Benefits of Aquaphor on Face – MyDCSI

May 15, 2023

https://www.mydcsi.com/2022/11/14/benefits-of-aquaphor-on-face-2


Opinion | Soft Pants: The Post-Pandemic Benefit That’s Here to Stay – The New York Times

May 14, 2023

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/05/13/opinion/soft-hard-pants.html vs hard pants


The inside story of ChatGPT: How OpenAI founder Sam Altman built the world’s hottest technology with bill ions from Microsoft | Fortune

May 13, 2023

https://archive.ph/2023.01.25-131857/https://fortune.com/longform/chatgpt-openai-sam-altman-microsoft/ https://archive.ph/rRvx1


Can A.I. Treat Mental Illness? | The New Yorker

May 13, 2023

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/03/06/can-ai-treat-mental-illness


Robert Lawrence | Harvard Kennedy School

May 13, 2023

https://www.hks.harvard.edu/faculty/robert-lawrence


“If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anyone”

May 13, 2023

https://hbr.org/2017/03/if-you-understand-how-the-brain-works-you-can-reach-anyone

Beard, Alison. (2017). If You Understand How the Brain Works, You Can Reach Anybody. Harvard Business Review, Mar/Apr 2017, Vol. 95 Issue 2, p 60‐62.

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People who express certain genes in the dopamine system tend to be curious, creative, spontaneous, energetic, and mentally flexible. They are risk-takers and seek novelty. People who have high serotonin activity (or who take SSRI antidepressants) are more sociable, more eager to belong. They’re quite traditional in their values and less inclined toward exploration. People expressive of the testosterone system are tough-minded, direct, decisive, skeptical, and assertive. They tend to be good at what we called rule-based systems—engineering, computers, mechanics, math, and music. And people who are expressive of the estrogen/oxytocin system tend to be intuitive, imaginative, trusting, empathetic, and contextual long-term thinkers. They are sensitive to people’s feelings, too, and typically have good verbal and social skills.
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Kickstand For Trek Road Bike – Cycling Kinetics

May 13, 2023

https://www.cyclingkinetics.com/products/trek-road-bike-kickstand


Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive over time

May 12, 2023

also the economist :

Papers and patents are becoming less disruptive

https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2023/01/04/papers-and-patents-are-becoming-less-disruptive

the NYT also had a write-up about this recently (linked below). Although it’s interesting, sometimes ‘disruptive’ science is over-hyped and over-valued, whereas incremental science can be under-appreciated.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/01/17/science/science-breakthroughs-disruption.html

but it is an interesting paper recently published:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-022-05543-x


How AI could change computing, culture and the course of history | The Economist

May 12, 2023

https://www.economist.com/essay/2023/04/20/how-ai-could-change-computing-culture-and-the-course-of-history

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As a way of presenting knowledge, llms promise to take both the practical and personal side of books further, in some cases abolishing them altogether. An obvious application of the technology is to turn bodies of knowledge into subject matter for chatbots. Rather than reading a corpus of text, you will question an entity trained on it and get responses based on what the text says. Why turn pages when you can interrogate a work as a whole?
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How to improve your digital diet for greater well-being | New Scientist

May 12, 2023

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634090-300-how-to-improve-your-digital-diet-for-greater-well-being/