This series is an absolute mind bender. What if the obesity epidemic (which has accelerated) is entirely caused by human synthesized compounds and has nothing to do with diet, carbs, sugar, fat, calories or anything else we turn to for weight loss? slimemoldtimemold.com/2021/07/07/a-c…

One day we'll tell stories about how people thought language models were intelligent with the same incredulity of people thinking that cameras steal your soul, or that the train in the movie was actually going to crash into people.

Pretty bleak visual from NYT today:

This is the best metaphor for machine learning I have ever seen.

This deceiving grid tricks you into thinking there's a curved line somewhere, but you can't find it. The purposefully placed gray lines of squares in a curved formation will induce your peripheral vision to interpolate curved lines [read more: buff.ly/3oKqWXa]

Another common question I’m answering working with scaling tech companies is… Q. How much of your r&d spend should be focused on platform work? A. 50%, and most teams are way off what it should be. Let me explain…🧵 (1/21)

This 1881 map is an amazing work that shows the travel time from London to... everywhere. Not only is it one of the first isochronic maps (marking distances that could be traveled in the same time) but it drew on steamship tables, post office records, and private voyage records.

Glad this settles once and for all the Hawaiian pizza debate… 🍍🍕

Fun little trick in the Sunday New York Times crossword yesterday: the central theme clue was "The better of two sci-fi franchises", and regardless of whether you put Star Wars or Star Trek, the crossing clues worked

love that humans have walked on the moon but can’t determine the biggest couch that could fit around a corner

The earliest known photograph of a human. 1838, Paris. The man getting his shoe shined and the shoe-shiner had no idea they were making history.

🎙️L'entreprise qui débute, a-t-elle plus de marge de manœuvre, qu'une autre qui est implantée et reconnue ? Dans ce nouvel épisode du podcast Tech.Rocks, Benjamin Chino nous révèle les failles du système tech, au micro d'Olivier (@[email protected]), 🎧S04EP07👉 bit.ly/3F3izMV

Made a playlist for your weekend hike

"The role of management is to change the system rather than badgering individuals to do better." -W. Edwards Deming #classic #leadership Especially in collaborative knowledge work, increased productivity never comes about through people working harder.

As a leader, there may be no skill more important than emotional self-regulation. I struggled with this for a lot of my career (which of course as a woman, made me extra worried about being a trope). Thread >>

E-bikes are as close to a silver bullet for achieving net zero as you can get. '3 studies indicated a reduction in car use of 20% - 30%' We should be moving heaven and earth to enable their uptake

"Wanting more information is often just a form of procrastination." Russ Roberts

In an age of information overabundance, critical ignoring is as important as critical thinking.

Up next Olivier (@[email protected]), CTO BlaBlaCar took to the stage to let the audience actively shape the outcome of their own CTO adventure 👀