Super thin solar cells.
Sakana drops an AI scientist.
Astral Codex Ten demystifies Ozempic's magic.
Milei increases housing supply with this one trick.
Two studies show how little we know about our bodies. What a week for the optimists.
@packym
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Solar cells, AI scientists, and Ozempic breakthroughs
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Critic Lambasted New York Times Over Failed AI Prediction
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I remember him lambasting the New York Times for saying it would never work
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Managing Side Projects Alongside Primary Tech Ventures
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The energy to do side projects on top of varda makes more sense now…
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AI-Generated Tweet Replies Spark Ethical Debate Online
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People who AI reply to tweets should get consecutive life sentences with no internet access.
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Eight Sleep: Building Predictive Health Through Smart Mattress Hardware
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If you want to build a predictive health platform, a mattress cover is a surprisingly good place to start. Then, you just need to build a consumer hardware company with hundreds of thousands of users over a decade. This week's Deep Dive is on @eightsleep
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The Master Switch: Essential Reading on Tech Power Concentration
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Big Tech Monopolies and Government Surveillance: Historical Parallels
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I'm currently reading about how the Bush admin let the Bells reconstitute themselves into AT&T after breaking them up a couple decades earlier so that the NSA would have one partner to wiretap Americans with. Makes you wonder how Apple keeps getting away with this stuff.
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Ti Morse interviews Chris on AI’s historical arc
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Really good conversation between @ti_morse and @2112Power
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