Miscellaneous Links #47

AI Genome modeling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2 Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn’t really explain how it’ll help developers OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics Vibe Coding – A New System of the World Robotics How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material […]

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AI

Genome modeling and design across all domains of life with Evo 2

Microsoft hypes another generative AI model but doesn’t really explain how it’ll help developers

OthelloGPT learned a bag of heuristics

Vibe Coding – A New System of the World

Robotics

How to get a robot collective to act like a smart material

Why fast-learning robots are wearing Meta glasses

A springtail-like jumping robot: Diminutive device can leap 23 times its body length

Tech

“A calculator app? Anyone could make that.”

Ugly Code and Dumb Things

One Legged Stools [Mars, Moon, Asteroids]

The Birth of Chipzilla: Or, the early history of Intel Corporation

Nikola: How to Parlay An Ocean of Lies Into a Partnership With the Largest Auto OEM in America [published 2020]

Health

Improving mental health by training the suppression of
unwanted thoughts

Zoë Harcombe on Dietary Guidelines for Americans 2025-2030 [“The DGAs are upside down”]

The Importance of Maintaining a Low Omega-6/Omega-3 Ratio for Reducing the Risk of Autoimmune Diseases, Asthma, and Allergies

Tucker Goodrich on Bryan Johnson on Seed Oils [update: looks like Bryan Johnson may have changed his tune on seed oils]

WHY YOU NEED MORE SPERMIDINE … AND WHY WE STILL LOVE CHEESE

Spermidine Prolongs Lifespan and Prevents Liver Fibrosis and Hepatocellular Carcinoma by Activating MAP1S-Mediated Autophagy

Spermidine delays aging in humans

More

Interactive 3D model of San Francisco’s Sutro Tower

Round About Four Dimensions – Exploring the Unknown

The hardest working font in Manhattan

Superfast muscles control dove’s trill

Bill to enact legislation that would designate Bigfoot as the official California state cryptid

The Enduring Mystery of “Moldy Mary”

Can’t count sheep? You could have aphantasia [2015]

knitted a functioning breadboard lol

What’s Up With That ‘Chicken Farmer I Still Love You’ Rock?