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My first glance reactions to Situational Awareness: The Decade Ahead by Leopold Aschenbrenner.

Bill Walton is my favorite athlete I never saw play.

I'm one of the early users here, but this app is severely underbaked, even for a beta rollout.

The state of Georgia has certain offices that are designated as non-partisan.

The rise of the remote husband.

For a couple of years now, I’ve been posting things I learned as a way of cultivating curiosity.[0] But this year I’ve stumbled upon a different sort of thing I want to train myself to notice: things I wish I knew.

How school rankings work.

Ezra Klein on parenting.

From my friends at Duolingo: The people that affectionately call their Prince William "Wills" and £5 and £10 notes ~"fivers" and "tenners"~ are responsible for shortening "Association Football" to just "Assoc."

Found via Dynomight: Quality over quantity.

You can read my review of Phind, another LLM tool, here.

Maggie Appleton on organizing community.

HeyRecap is the next evolution of Recap Roswell, a project using LLMs to create easily readable summaries for the Roswell City Council.

From D Magazine: The standardization of the jalapeño was rapidly accelerated by the debut, about 20 years ago, of the TAM II jalapeño line, a reliably big, shiny, fleshy pepper that can grow up to six inches long—with little to no heat.

To experience the region's Fish Fries.

The surprising historical accuracy of ancient flood stories in Australia.

What makes a superfood?

Thinking about how cool it is that the electrons inside an atom of gold are moving at 58% of the speed of light. pic.twitter.com/tBl6v1lI6x — Will Kinney (@WKCosmo) February 6, 2024

I've adopted [Resend] (https://resend.com/) for a project.

I was listening to Fall of Civilizations podcast and they referenced the size of Lake Victoria, the source of the Nile river, in Africa as approximately the US State of Georgia.

I’ve been noticing a particular strong point in my use of LLMs: repackaging knowledge.

A woman spends 500 days alone in a cave. — via The Browser.

A compelling case that plants and animals without brains have memories.

Speculative from someone who knows the industry well: * The changes Apple made to Ad Tracking have totally ruined the playbook for DTC beauty brands, who can no longer grow using targeted ads on Facebook (this is well known) * A second order effect of this

Post by @ianbremmer View on Threads Presumably this trust is going somewhere.

Regulations themselves aren’t the problem, though.

My first book of 2024, Eisenhower in War and Peace by Jean Edward Smith.

Via Marginal Revolution: The explanation for this is pretty obvious when you think about it.

Gaissmaier and Gigerenzer found that Americans flew less and drove more in the year after 9/11, which led to 1,600 more traffic deaths over that period than would otherwise have been expected.

It pains me to see the warm vineyards and villages on the sunny side of the main Valais valley on the north side of Lake Geneva and the heavily-farmed sunny slopes of the north side of the Anterior Rhine Valley in the shade, while the wooded slopes on the…

I saw this yesterday afternoon and it caught my eye: That study that found men frequently leave their wives when they get sick was retracted/corrected.

New to me this week is Dean Bog who does 15 minute videos on various neighborhoods around the city of Pittsburgh.

I found Phind via Marginal Revolution and Tyler Cowen's recommendation.

If you were a scale believer over the last few years, the progress we’ve been seeing would have just made more sense.

Mild spoilers ahead A fictional account of a military history about a war between China and the US and allied forces over Taiwan set in 2028.

"In 1990, only 5% percent of Americans had a passport.

Two things I took away from Brian Potter's recap of the Apollo Program: The mixture between "complicated" innovation and "brute force" innovation; to make the second stage rocket booster light enough to be effective took both totally new design concepts a…

The furnace proved that coke made from the nearby Connellsville seam of bituminous coal was uniquely able to be used in the blast furnaces that transformed iron ore into pig iron.

Branca buys 3/4ths of the world's saffron, according to Eater, for their popular fernet drink.

US coal power plants killed at least 460,000 people over the past 20 years - twice as many premature deaths as previously thought, with updated understanding of dangers of air pollution (PM2.5) https://t.co/ajJ1An3hBp — Dr.

A spoonful of sugar really does help the medicine go down.

BREAKING: if you are looking for love in America, stay right here on the internet.

If you take a picture of the Eiffel Tower at night, you can't sell it without permission because the lights are copyrighted.

The March 2011 9.0 earthquake in Japan was so strong that it altered the earth's axis and shortened the length of a day.

Brevard, NC.

Sam Altman will be back as CEO of OpenAI within 60 days of today.

Have you ever been deep in a ChatGPT conversation and wanted to email a piece of it to yourself to remember later?

When Matthew and I were beginning to look at starting Macro Oceans, one of the things that got me interested in the opportunity was the mystery of it: if seaweed is so chemically rich and so easy to grow, why isn't it used for more things?

Orthodox Jews, although they comprise about 0.2 percent of U.S. population, account for some 18 percent of so-called altruistic kidney donations (i.e., those where a living donor gives an organ to a recipient he or she doesn’t know).

NEW: Generative AI is already taking white collar jobs An ingenious study by @xianghui90 @oren_reshef @Zhou_Yu_AI looked at what happened on a huge online freelancing platform after ChatGPT launched last year.