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> The modern software industry is built on the assumption that we need developers to act as middlemen between us and computers. They translate our desires into code and abstract it…

This looks like a revised paper for the project announced Feb 19: https://research.google/blog/accelerating-scientific-breakth...

Maybe an evolutionary / structuralist lens is helpful here: terms that rapidly diffuse through discourse are those that people like most, and most people like to anthropomorphize, …

What guarantees do services like egg freezing provide, e.g. if the power goes out for their -80 freezer, or if they go bankrupt? What happens to your cells? What about with this se…

With the news that Apple and OpenAI are closing / just closed a deal for iOS 18, it's easy to speculate we might be hearing about that exciting new model at WWDC...

Ed Tong’s recent release, An Immense World, is an exploration of the unique sensory worlds of creatures throughout the animal kingdom. I enjoyed listening to it while my sensory wo…

Don’t forget that Qualcomm purchased Nuvia (ex Apple chip designers) last year. Will they be playing catch-up with apple’s CPUs? Maybe. But maybe there’s a connectivity/ communicat…

As with COVID-related outcomes, focusing only on fatalities ignores other meaningful negative outcomes. Based on personal experience after living SF/Oakland ~ 10 years, I'd also ta…

Original paper: https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa2107454?query=fe... This is the first published IV-administration of a gene-editing CRISPR payload. Interesting converge…

Majority of global doses actually expected to be provided by AstraZeneca. See orders per large country here: https://www.economist.com/graphic-detail/2020/11/13/a-vaccin...

Thinking of the encoded genetic information developing over time as simply "training" the neural network of the brain doesn't quite capture development; proteins are manufactured a…

One interesting hypothesis, re: lithium isotopes in Posner molecules: https://www.kitp.ucsb.edu/sites/default/files/users/mpaf/p17...

Facebook has 10+ years of data about people and their friendships and relationships unfolding through time (tagged pictures, relationship status, updates, likes, etc.). It's hard t…