June- December 2021

• The world's first octopus farm - should it go ahead? 
• Porsche Working on Synthetic Fuel to Make ICE Cars as Clean as EVs - The hydrogen-based fuel will be ready for testing in 2022, including in the new Porsche 911 GT3 Cup race car. 
• Ancient DNA reveals the world’s oldest family tree 
• DeepMind’s New AI With a Memory Outperforms Algorithms 25 Times Its Size 
• SKILLSOFT TO ACQUIRE CODECADEMY 
• On Russia potentially invading Ukraine 
• While omicron explodes around the world, covid cases in Japan keep plummeting and no one knows exactly why
• That Is Not How Your Brain Works 
• When Aldous Huxley Opened the Doors of Perception 
• ‘15 minutes to save the world’: a terrifying VR journey into the nuclear bunker
• Google is building a new augmented reality device and operating system 
• Ideas are just a multiplier of execution - from the book “Anything You Want” 
• The ‘Invisible’, Often Unhappy Workforce That’s Deciding the Future of AI 
• https://arcinstitute.org - New institution by Patrick Collison 
• Psychedelics alter metaphysical beliefs - Can the use of psychedelic drugs induce lasting changes in metaphysical beliefs? 
• U.S. Housing as a Global Safe Asset: Evidence from China Shocks 
• How Much Does Education Improve Intelligence? A Meta-Analysis 
• The Matrix is Unreal 
• Great Protocol Politics 
• The Invention of Chinese 
• Don’t Overdose on VC: Lessons from 166 startup IPOs 
• Mercedes Beats Tesla to Hands-Free Driving on the Autobahn 
• https://learnxinyminutes.com 
• Generating 360° Video Game Panoramas 
• Reverse Engineering Roman Calvary 
• Open Letter on K-12 Mathematics Zrythm: A highly automated and intuitive digital audio workstation 
• What Nikola Tesla Taught Us About Struggle And Life? 
• Geothermal Everywhere: A New Path For American Renewable Energy Leadership 
• YOU WILL FORGET, YOU HAVE FORGOTTEN
• On Scaling Academia 
• U.S. Satellites Are Being Attacked Every Day According To Space Force General 
• Why Adversarial Image Attacks Are No Joke 
• https://polite.technology/preview
• Soviet Rocket Engines 
• The Australian Rhino Project Achieves Major Milestone
• Why thieves love to steal catalytic converters
• He Created The Oregon Trail And he didn’t make a penny. 
• Dutch Man Invents Coffin That Turns Bodies Into Mushrooms: ‘We are nutrients, not waste 
• Drug addicts and deceptively aligned agents - a comparative analysis 
• The Greedy Doctor Problem 
• A Conversation with Margo Seltzer and Mike Olson: The history of Berkeley DB 
• https://cleanvoice.ai :
• The deep sea: Animals at different depths in the ocean 
• The genius of John von Neumann 
• Promising in Crypto Gaming 
• Hands On Ethereum Day 
• Ivermectin: Much More Than You Wanted To Know 
• Apple announces Self Service Repair 
• Elon Musk and Dan Carlin Podcast 
• How the Rosetta Stone Yielded Its Secrets
• Processing billions of events in real time at Twitter
• Is there such thing as good taste? 
• Why salt was so important throughout history 
• Woolf raises $7.5 million to make higher education more accessible by building a global collegiate university
• Rooming With Rabbits (and Other Nonhumans) 
• Is Marriage A Normal Good? Evidence from NBA drafts 
• What would a world with very cheap energy look like? 
• Monte Carlo Methods or Why it's a Bad Idea to Go to the Casino 
• Yann LeCun’s Deep Learning Course at NYU 
• Creating the first consumer humanoid robot – suggestions for apps? 
  • https://www.animarobotics.life/store/p/teddy
• How I use Notion 
• I Am Begging You to Learn How Dictionaries Work 
• The University of Austin
• How credit cards make money 
• Crypto Cities 
• This Is My Brain on Salvia 
• On Cards, Crypto, and Christ
• https://www.constitutiondao.com
• How to Find the Frontiers of Knowledge
• Market Failures in Science
• TIMELINE OF THE HUMAN CONDITION
• TRADING CARDS ARE COOL AGAIN 
• Zillow Just Gave Us A Look At Machine Learning's Future
• How does a Game Engine work? An Overview
• World-first psilocybin clinical trial in the treatment of Generalized Anxiety Disorder receives ethics approval
• Helion 
• Why Tokyo Works 
• There’s a ‘Squid Game’ cryptocurrency – and it’s up nearly 2,400% in the last 24 hours
• A developer’s guide to programatically overcome fear of failure 
• How Long Does It Take Ordinary People To "Get Good" At Chess? 
