You can try to like stuff. “It could be food or music or people or just the general situation you’re in. I recommend this hobby, partly because it’s nice to enjoy things, but mostly as an instrument for probing human […]
The management skill nobody talks about. Drawing from Dr. Becky Kennedy’s parenting advice, the article highlights the importance of “repair” in management. Acknowledging errors, taking responsibility, and genuinely fixing the fallout can build more trust than trying to be flawless. […]
Physical AI: the operating system for the real world. Venture fund RRE published their thesis on the conversion of robotics, autonomy and AI. “As models improve and compute gets cheaper, founders are unbundling the full-stack robotics paradigm into scalable and […]
The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles. “There are plenty of benchmarks full of numbers. I don’t get much value out of those numbers. There are leaderboards, but I’ve been losing some trust in those recently. […]
AI needs clinical trials. “Harvard Business School professor Karim Lakhani shares groundbreaking research on AI’s impact in the workplace through rigorous “clinical trials” at major organizations like BCG and Procter & Gamble. These studies reveal how AI fundamentally transforms work […]
Is Rotten Tomatoes still reliable? A statistical analysis. “If every movie is ‘Certified Fresh’, then maybe Rotten Tomatoes has changed, potentially skewed by corporate interests.” ~ learn more
How to build a medieval castle. It’s called experimental archaeology: “The project launched in 1998 with a straightforward mandate: Build a thirteenth-century castle using only thirteenth-century tools, techniques, and materials.” ~ learn more
The traveling salesman problem. “Is it possible to compute the shortest route through a large number of stops? … Join mathematician Bill Cook as we explore the history and applications of this fascinating challenge, and examine state-of-the-art approaches to solving […]
The day Return became Enter. This one is for anyone who has memories of typewriters or interest in modern keyboards. ~ learn more
Aliens wouldn’t do that. “A good reason to not believe in UFOs is that only 13% of tenure-line faculty at major research institutions do. This post attempts to address other, less-good reasons people dismiss them.” ~ learn more