Ruthless capitalism’s mercy rule. The article argues, “Today’s American capitalism has eliminated the mercy rule,” underscoring a stark shift toward “ruthless capitalism” where success has no limits but failure entails severe consequences. The piece contrasts this with other countries that […]
A low yield for cancer detection. The largest study of the Galleri blood test for early cancer detection, involving nearly 36,000 participants, revealed that only “3 cases per 1,000 participants” resulted in early cancer detection. The biggest knock against this […]
This 1993 Atlantic article stood against laissez-faire economics. I don’t endorse this view, yet it isn’t completely baseless. “Today’s Anglo-American world view rests on the shoulders of three men: Isaac Newton, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Adam Smith.” This perspective treats their […]
Andrej Karpathy’s take on the Richard Sutton interview (above). “So that brings us to where we are. Stated plainly, today’s frontier LLM research is not about building animals. It is about summoning ghosts. You can think of ghosts as a […]
Refundable travel bookings convert way better. “Today, we talk about how Booking Holdings mastered A/B testing to build a $170B+ online travel beast.” First, a short version of “Travel’s Greatest Acquisition”, then a look in to Booking’s optimization machinery. ~ […]