• Brain implant may lift most severe depression 
• How I Motivate Myself to Write 
• Young People Are Leaving Their Jobs in Record Numbers—And Not Going Back
• Rise and fall of Rawlsianism 
• How to Train Large Deep Learning Models as a Startup 
• A visit from a social robot improves hospitalized children’s outlook 
• 20 Things I’ve Learned in my 20 Years as a Software Engineer 
• ChessCoach 
• You Can Now Buy NFTs That Help Rebuild Brazil's Rainforest 
• U.S. Tech Salaries Grow, But Not For Everyone 
• Vitalik Buterin says he created ethereum after his beloved World of Warcraft character was hobbled by the developers, awakening him to the 'horrors centralized services can bring' 
• Links & What I've been reading Q3 2021 
• Decrement carbon: Stripe's negative emissions commitment 
• Introducing Golden Open 
• Surgeons have successfully tested a pig’s kidney in a human patient 
• Open secrets about Hacker News 
• NASA chief Bill Nelson talks UFOs and ET life 
• Tyler Cowen: Why Big Tech is Underrated.mp4 
• Futurists have their heads in the clouds: On making good predictions for 2050 
• Willingness to look stupid
• An Introduction to Probabilistic Programming
• Beyond smart 
  • The bus ticket theory of genius
• is self-help bad?
• Simon Roper: the 23-year-old reconstructing the past for millions of online viewers 
• Tracking the best chess openings 
• How to reverse-engineer a rainforest 
• Bitcoin & Nuclear-Future of Energy Grid |Part 1 y
• A New Model for Innovative R&D 
• Radiant Nuclear 
• GitLab from YC to IPO 
• State of Web Scraping in 2021 
• Farm equipment security at DEF CON 29 
• Why Obsessively Following Successful People Online is Dangerous
• What is BGP? | BGP routing explained
• Offshore havens and hidden riches of world leaders and billionaires exposed in unprecedented leak
• Nucleate: 
• The Intense World Theory of Autism
• How to visualize decision trees
• Working From Orbit 
• Asteroid Spotting 
• Twitter enables tipping with Bitcoin, plans to let users authenticate NFTs 
• Lab-grown meat is supposed to be inevitable. The science tells a different story. 
• Compound Manual: The curated library of wealth planning resources for startup founders and employees.
• Food fraud and counterfeit cotton: the detectives untangling the global supply chain 
• Sexy cynicism and nihilist elitism 
• IRB's 
• Kidnapping, assassination and a London shoot-out: Inside the CIA's secret war plans against WikiLeaks 
• How Does Progress Happen? 
• When expertise gone missing: Uncovering the loss of prolific contributors in Wikipedia 
• Category Theory Illustrated
• If Marx or Freud had never lived?
• What I Learned From My Fireside Chat with Coach K 
• Casio watch mods 
• Ways to think about water
• Is BI dead? 
• Imagine another version of the Internet respectful of people’s attention and time 
• 30 Days of Silence: My Journey into Meditation 
• Unmatched: Repairing the U.S. Medical Residency Pipeline
• Does anyone know how people explained why cannons and guns had recoil before Newton's laws of motion? #questions // here
• How Inuit Parents Teach Kids To Control Their Anger 
• On Youtube's recommendation system 
• Video Games’ Sensory Revolution: How Haptics Reinvented the Controller
• Why does DARPA work? 
