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TSMC at the head of history’s tide: two high walls and one sharp knife

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Learning your own attachment style for better parenting

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Why are so many unprofitable companies the best performing stocks this year?

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The Science of Wisdom

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MTG: Magic the Gathering and Metagaming

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The Rise of Creativity

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Operations research and the rise of applied game theory

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Using Zipf’s law and Shannon’s information entropy to help us find alien life

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Updating Herd Immunity Models for the US: Implications for the Covid-19 Response

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A haemagglutination test for rapid detection of antibodies to SARS-CoV-2

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Review of Substack in 2020

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Neither Nasty nor Brutish

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Data Sources for the Professional Investor

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The Persistence of Outcomes for Descendants of the Age of Mass Migration [pdf]

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The Shape of Belief Curves

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Evolution of Covid-19 cases in selected countries: past the herd immunity peak?

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Fifty shades of QE; Research in the bubble

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There's more to communities than Facebook goat groups

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Newton's 3 Body Problem

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On the Neurochemistry of Deep Work

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The case for Cameo: One man's trashy is another man's treasure

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The Mere Presence of One’s Own Smartphone Reduces Available Cognitive Capacity

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The Distribution of Vaccines in the 19th Century

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Basics of Neural Networks

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Expanding the measurement of culture with a sample of two billion humans

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6.6M households predicted to cancel their pay TV subscriptions

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Marketing and Messaging in the Time of Coronavirus

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Antibody-dependent enhancement and SARS-CoV-2 vaccines and therapies

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Seeing things a different way; simple test for aphantasia

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Also interesting to note that the hype came a while after the release of GPT-3 (the tweet was about a month after), and that many of the examples could have possibly been generated from GPT-2 (which didn't get as much hype). Put another way, you could show ppl GPT-2 examples from a year ago and claim they were from GPT-3, and I don't think many would know the difference.

I do think GPT-3 has shown improvement, and it's a step forward, but it probably tells more about how humans interpret rather than how AI might work. Wrote about it more in the link below:

https://avoidboringpeople.substack.com/p/doctor-gpt-3

Agreed - it can really be the little things and moments that matter. When we've become focused on creating camera worthy moments at the expense of having an enjoyable, satisfying moment, that's a problem.

I don't think there's a default "oh just don't use instagram/cameras/phones" reaction that we should jump to; as with everything there's a certain amount of usage that's good and bad.