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Nice essay Ankit! I think there are two more factors worth touching on that make things difficult in drug discovery: 1. It feels like you're differentiating a bit but I always hear…

There’s a well-known Louis Pasteur quote that I always liked: “Chance favors the prepared mind”

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2025-07-07/jan...

I'm a big fan of Tiller [1], which is a paid service that basically just connects Yodlee to Google Docs or Excel. It will dump all your transactions and balance info into a spreads…

One thing I miss from Google is relatively seamless integration with maps. Sometimes the address queries just fail for me on Kagi. And even when they don’t, Google’s maps are still…

A close family member of mine is developing Alzheimer's disease. He can still take care of himself but is getting more difficult to converse with. He loses things easily, and every…

In Israel they produce single-serving chocolate milk bags, which now mainly serve as a fond dose of nostalgia for me.

I’ve found Citymapper to give far more realistic routes and commute times on the NYC subway.

How does this compare with Concertmaster? It's basically a skin on top of Spotify for browsing classical music. It's free and pretty good. (There's also an app.) And I believe ther…

My contacts are a gross tangle of partially duplicated records between Google, iPhone, etc. How do y'all manage your contacts? There have been lots of startups trying to take on va…

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Hadn't heard of Primephonic, but I have been using Concertmaster.app as a classical music-focused "skin" for Spotify and it's pretty good (and free!).

I would love to see how this was implemented. Is this on GitHub or equivalent somewhere?

It wasn't too fancy. I bought self-adhesive laminating sheets and reinforced with "book tape". https://photos.app.goo.gl/QRCgTCUas1uYnY6x5 It did feel a bit sacrilegious slicing th…

I used an X-Acto knife to slice it into 3 volumes and rebound them.

Altair does Grammar of Graphics and interactivity, and has ~6k stars.