  • Shifting the impossible to the inevitable
• Focused Research Organizations to Accelerate Science, Technology, and Medicine 
  • Notes on Adam Marblestone's Focused Research Organizations 
• Zoom meets Virtual Reality 
• Why the U.S. President Needs a Council of Historians 
• Regret Minimization
• How 9/11 changed architecture and urban design forever
• Approximations vs averages 
• Was Vaccine Production Actually Delayed
• Effective Altruism Forum 
• nuclear war survival skills 
• Electrifying New York 
• Wright has Begun Testing our 2 MW Aviation-Grade Motor for Transport-Category Zero-Emissions Aircraft
• OpenAI Shuts Down Chatbot Project By Indie Developer To Prevent 'Possible Misuse'
• Duolingo: The antithesis to the bazaar 
• OpenSea product chief accused of flipping NFTs using insider information 
• Pmarca Guide to Career Planning: Introduction
• How Equipment Left In Afghanistan Will Expose US Secrets 
• needs
• 9/12 Edward Snowden 
• Markets in everything: Spy Charging Cable 
• Sri Lanka organic and economic disaster 
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• Leaked IPCC report 
• Who owns the US National Debt 
• What new under the sun 
• A Chemical Hunger: Part 1; The study of obesity is the study of mysteries
  • Entire series: https://slimemoldtimemold.com
• The nuclear weapon archive; A guide to Nuclear Weapons 
• Science 
• Amazon to pay college tuition for hourly employees 
• Impetus Grants 
• AI Timelines: Where the arguments and the experts stand 
• My views on global warming 
• Melatonin: More than you wanted to know 
• Sam Altman Q&A: GPT and AGI I
• What if all guns disappeared? 
• 5 Fallacies when discussing 100% renewable energy 
• [[Applied Divinity Studies]] Interview 
• Tyler Cowen is the best curator of talent in the world 
• A list of all winners of the Emergent Ventures program 
• Nuclear scientists as assassination targets 
• Why is there a chip shortage?
• How we turn satellite imagery into wall art 
• Depression is complicated – this is how our understanding of the condition has evolved over time 
• Citation statement search 
• Where arguments come from 
• Signaling on the internet 
• What Tyler Cowen thinks of pretty much everything 
• How does Facetime work? 
• How to let go 
• On continually renegotiating your identity 
• you have what you want
• Jack Nicklaus on Work Life Balance
• Open Philanthropy Undergraduate Scholarship 
• If I understand this correctly, UT Austin professors are now free to pay students to wear masks in their classes.  Many are outraged.
• Hyperphysics 
• My dead dad’s journal: How I finally met a man I knew for my entire life
• Carbon Costs Quantified 
• DIY E-bike conversion on the cheap 
• Tesla project Dojo Overview
• This can't go on 
• This Physicist Discovered an Escape From Hawking’s Black Hole Paradox 
• Depression is complicated – this is how our understanding of the condition has evolved over time 
• Pioneer Codex 
• Data-Mining Wikipedia for Fun and Profit
• The worlds biggest tire graveyard in Kuwait is on fire 
• Energy Storage Topic Modeling 
• Micro acquire 
• Xi’s Dictatorship Threatens the Chinese State
• Startup Nonprofits 
• Capitol Hill Trading 
• A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important
• A tweet cost him his doctorate: The extent of China’s influence on Swiss universities 
• The surreal experience of my first developer job
• The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones 
• Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials 
• Unfolding the hippocampus 
• Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes
• The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary 
• If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan
• Olympic Charter Cities 
• Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know 
• OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
• Solarpunk Manifesto 
• SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE 
• Nice problems to have
•  https://austinvernon.eth.link
• Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse 
• The highest forms of wealth 
• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database 
• Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation's Algorithm for Transplant Pairing : Matching Algorithm 
• Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't 
• And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes 
• Kumars natural gas thesis
• Everything you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines 
• Persuading investors: A video based study 
• What it is like hauling nuclear weapons across the country 
• How to learn stuff quickly 
• Notes on Peru // Notes on Spain
• The “GameStop Narrative” and Post Mortem vs. “Hypothetical Reality” 
• Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids 
• Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) 
• You are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance. 
