I've now slid into choosing now to be the time for making lots of changes to my Linode (more)

Jason Cohen: Selecting the right product metrics. I used to believe that “one true metric” (north-star metric) with a smattering of operational indicators was the best way to focus a team on “what matters most.” But I’ve come to believe in a more comprehensive system. (more)

see Generative AI

In molecular biology, messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) is a single-stranded molecule of RNA that corresponds to the genetic sequence of a gene, and is read by a ribosome in the process of synthesizing a protein. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Messenger_RNA (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Medical Roundup #2 (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Medical Roundup #1 (more)

sports coach, business coach, life coaching, CoachBot

Lead poisoning, also known as plumbism and saturnism, is a type of metal poisoning caused by lead in the body.[2] Symptoms may include abdominal pain, constipation, headaches, irritability, memory problems, infertility, and tingling in the hands and feet.[1] It causes almost 10% of intellectual disability of otherwise unknown cause and can result in behavioral problems.[2] Some of the effects are permanent.[2] In severe cases, anemia, seizures, coma, or death may occur. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lead_poisoning

It is estimated that of the roughly 150,000 people who die each day across the globe, about two thirds—100,000 per day—die of age-related causes.[6] In industrialized nations the proportion is much higher, reaching 90%. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cause_of_death (more)

Generative artificial intelligence (generative AI, GenAI,[1] or GAI) is artificial intelligence capable of generating text, images, videos, or other data using generative models,[2] often in response to prompts.[3][4] Generative AI models learn the patterns and structure of their input training data and then generate new data that has similar characteristics.[5][6] Improvements in transformer-based deep neural networks, particularly large language models (LLMs), enabled an AI boom of generative AI systems in the early 2020s. These include chatbots such as ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini and LLaMA, text-to-image artificial intelligence image generation systems such as Stable Diffusion, Midjourney and DALL-E, and text-to-video AI generators such as Sora.[7][8][9][10] Companies such as OpenAI, Anthropic, Microsoft, Google, and Baidu as well as numerous smaller firms have developed generative AI models. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Generative_artificial_intelligence

Martin Cagan: Product Predictions 2024. (They're more worries than net predictions.) I picked the ten most common topics that people ask me about: (more)

non-pharmaceutical intervention - in the COVID-19 context, that means everything except the vaccine and medicines

Martin Hardee quotes Edward Tufte on Structured Writing: Dr Spock's Baby Care is a best-selling owner's manual for the most complicated "product" imaginable - and it only has two levels of headings. You people have 8 levels of hierarchy and I haven't even stopped counting yet. No wonder you think it's complicated.

WikiEngine I built for my WikiLog and later PrivateWiki. (more)

From doomscrolling to sex: being a boy in 2024. It was two separate conversations that made me think properly about what life might be like as a boy these days. (more)

The Dada Era of Internet Memes. Last December, a factory in the Chinese province of Hebei called Donghua Jinlong posted a marketing video to TikTok showing aerial clips of its campus set to a jaunty tune. A caption proudly declared, in English, “Since 1979, Glycine comes from here.” (more)

50 Completely True Things (specifically about Israel-Palestine) (more)

Darkhorse Analytics: Data looks better naked. Edward Tufte introduced the concept of data-ink in his 1983 classic The Visual Display of Quantitative Information. In it he states "Data-ink is the non-erasable core of the graphic, the non-redundant ink arranged in response to variation in the numbers represented" (more)

Sven Schnieders: We Used To Eat A Lot More Without Becoming Obese. The mainstream theory regarding the obesity crisis is that people consume excessive calories and move insufficiently - “calories in, calories out.” Alternative nutritional perspectives, such as Keto and Veganism, challenge this narrative only to some extent (more)

Chris F on Complex Adaptive Media Systems (CAMS). “We shape our tools and then our tools shape us. The medium is the message: Marshall McLuhan would be disappointed by how we are thinking about AI-enabled media. Our focus is on forging the tools and not wielding them. When we have the tools, we are engaged in acts of mimicry. (ugh this piece seems mostly magical thinking around LLM, blockchain, and metaverse) (more)