The bandwidth of experience. Below, everything that touches this field, including pieces that live mostly in neighboring territory.
When people say “the five senses,” they usually mean vision, hearing, taste, smell, and touch. But our bodies actually gather information from the world—and from within ourselves—in many other ways. Below is a…
I was heartbroken when Harvard Business Review editors decided to title my 2003 article “Don’t Trust Your Gut” ( certainly a buzzier catchphrase than “How To Leverage Your Intuition With Analytics” or other…
As a final homage to the timeless observations of Alexis de Tocqueville in Democracy in America (1835), there is a lot to learn from his description of the constant pursuit of material (and rapid)…
Anastasia Borovykh, you are right, humans are good at "taste", knowing what is interesting or not, distinguishing what's meaningful from what is just truth without meaning. Human taste is found at the two end…
For a few months now I have enjoyed reading the regular (mostly truncated) email I receive from TuringPost and today I took the plunge (see why below) and became a paid subscriber -apparently on founder Ksenia…
And I thought that the 63-degree Celsius egg (or 145.4 F), whereby you leave a whole egg in its shell in a 63-degree (60-70 to control how runny you want the yolk) water bath for one hour, was the pinnacle of…
Finding a picture of myself in my mid twenties is the one way I realize I got older. Compare it to my profile pic and you might wonder how this is the same person. But if you had seen me every day since then,…
(Doing a little A/B testing here to see if a picture of "mating" fruit flies attracts more views than a link to the Nature article: In a surprising turn of events, scientists have discovered that even in fruit…
In the sacred list of examples where innovation does not simply replace some existing technology with something faster, better, cheaper but creates an entirely new category of behaviors, is television, a…
A timely review article about “The role of Ultra Processed Foods (UPF) in obesity” (by a team from the University of Sao Paulo and NYU) summarizes a lot of evidence that sounds obvious e.g., diets “high in UPF…
I was heartbroken when Harvard Business Review editors decided to title my 2003 article “Don’t Trust Your Gut” ( certainly a buzzier catchphrase than “How To Leverage Your Intuition With Analytics” or other…
I love this introduction to scent design by Taylor Rayne at Asimov Press (Scent, in silico, and the role that machine learning and genAI is playing in the field's recent advances: Google DeepMind's Principal…
That's the title of a fantastic blog post by Anu A. (link in the comments). The snapshot from jack friks is from the post and I included it because I can relate soooooo much. Another nugget comes from a link…
I recently had the privilege of hearing about an unpublished study that would save (academic, corporate or nonprofit) scientists in the field a lot of misery if they knew about it. But the study “failed” in…
An important Nature paper by a Google DeepMind team (first author Junhyuk Oh) became available online unedited to accelerate the dissemination of ideas: this paper shows that Reinforcement Learning (RL)…
Oh me . . . The protagonist student (who today would be called a user) knows that +4 is not 3. Therein lies a lesson that applies to LLMs and other blackboxy contraptions: you better have knowledge of the…
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