thoughts of food
The curse of the Michelin star.
“Restaurants awarded the honour are more likely to close, research finds…” ~ learn more
to your health
Dartmouth therapy chatbot trial yields mental health benefits.
“People diagnosed with depression experienced a 51% average reduction in symptoms, leading to clinically significant improvements in mood and overall well-being, the researchers report. Participants with generalized anxiety reported an average reduction in symptoms of 31%, with many shifting from […]
better doing
Why 30 is not the new 20.
This TED Talk is over 10 years old, which makes me wonder if we can find people who were influenced by it 10 years ago and ask how they’re doing now? “Clinical psychologist Meg Jay has a bold message for […]
tech, startups, internet
Pushing the frontiers of audio generation.
The technical details explaining NotebookLM. Remember when this automatic podcast generator took the world by storm? Old news, I know (haha: October 30, 2024). Yet the technical details to its development are instructive. ~ learn more
tech, startups, internet
Everything wrong with Model Context Protocol.
MCP is a powerful new tool for software builders. Reading this post from a security expert should make builders and users a bit more nervous about it. “In just the past few weeks, the Model Context Protocol (MCP) has rapidly […]
tech, startups, internet
Cursor agent system prompt.
How do you get a dumb LLM to do your bidding? You have to write a very good system prompt! Nobody wants theirs exposed as it’s intellectual property, but it seems that they inevitably leak because LLMs are inevitably jailbroken. […]
tech, startups, internet
On jagged AGI.
“You might find yourself “feeling the AGI” as well. Or maybe not. Maybe the AI failed you, even when you gave it the exact same prompt I used. If so, you just encountered the jagged frontier. My co-authors and I […]
fun facts
Fully driverless truck to hit Texas highway without human backup.
I boldly claimed during a dinner this week that in our lifetime human drivers on roads will be illegal. I stand by that prediction. “Pittsburgh-based Aurora is expected to send its first driverless truck on the stretch of highway between […]
fun facts
Anti-piracy campaign uses pirated font.
“Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded. So I chucked it into […]