An interview with Preston Rutherford, cofounder of Chubbies last decade and a brand marketing tech platform this decade. “Preston also unpacks how metrics and feedback loops can help measure the success of brand-building efforts and shares insights on how Chubbies consistently creates shareable content. “ ~ learn more
This gets somewhat technical — in a good way, of course. “Tokenization is the process during which a piece of text is broken down into smaller pieces, tokens, by a tokenizer. These tokens are then assigned integer values (a.k.a. token IDs) which uniquely identify the tokens within the tokenizer vocabulary.” ~ learn more
After watching this video, I can’t wait for my first real life encounter with an AI faker. ~ learn more
“Here's a brief tour of the oldest known mechanical clock, which is at the Salisbury Cathedral in the UK. It's both simple and elegant, considering what tools and technology were available in 1386!” ~ learn more
“This phrase, which sounds technical but is actually nonsense, has become a "digital fossil" – an error preserved and reinforced in artificial intelligence (AI) systems that is nearly impossible to remove from our knowledge repositories.” ~ learn more
“Tech companies, banks and shipping groups are investing in a method of carbon dioxide removal that promises to speed up the chemical reaction between absorbent rocks and rainfall. The natural geological process is accelerated by spreading crushed silicate rock onto farm land to increase the surface area of the rock and its contact with CO₂, its promoters say. The alkaline materials can also be added to the ocean floor.” ~…
“Beta Technologies became the first U.S. company to land an all-electric aircraft carrying passengers at New York’s John F. Kennedy Airport June 3, 2025.” ~ learn more
“The Korea Institute of Machinery and Materials (KIMM) … has developed a technology that stably generates high photocurrent under natural sunlight to efficiently produce hydrogen.” More energy is better! ~ learn more
For much of history we’ve put computers to work. Now computers put humans (lab techs, specifically) to work. “As the first AI system to autonomously discover and validate a novel therapeutic candidate within an iterative lab-in-the-loop framework, Robin establishes a new paradigm for AI-driven scientific discovery.” ~ learn more
In a woo-woo type shop on the east coast I saw a little card promoting ‘structured water’ (same thing, different name) that they make on site with lots of ‘possible benefits.’ Now, Wikipedia labels it a “marketing scam” and that’s most likely the case. But we can dream, can’t we?! ~ learn more