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Predicting it now: Humane will be acqui-hired by OpenAI to be their hardware shop within 24 months.

There are more pet dogs (~83 million) than children (~72 million) living in the United States.

I'm most excited about Longer context windows Lower prices Custom GPTs.

From State Affairs: The Georgia Rural Health Innovation Center at Mercer University School of Medicine did an online statewide survey between January and April 2022 .

My side project, Recap Roswell was covered in Appen Media, our local news outlet this week: “I feel like Roswell, Georgia, the United States would be healthier if we have more of those institutions, or micro institutions, where people are connecting and g…

I found these to be astoundingly high, so much so that I am wondering if there is an error in the data.

The opioid overdose crisis has been ongoing for over two decades in Canada and the U.S.

Moreover, in some ways the military has become a “family business” with over half of enlistees having a close family member with military service.

You can outperform most venture funds by buying LEGO.

The dodo, the giant, flightless, extinct bird was actually a type of pigeon.

82% of Republicans and 76% of Democrats support putting a maximum age limit in place for elected officials in Washington, D.C. 82% of Democrats and 68% of Republicans favor one for Supreme Court justices.

United Airlines Holdings Inc. would save $80 million a year if the average passenger weight falls by 10 pounds, Sheila Kahyaoglu, a Jefferies Financial analyst, estimated in a report Friday.

In 2022, I was finally stable enough to start an herb garden with my daughter.

Okay here's a ridiculous (but true) take: word processing is bad.

I did my best with this book, but I couldn't make it through.

Ethan Mollick's fantastic One Useful Thing newsletter has an overview of a recent paper he did studying the impact of AI tools on BCG consultants.

Fantastic ChinaTalk episode on the role of Congress in American civic live with Philip Wallach: The specific things that stood out to me: The role of Congress in creating legitimate legislation: The Civil Rights act of 1968 was given legitimacy by the pro…

From Macro Oceans: We spoke to half a dozen farmers across the state (if we missed you, please reach out!).

In the 19th century, americans would raise armies to support secession/revolution in latin-american nations.

So many gems in this piece by Ryan Burge, Church Attendance Used to Drive Up Trust, It Doesn't Anymore.

Basic accounting – the Kalecki equation – shows that government deficits and corporate profits are on opposite sides of a ledger that sums to zero.

Koala fingerprints are nearly identical to human fingerprints, to the degree that they can interfere with forensic investigations.

My friend Uri wrote a blog post about different types of supports: I’m going to call any supportive device that degrades your ability to perform the activity un-aided an enfeebling support.

Toblerone is moving it's chocolate production out of Switzerland and losing it's logo as a result.

In the past 5 decades, the obesity rate in the United States has never gone down two years in a row, paraphrased from the Odd Lots Episode linked above.

The Sicilian Revolution, the first one of the many revolutions of 1848, was kicked off by a single person putting up flyers in the name of a revolutionary committee that didn't exist.

Incredibly, the placebo effect is (mostly) not real.

My favorite episode of television of the year so far, maybe in two years.

Modern Europe’s total urban population only surpassed the total urban population of the Roman Empire around the time of Isaac Newton, a whole 16 centuries after the ancient peak (which implies that the rate of urbanization was lower, as 17th century Europe

Do Insects Feel Joy and Pain?

I really enjoyed this episode of Odd Lots with Dr.

In the most recent conversations with Tyler, Paul Graham and Tyler Cowen discuss the question: "Why are there so few great founders in their 20s today?"

via the Madison Trust.

I’ve been pondering this question a bit lately as a prompt for where it’s worth focusing time and attention.

I wrote an overview of the seaweed industry for Macro Oceans:

This is a Twitter thread by George Mack: What is ignored or neglected by the media -- but will be studied by historians?

If Alexander Graham Bell had not secured the patent for inventing the telephone, Elisha Gray would have gotten it because they both applied for the telephone patent on the same day (Feb 14, 1876).

HIV transmission in Sydney has plunged more than 88% from the 2008-2012 average to just 11 cases per year.

From Wikipedia: Square or cube watermelons are watermelons grown into the shape of a cube.

I think about this Tyler Cowen question a lot: What is it you do to train that is comparable to a pianist practicing scales?

I found this video to be a helpful distillation of concepts I'd heard before with a couple things that were new to me.

From the WSJ via Dan Wang.

The Whiting hydroelectric power plant was built in 1891 and still operates today, and the 2018 Camp Fire in California was caused by a PG&E transmission line built in 1921.

Post by @hausfath View on Threads As I said before, two things are true at the same time right now at once: 1.

I enjoyed this book less because of the story and more because of the sense of place.

The navigation elements on my blog now fade out as you scroll down my blog so as not to clutter your view.

This piece from the Financial Times really resonated with me.

One of my proudest accomplishments from the past year is coding this website with the help of GPT.

Just to give you a sense, the mortality rate for something like cardiac arrest or a heart attack goes up by about 15 to 20% on the day of a marathon.