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Just sat down at my desktop and navigated to a website that has only been designed for cell phones. Feeling a bit unresponsive rn myself.

I’d recommend Cycles of Invention and Discovery to anyone interested in the topic of building innovation systems

I’m interested to read Ben’s forthcoming proposal for unbundling academia. I wrote about why academia has been attractive to innovators here: www.wutbot.com/posts/the-co...

In Defense of Academia Identifying the baby in the bathwater

Enjoyed @ben-reinhardt.bsky.social ‘s piece In Defense of Academia, exploring what academia does well. t.co/Jzp2RgyqWD

Weird thought: is it possible to bioengineer an apatite with the Pb/Cu/Au substitutions in the correct positions, like regrowing teeth on a lattice of growth factors/amelobasts? Probably wouldn’t scale well evening possible

🎶Smooth like butter, a possible superconductor… hot like summer, works up to 127C https://www.science.org/content/blog-post/breaking-superconductor-news

“Low-Resource” Text Classification: A Parameter-Free Classification Method with Compressors Zhiying Jiang, Matthew Yang, Mikhail Tsirlin, Raphael Tang, Yiqin Dai, Jimmy Lin. Findings of the Association for Computational Linguistics: ACL 2023. 2023.

My contribution to ai safety was never paying for winzip: https://aclanthology.org/2023.findings-acl.426

Wait holdup there is a .zip TLD? Does that make sense?

Preprint on spotting fake papers in science: https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2023.05.06.23289563v1.full.pdf

Shows where careerist incentives are outpacing contributions to the scientist commons & need rebalance!

Bluesky doesn't embed video, but don't let that stop you from watching this clip of Michael Jackson doing the robot with Cher: https://youtu.be/s6lNFS6FCzA?t=277

Continuing to loudly insist that Elton John wrote a song about Jevons paradox

Michael Nielsen has a great Q about the replication crisis. I suspect this has something to do with how citations currently function as both a sort of toll you have to pay to get your work past review as well as a genealogy of your influences/inspiration. Many refs are just post facto due diligence.

NPR combed through 40 years of Weird Al bangers to rank his top hits. Needs moar polka medleys https://www.npr.org/2023/05/03/1171948750/40-songs-from-40-years-of-weird-al-yankovic

Great quote from Google's "We Have No Moat and I Must Scream" (https://www.semianalysis.com/p/google-we-have-no-moat-and-neither) paper.

I’m very curious about the contents of the “Data Doesn’t Do What You Think” internal Google link scrubbed from the leaked Google Moat Dread paper (https://www.semianalysis.com/) What doesn’t data do? What *do* I think? I have *questions* ...

Very excited about Michigan's PFAS Annihilator(https://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20230501005063/en/Revive-Environmental-PFAS-Annihilator%E2%84%A2-Deployed-in-First-to-Market-Commercial-Destruction-of-%E2%80%9CForever-Chemicals%E2%80%9D), hope Ohio gets one too in the spirit of friendly rivalry.

chatGPT is really good at transforming Unstructured Data into Structured Data with Surprises

I've been hedging on avocados all week. Let's see if that paid off ...🥑 #gaucamoleportfolio

ABBA's "Lay All Your Love On Me" sounds like it could be part of a Castlevania game soundtrack https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ln-Ua2teJKw

🌊 interests:
⚗️ metascience
🐱‍💻 tech, esp. HCI & the dweb
🖌️ sequential art, pixel art, drawing & illustration
📚 book recs of all sorts
🌿 Waldmeister flavor
🖋️ writing
🕸️ graph thinking (esp. Discourse Graphs: https://ask.pubpub.org)
🧮 tools & protocols for thought

Does quantity have a quality of its very own?
- Does the increasing volume of mid-quality research obscuring the real scientific frontier impose a cost worth more efforts at curation?
- Similarly, will a deluge of low-effort automated cultural content raise search costs of finding good art?

Caring about misallocated status makes sense if science is a career & not an avocation -- especially if it is a stage-gated, up-or-out career. Incentive misalignment between scientists & science is a problem

An interesting post on [science as a strong link problem](https://www.experimental-history.com/p/science-is-a-strong-link-problem). 🧵Some immediate impressions:

☞ The Magic of Code I'm writing a new book! Follow along on the journey.

Looking forward to Sam Arbesman’s upcoming book: https://open.substack.com/pub/arbesman/p/the-magic-of-code

How did places like Bell Labs know how to ask the right questions? Alternative Title: Why all applied research organizations should hire a Bell-style systems engineer

Is finding the optimal set of problems for an organization to pursue a systems engineering challenge? https://goodscience.substack.com/p/how-did-places-like-bell-labs-know

Home | Official Sun-Man Website Sun-Man, or Prince Sunni Ali, comes from ancient Kemet -Egypt (before Christ) and is the eldest son in the House of Dynus Kingdom (see the scanned Legend of Sun-Man and the Sun People). He ruled the country with dignity and intelligence.

How did I miss that Sun Man is baaaack? https://www.officialsunman.com/

There Is No A.I. There are ways of controlling the new technology—but first we have to stop mythologizing it.

Jaron Lanier’s idea of “data dignity” sounds like a mashup of value attribution and data provenancing efforts like the Underlay https://www.newyorker.com/science/annals-of-artificial-intelligence/there-is-no-ai

you wouldnt retweet a mushroom