Author: Gregor J. Rothfuss

Salvator Mundi decoded

The world’s costliest painting depicts a glass sphere with curious optical properties. Computer scientists figured out what the artist was getting at.

After comparing their renderings with the original, they have concluded that the orb is not solid at all. Instead, they show that the painting is a realistic physical representation of a hollow sphere with a radius of 6.8 centimeters but a thickness of just 1.3 millimeters.

Doctor delusions

Your patients’ last doctor was worse than you. Your patients love you Patients often come to you, but never leave you You’ve probably successfully treated most of your patients You know what you know, but you don’t know what you don’t know Your victories belong to you, your failures belong to Nature You do a good job satisfying your own values

Compact trash

A simple idea to reduce the tremendous volume that trash takes up. I always crush my cans and am surprised others are not.

Go to any coffee shop in America, and as you look down the silver-lined waste tube thingy, you’ll see paper and plastic cups in an ungainly pile, taking up way more space than they ought. However, this café in Korea has a better idea

AI applied to Education

The future of online education is adaptive assessment, not for testing, but for learning. Incorrect answers are not random but betray specific assumptions and patterns of thought. Analysis of answers, therefore, can be used to guide students to exactly that lecture that needs to be reviewed and understood to achieve mastery of the material. Computer-adaptive testing will thus become computer-adaptive learning.

Ebike delivery

Around the world, we have seen how freight companies use cargo bikes to move goods around dense urban neighborhoods more efficiently. NYC’s Department of Transportation is taking a step toward alleviating at least 1 of those causes of congestion: It’s implementing a pilot program to allow electric, pedal-assisted cargo bikes to make deliveries throughout Manhattan’s central business district. The goals of the pilot: reduce congestion, and improve safety on city streets.

A designey solution to this could be the Armadillo:

Bike purists may scoff that the Armadillo looks like it was designed by an engineer. (Germany’s Berliner Morgenpost calls it “a mix of go-kart, bicycle and van.”) But these are highly functional vehicles that a lot of thought went into: – Though they can carry 300kg, they’re only 86cm wide, meaning they can easily fit on bike paths “without causing problems for other cyclists.”

Multiplex editing

Enhancing Organs for Cryonics, Space and Transplants

They are able to multiplex edit on the repeating gene sequences. The repeating gene sequences are key to many aspects of antiaging and cancer and other diseases. They are working to multiplex editing for enhancing organs. The can make the organs more resistant to cryopreservation and disease immunity. They can make people better able to travel in space and be more radiation resistant