Below are articles that I’m reading, that I thought you might be interested in too.
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Rapid Response: "You should be running toward AI," w/Eric Schmidt (frmr Google CEO) | Masters of Scale -
The value of owning more books than you can read | Big Think Thankfully, his objection is a bit more practical: “I don’t really like Taleb’s term ‘antilibrary.’ A library is a collection of books, many of which remain unread for long periods of time.
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If the Job Market Is So Good, Why Is Gig Work Thriving? | NYT > Business -
[P]OneFlow v0.8.0 Came Out! | Artificial Intelligence -
GPT Language Model Spells Out New Proteins | b'IEEE Spectrum' One of these—Birte Höcker’s protein design lab at Bayreuth University in Germany— describe ProtGPT2, a language model based on GPT-2, to generate novel protein sequences based on the principles of natural ones.
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Fascinating paper about AI-enabled future crimes with many interesting (and creative) examples | Artificial Intelligence -
Research: The Unintended Consequences of Pay Transparency | HBR.org More specifically, we found that transparency drives managers to make employees’ performance-based incentives more similar to each other — in other words, compressing them — thereby reducing the pay dispersion driving employee concerns and complaints about pay inequity.
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When Cars Kill, It’s Not an “Accident”: A Conversation With Jessie Singer | Mother Jones Drawing from history, interviews, and personal experience—her best friend died when a drunk driver struck him on his bike—Singer examines the conditions that lead to “accidents,” from nuclear meltdowns to drug overdoses to slip-and-fall injuries.
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Researchers Find Way To Shrink a VR Headset Down To Normal Glasses Size | Slashdot [...] The research paper lists the glasses as such: "a coherent light source that is coupled into a pupil-replicating waveguide, which provides the illumination for a phase-only SLM that is mounted on the waveguide in front of the user's eye.
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A beginner’s guide to the AI apocalypse: The democratization of ‘expertise’ | Artificial Intelligence - The Next Web Imagine a game of Trivial Pursuit that functions in the exact same way as the vanilla edition, except the answers to every question were crowd-sourced from random people.
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Visualizing U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Sector | Visual Capitalist Today, the bulk of electricity generation, 60%, comes from natural gas and coal-fired power plants, with nuclear, renewables, and other sources making up 40% of the total.
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Police ticketing cyclists. Pedestrians and riders feuding. Why the High Park spat is shifting political | TORONTO STAR -
The Future of HR: How Blockchain Can Change Recruitment | Hppy For example, the Aworker project creates a single verification platform for current and potential employees, which will help people and companies more clearly coordinate work issues.
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Surging global demand for fully-remote work | UNLEASH -
We Will All End Up Paying for Someone Else’s Beach House | NYT > Top Stories -
Metaverse: Who is Winning the Race to Be the Final World? | BeInCrypto Although in-game virtual worlds populated with AI and human-controlled characters have existed for years, these aren’t metaverses.
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Selling AR-15s: Marketing Uses Masculinity and White Supremacy | Marketing - Trending on BuzzSumo These companies use "aggressive marketing tactics" to target young men by emphasizing masculinity, making veiled references to white supremacist groups, and touting military-grade weaponry, the committee report said.
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Starbucks Taps into a Cold Coffee Revolution | QSR magazine “The premium customized cold coffee opportunity ahead for Starbucks all around the world is simply enormous,” Schultz said.
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Resting: The new productivity | The Starr Conspiracy Studio You might think that in order to make it in the world, you need to hustle, but one interesting study from the Harvard Business Review traced in detail the time commitments of the most successful CEOs.
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Why Can’t Congressional Democrats Imagine a World In Which Fewer People Drive Cars? | Mother Jones Beyond the emissions benefits, a shift from driving to e-biking also improves public health (even with a battery, riders must pedal) and helps reduce traffic deaths, which have been surging in the United States.