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
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 […]
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
This is a nice recap of studies that I’ve referenced in the past. Not to suggest that this diet is a panacea, but the early research merits attention. | learn more
“And while I am not dumb enough to have imagined I’d make much money as a passive, partial investor in a New York City restaurant, I was dumb enough to think that I could probably earn my money back-ish, while […]
Britt Hermes was trained as a naturopath by Bastyr University. Then one day she realized much of the practice wasn’t science- or evidence-based. She then switched sides and started working to expose what she sees as false-hoods. I haven’t done […]
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 […]
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 […]
Forbes managed to get 25 crypto experts to weigh in on the question. | learn more
Some websites have figured out a way to turn their visitors’ web browsers (over 500 million of them) into a distributed network of cryptocurrency miners – often without their knowledge. | learn more