• Capitol Hill Trading 
• A Soviet Prisoner's View on What's Important 
• A tweet cost him his doctorate: The extent of China’s influence on Swiss universities 
• The surreal experience of my first developer job
• The most unbelievable things about life before smartphones 
• Alien Dreams: The Surprisingly Long History of Speculation About Extraterrestrials 
• Unfolding the hippocampus 
• Adam Savage on Lists, More Lists, and the Power of Checkboxes
• The Fine Line Between Reality and Imaginary 
• If Einstein Had The Internet: An Interview With Balaji Srinivasan 
• Olympic Charter Cities 
• Delta Variant: Everything You Need to Know
• OpenAI disbands its robotics research team
• Solarpunk Manifesto 
• SOLARPUNK : A REFERENCE GUIDE 
• Nice problems to have
•  https://austinvernon.eth.link
• Mark Zuckerberg in the Metaverse 
• The highest forms of wealth 
• AlphaFold Protein Structure Database 
• Alliance for Paired Kidney Donation's Algorithm for Transplant Pairing : Matching Algorithm 
• Why women gymnasts compete to music in their floor routines but men don't 
• And I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes 
• Kumars natural gas thesis
• Everything you need to know about COVID-19 vaccines 
• Persuading investors: A video based study
• What it is like hauling nuclear weapons across the country 
• How to learn stuff quickly 
• Notes on Peru // Notes on Spain
• The “GameStop Narrative” and Post Mortem vs. “Hypothetical Reality” 
• Deep Dive into Plastic Monomers, Additives, and Processing Aids
• Unicorn Market Cap, June 2021 (Almost Post-Pandemic Edition) 
• You are Not Lazy or Undisciplined. You Have Internal Resistance. 
• Voice clone of Anthony Bourdain prompts synthetic media ethics questions 
• How Dangerous are Solar Storms? 
• Blender Bot 2.0: An open source chatbot that builds long-term memory and searches the internet 
• Deepmind alphafold open source github 
• Grad school is worse for public health than STDs 
• The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday 
• The Failures That Made Ian Fleming 
• Holden Karnofsky 
• All Possible Views About Humanity's Future Are Wild 
• Tracking ransomware payments 
• How I requested my photographs from the Department of Homeland Security 
• Alan Turing in America 
• The history of karate
• Why do we use R rather than Excel? 
• Regarding Michael Pollan’s New Book This is Your Mind on Plants
• Is planting trees as good for the Earth as everyone says? 
• Magna Carta Scientiae 
• Thiel Aggregation 
• Securing Prosperity 
• Against Bostromian Sophistry Writing college essays for rich kids 
• How to build a small town in Texas 
• Poisson's Equation is the Most Powerful Tool not yet in your Toolbox 
• YC's Co-founder matching program 
• Steve Jobs in Kyoto 
• Simple, solar powered water desalination 
• Does Moral Philosophy Drive Moral Progress? 
• A tale of two Talebs 
• Best of Balaji 
• Venture Vocab 
• Stripe Atlas; the first five years and 20,000 startups 
• Advice on careers, finance, and life from Harvard Business School's Class of 1963 
• Book Review: How Asia Works 
• Peter Thiel and the massive IRA account 
• Chemical space is big. Really big.
• Completing the human genome 
• My favorite Chad Jones writing 
• The 23 rules for storytelling while fundraising
• How startup equity really works 
  • There are two more catches:
    • Options usually expire within 90 days of your leaving — so you have to either pay up or give them up
    • If you pay up, you also owe taxes on your paper gains — the difference between your strike price and the current valuation
  • First order of business is the exercise window. Instead of taking the punishing 90 day window, ask for 10 years. You can frame it like this: “I believe in the potential of X and I’m excited to take part in the upside. It’s important that I can do that regardless of my cash position at a specific moment in time.”
• Boring Problems Need Attention Too 
  • It was a busy summer day in June. I was trying to solve what seemed like a simple problem: counting the number of words in the first chapter of the American novel, Moby Dick. I decided to try out four different text editors, Google Docs, Microsoft Word, Grammarly, and Apple’s Pages.
  • The results surprised me. Each of the four text editors gave me a different word count:
    • Google Docs: 1655 words
    • Microsoft Word: 1663 words
    • Grammarly: 1648 words
    • Pages: 1679 words
  • So, which result do I believe?
  • This variation in result may not sound important, but it might depending on what you do. Imagine the variation in your earnings if you are a writer or editor who is paid by the word count?
• Cybereason: 80% of orgs that paid the ransom were hit again
• What happens in an IPO? - Part 1 
• Design on a deadline: How Notion pulled itself back from the brink of failure 
• After 50 Years Of The War On Drugs, 'What Good Is It Doing For Us? 
  • "During months of interviews for this project, NPR found a growing consensus across the political spectrum — including among some in law enforcement — that the drug war simply didn't work."
