Sapere Aude
Month: August 2020
The anglerfish deleted its immune system to fuse with its mate
There are few animals more bizarre than the anglerfish, a species that has so much trouble finding a mate that when the male and female do connect underwater, males actually fuse their tissue with the females for life. After the merger, the 2 share a single respiratory and digestive system
Social Movements Are Pushing Google Sheets to the Breaking Point. A sea of viral Google Sheets and Docs that break attests to the need for scalable collaboration tools.
this seems like a success disaster for gsuite
always great to have a new chinese street food available.
TikTok doesn’t bump into the negative network effects of using a social graphs at scale because it doesn’t really have one. It is more of a pure interest graph, one derived from its short video content, and the beauty is its algorithm is so efficient that it its interest graph can be assembled without imposing much of a burden on the user at all. It is passive personalization, learning through consumption. Because the videos are so short, the volume of training data a user provides per unit of time is high. Because the videos are entertaining, this training process feels effortless, even enjoyable, for the user.
the reason tiktok has taken off is because it’s recommendation algorithm is really good, and it doesn’t need a social graph to thrive.
the industry was on an unsustainable pace where they produce 4 collections a year, and have 1000s of losers travel from 1 fashion show to the next. what a deadweight loss, not to mention all the environmental destruction.
surprisingly, blades chip on the surfaces, even when soft hair meets super hard steel.
Best Novel
A Memory Called Empire by Arkady MartineBest Novella
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar and Max GladstoneBest Novelette
Emergency Skin by N.K. Jemisin ( Forward Collection (Amazon))Best Short Story
“As the Last I May Know”,by S.L. HuangBest Series
The Expanse by James S. A. Corey
the assholes at the city would rather punish the person pointing out their problems, instead of fixing them. how about we cut the city budget to eliminate all the graft around “licenses”?
Gregor J. Rothfuss 