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- you use AI-generated argument in a discussion. - your co-worker counters with AI-generated argument. - you re-counter with AI-generated rebuttal. - the co-worker counter the re-counter with another AI-generated… etc.

Turtles all the way down.

On how large language models are shaping us as much as we’re shaping them.

The Catalyst: RNA and the Quest to Unlock Life's Deepest Secrets by Thomas R. Cech — This is a standout for me. Spotlight on RNA with interesting historical context of the field.

AI chatbots differ in their ability to handle long calculations involving single-digit numbers — https://userfriendly.substack.com/p/discover-how-mistral-lar...

Coincidentally, I just posted about how well LLMs handle adding long strings of numbers: https://userfriendly.substack.com/p/discover-how-mistral-lar...

CrowdStrike achieved PMF - Product-Market Fiasco!

Seeing the world of startups with the lenses of Darwinian evolution through natural selection

Connecting User Experience, Customer Experience, Digital Transformation and Innovation with Scale-Scope Lens

“If the company has 100 million users as it has claimed, and converted 1 percent of them to paying customers, that’s good enough to put them on a $200 million plus run rate.” https://twitter.com/om/status/1690903567551586304?s=20

“It’s fair to ask about the underwriting discipline of VC firms that put most of their liquidity in a single bank with this kind of risk profile.”

I’m seeing more of this post-pandemic. I like it. It’s more evolved than just view-only PDF. Now it’s scan QR to access menu listing, add items to cart and then checkout to payment. Some even with robot server bringing the food to you. Seamless and easier than waiting for a waiter to take my order, especially in a busy restaurant.

Should rename this to Why Adobe acquire Figma?

Sean Carroll’s Mindscape The Michael Shermer Show Wisdom from the Top with Guy Raz

Human minds demand coherent explanations and the book supplies it. The book supplies conjectures that “feel” right and the many readers, well, who have the time and skills to prove them. The soft science (of psychology) is hard and to generalize findings from a situation or controlled experiment environment will be fraught with errors.

If in glasshouse, then do not to throw stones.