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I went to China's national museum of art today & saw something interesting. At the exhibit for the 40th anniversary of reform & opening, Deng Xiaoping was hardly to be seen. Xi Jinping — and his father — stole the show. (1/ )

1/ How to Size Your Investments (AKA A brief summary of what I have learned about the Kelly Criterion)

VOICE | Most B2B companies do not have any distinctive brand assets, which is the foundation of effective brand management. Peter Weinberg & Jon Lombardo estimate that brand mismanagement is costing B2B firms billions of dollars in potential sales. adweek.it/46g2TCH

For everyone writing application letters right now here is the famous rejected rejection letter in case it’s needed particle.physics.ucdavis.edu/rumor/doku.php…

Breakthroughs of 2023

Life tip: When you sign up for anything online, put the website’s name as your middle name. That way when you receive spam/advert emails, you will know who sold your info.

When lawyers are no longer allowed to practise, they are disbarred. And when priests are stripped of their position, they are defrocked. This is a thread of suggestions for terms for other professions, starting with this one… When florists are sacked, they are deflowered

21 hours riding the World’s Longest Iron Ore Train in the Sahara Desert In 2020 I embarked on a journey aboard the Iron Ore Train of the Sahara, one of the longest and heaviest in the world. It promised to be the adventure of a lifetime. Full STORY 🧵⬇️

The people in a village on the Niger River in Africa were losing fellow villagers at such a rapid rate that they had to call in the Army to hunt down the culprit: a 22-foot, 2,500-pound crocodile.

"Eat at a local restaurant tonight. Get the cream sauce. Have a cold pint at 4 o’clock in a mostly empty bar. Go somewhere you’ve never been. Listen to someone you think may have nothing in common with you. Order the steak rare. Eat an oyster. Have a negroni. Have two. Be open

Here's a little idea I had for how to boost America's breakthrough research in the energy technology field: noahpinion.blog/p/energy-bell-…

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1/Here's something I've been wondering about recently: How did the U.S. miss the battery revolution? With every other technological revolution, we anticipated it well in advance, and as a result we were the first -- or one of the first -- to take advantage of it.

My main takeaway from academia is that "Dr Awkward" is the perfect palindrome

Here's an AI hype case study. The paper "The Rapid Adoption of Generative AI" has been making the rounds based on the claim that 40% of US adults are using generative AI. But that includes even someone who asked ChatGPT to write a limerick or something once in the last month.

breakthroughs of 2024

An excellent read if you want to understand the perspective of one of creators of the FrontierMath benchmark on OpenAI o3

The rate of scientific discovery is going to accelerate alongside the rate of AI innovation. What a time to be alive.

Despite being a paragon of modernism, it's interesting that Apple always seems to choose traditional architecture when available.

On the anniversary of the sinking of the Titanic, we thought we'd answer a question that's often asked, "If they raised the Mary Rose, why not raise the Titanic?" Allow our scaled diagram to explain...