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A nice Bezos tribute from @stratechery: https://stratechery.com/2021/the-relentless-jeff-bezos/I want to correct/revise one minor side point… .@benthompson writes: “That Amazon was even considered a tech company, at least for its first
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After reading the post this afternoon, I read most of it out loud to my wife just now.It was hard, because I was alternately laughing and crying.https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1352388517209415685 Why does this
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What's an example of a significant resource that the world has actually run out of?Not a local, temperature shortage, or a resource that we gracefully transitioned away from, but like
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Only three chapters into @CharlesCMann's *The Wizard and the Prophet* and why didn't anyone insist that I read this book before? Super-relevant to progress studies.Just finished the Borlaug chapter, which
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This image gets posted a lot lately, and not everyone knows what it means.It's a reference to “survivor bias”: a statistical problem in which a sample is non-representative because some
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Smallpox was one of the worst diseases humanity has ever faced—and also the only human disease we have ever eradicated. It was also the first disease with a vaccine.You may
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If you want a single, vivid, and frankly disgusting example to hold in mind to remember how much our lives have improved over the last ~150 years…Consider *shit*.Literally, excrement. How
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So, the vaccine is here. Have we had any celebrations?https://twitter.com/jasoncrawford/status/1295455601829408768 Has President Trump called the BioNTech or Moderna founders or chief scientists, to congratulate them on their accomplishment
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Today Google @DeepMind announced that their deep learning system AlphaFold has achieved unprecedented levels of accuracy on the “protein folding problem”, a grand challenge problem in computational biochemistry.What is this
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I am not an “optimist”.Well, not exactly. Though I sing the praises of progress on @rootsofprogress, and though I paint a bold vision for the future, I have hesitated to
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