

tech, startups, internet

AI now understands actions in video. 

German AI startup TwentyBN has created an AI algorithm that can identify what’s happening in a video stream in real time.  An example: “Trying to pour water into a cup, but missing so it spills next to it.” They claim […]

oh, chicago

DNAinfo shuts down. 

Joe Ricketts, the famed owner of the Chicago Cubs, also owns DNAinfo, one of my favorite sources for local news. Their New York office voted to unionize. A week later, Ricketts decided to shut down the company. | learn more

under the microscope

SynTouch gives machines the power to feel. 

Alexa and Siri can hear you. The new iPhone X can see you. But tactile feedback to a machine is still not commercially available. “A company called SynTouch, which spun out of the University of Southern California, has created a […]

better doing

The problem with behavioral economics. 

Australian economist Jason Collins equates the 165 cognitive biases with a broken model of the 16th century earth-centric universe. Basically, he makes the point that these biases are not “malfunctions” but are rather more simply explained by a better model […]