Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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The cult of Obsidian: Why people are obsessed with the note-taking app
Boston Dynamics robot dog Spot. Now has an independent mind using ChatGPT.
Writing for professional and technical audiences
The Emptiness Of Literature Written For The Market
New devices could change the way we measure blood pressure
People are speaking with ChatGPT for hours, bringing 2013’s Her closer to reality
Last week, we related a story in which AI researcher Simon Willison spent a long time talking to ChatGPT verbally. "I had an hourlong conversation while walking my dog the other day," he told Ars for that report. "At one point, I thought I'd turned it off, and I saw a pelican, and I said to my dog, 'Oh, wow, a pelican!' And my AirPod went, 'A pelican, huh? That's so exciting for you! What's it doing?' I've never felt so deeply like I'm living out the first ten minutes of some dystopian sci-fi movie."
Thomas Edison's concrete houses
Quit your job (oldie but goldie)
choose your own adventure } the singularity is near
The Death of a Public Intellectual
Imagine toiling away in the obscurity of some dark university office building. Thrown into the limelight because you have the next interesting thing to say at the right moment when the world is paying attention. Milk it for all it’s worth. Get that bag. Epistemologically speaking it’s a weak standard, but this is a busy world, and you need some heuristic to sift through it quickly. Know this pattern so you can cast off these men at their peak instead of riding it all the way down.
And take note when one doesn’t fall, study them the hardest.
How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor?
Particle Accelerator on a Chip Hits Penny-Size > Nano electron guns can help zap cancers and drive new classes of lasers
AI can catalogue a forest’s inhabitants simply by listening
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— Robert
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