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JUST IN: Pleasure Beach, CT closed for the entire summer after officials found multiple species of ticks—including the invasive Asian longhorned tick.

Three scientists (Christian Catalini, Jane Wu, Kevin Zhang) have written a very interesting article in the Harvard Business Review whose views I share; a scientist wrote to me via email and talked to me about the article. The message: the potential danger for the labor market is

a dog called Bradford vibing out to some music

Bamboo is a far better windbreak, causes no damage, trees fall down and damage, and are far more invasive than bamboo (which can be interplanted unlike big trees). our little town probably spends $2 million per year on trees vs. power lines, and $millions storm damage.

Regular consumption of moderate amounts of coffee and caffeine has been tied to significantly reduced risk of developing multiple cardiometabolic diseases, including type 2 diabetes, coronary heart disease, and stroke, according to recently published in the Journal of Clinical

Very good data graphic by Financial Times: tied in tightly to news report, and directly labeled like a map, with label colors matching data line colors. Readers go straight into content. And readers don’t have to memorize a unique one-time color code lurking out in the margin.

Unless and until agents really do work at expert level, the benefits of AI use are going to be contingent on the skills of the AI user, the jagged abilities of the AI you use, the process into which you integrate use, the experience you have with the AI system & the task itself

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.” - Carl Sagan, Cosmos

My dog set up stuffed animal for my husband and me while we were getting ready for bed

Carl Sagan predicting the rise of AI in 1977

The brain requires a constant supply of vitamins and minerals for energy metabolism, antioxidant defense, neurotransmitter synthesis, ion homeostasis, metabolism, and to maintain basal cognitive function. Surprisingly, the science on the impact of nutrition and brain health is

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. - Galileo Galilei, Letter to the Grand Duchess Christina

Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.' - Isaac Asimov

I've never made a map in my life, one shotted this in qgis

NASA just saved Voyager 1 mission by successfully reviving frozen thrusters from almost 24 billion kilometers away.

On finding and getting to the right doctor Will post full video tomorrow's Ground Truths

John Burn-Murdoch and FT doing smart, different superb long-range news based on data.

I am starting to think sycophancy is going to be a bigger problem than pure hallucination as LLMs improve. Models that won’t tell you directly when you are wrong (and justify your correctness) are ultimately more dangerous to decision-making than models that are sometimes wrong.

How the electrocardiogram can identify previously undiagnosed structural heart disease with A.I. alone, better than cardiologists with A.I. support nature Pierre Elias, MD Timothy Poterucha nature.com/articles/s4158…

4 years ago today, Bob Dylan unveiled „Shadow Kingdom“ — a dreamlike transmission from an undisclosed location, directed by Alma Har’el. A ghost band on screen, a different band on the recordings, and Dylan reimagining his early work like never before. #bobdylan #shadowkingdom