Derek Lowe on the 2024 Medicine Nobel, for microRNA.
Asterisk mag on development and small businesses. I feel like the title is a little editorialized here, since it’s not really about killing small businesses but rather scaling some of them (at the expense of the less efficient redundancies).
Sasha Chapin reflects on the launch of his product.
Excellent post by Packy on the system turning men into machines. This is actually exactly the definition of involution that I came up with while thinking about the Chinese education system, which is the inevitable zero-sum red queen’s race that occurs when the standard path is made into the only path to success.
Construction Physics on port automation, and whether it actually improves port efficiency. It would be ironic if the east coast ports became (temporarily) the most efficient ports in the world by leapfrogging it’s competitors using modern AI technology. That being said, here’s a response by Cremieux questioning the sources used for that claim.
Hinton gets the Nobel? Post on reddit has the same joke which immediately popped up in my head, which is “Schmidhuber got robbed!” Probably I’ll read a couple blogs about the nature of credit and categorization re the Nobels in the upcoming days, which may even have the same joke (Edit: lol).