• The Consilience Project 
• #[[Daniel Schmactenberger]] website
  • http://www.magic-flight.com/pub/uvsm_1/
  • https://civilizationemerging.com/resources/websites/
• A New Era for Mechanical CAD
• Would You Buy Shares in Your Favorite Musician? #
• Threads on Product Management 
• OpenHistoricalMap 
• Economist writing every day 
• Why is lumber so expensive right now; factors driving up the market 
• Calculus By and For Young People Worksheets #Mathematics #calculus
• DeepMind says reinforcement learning is ‘enough’ to reach general AI 
• Who is Angela Cullen? Everything about Lewis Hamilton's assistant 
• Measuring the Algorithmic Efficiency of Neural Networks 
  • Three factors drive the advance of AI: algorithmic innovation, data, and the amount of compute available for training. Algorithmic progress has traditionally been more difficult to quantify than compute and data. In this work, we argue that algorithmic progress has an aspect that is both straightforward to measure and interesting: reductions over time in the compute needed to reach past capabilities. We show that the number of floating-point operations required to train a classifier to AlexNet-level performance on ImageNet has decreased by a factor of 44x between 2012 and 2019. This corresponds to algorithmic efficiency doubling every 16 months over a period of 7 years. By contrast, Moore's Law would only have yielded an 11x cost improvement. We observe that hardware and algorithmic efficiency gains multiply and can be on a similar scale over meaningful horizons, which suggests that a good model of AI progress should integrate measures from both.
• Google is using Ai to design its next generation of AI chips more quickly than humans 
• Vermeer 
  • After you design your shot in AR, we’ll handle the rest. No need to own a drone or describe your vision to a pilot. One of Vermeer’s drone operators will take a drone to location, and your flight plan will execute autonomously, producing the exact real-world footage you designed.
• Restricted Data: The History of Nuclear Secrecy in the United States 
• Meditations; Marcus Aurelius -Translation 
• Venture Capital Equity Financing Documents: What You Need to Know 
• (Trying To) Study Textbooks Effectively: A Year of Experimentation 
• Why We Are Publishing the Tax Secrets of the .001% 
• Language Learning with Netflix 
• What makes quantum computing so hard to explain? 
• The price of batteries has declined by 97% in the last three decades 
• How Inevitable Is the Concept of Numbers? 
• MIT Engineers Have Discovered a Completely New Way of Generating Electricity #
  • "using tiny carbon particles that can create an electric current simply by interacting with an organic solvent in which they’re floating. The particles are made from crushed carbon nanotubes (blue) coated with a Teflon-like polymer (green)."
• How the Web Works Part III: HTTP & REST 
• A first lesson in meta-rationality 
• A Lifetime of Systems Thinking
• Submarine Cable Map 2021 
  • This new edition depicts 464 cable systems and 1,245 landing stations that are currently active or under construction
• Mathematicians identify threshold at which shapes give way 
• Recommended Data Repositories 
• Algorithmic Botany - the website of the Biological Modeling and Visualization research group in the Department of Computer Science at the University of Calgary. 
• A Concrete Introduction to Probability (using Python) 
• Arduino trip wire 
• United Adding Supersonic Speeds with New Agreement to Buy Aircraft from Boom Supersonic 
• How not to redact a warhead 
• Stack Overflow Sold to Tech Giant Prosus for $1.8 Billion 
• Stanford CS Curriculum 
• Stripe commits $8M to six new carbon removal companies 
• Collusion Rings Threaten the Integrity of Computer Science Research 
• Why Physicists Tried to Put a Ferret in a Particle Accelerator 
• How to get started in audio engineering
• OpenAI investing 100m to help AI companies make the most positive impact possible
• Audit over 650 CS Classes from top universities 
• How I raised a $11M seed as a first-time, female, solo founder for a biotech moonshot 
• The problem with reinforced concrete
• What are the returns to R&D? 
• The Myth of the Myth of the Lone Genius
• Entangled Life: How Fungi Make Our Worlds, Change Our Minds and Shape Our Futures 
• AWS flashcards 
• The Profound Potential of Elon Musk’s New Rocket 
• How to get into investment banking 
• Explorable Explanations 
  • Adventures in cognitive biases
• Imagining an alternative to Thiel, Bezos & Musk's designs for a stressful dystopia. 
• Zero Knowledge Proofs 
• https://tmrwedition.com/2021/06/13/the-agony-and-the-ecstacy-of-deep-brain-stimulation-surgery/
• What We Learned Doing Fast Grants 
• Ghost Knowledge
  • Request and pledge for other writers to cover a specific topic #[[crowdfunding]]
  • 80% to writer, 10% to requesters, 10% to platform for operation