Rather than doing monthly links, I'm experimenting with posting them as I find them. The Addiction Economy A project from Society Inside Summary: everything is terrible, just like you thought. I saw this project covered in an issue of The New World: The biggest cause of preventable death the world has ever known– bigger...

Solarpunk; immigration; "there will be no downsides to brexit"; LLM subliminal learning; cancer "grow or go"; biotech snapshot; Animal communications; LLM from scratch Utopia, with solar panels The New World "...solarpunks envisage a photon-powered society emerging, in which not only our energy production but also the...

Book economics; LLMs don’t reason; story in politics; UK energy pricing; kidneys. The economics of writing a book The Bluestocking Selling books via live events and podcasts “now looks as outdated as a pop star going on tour for free and expecting to make money from CD sales. What people are willing to pay for has...

Original SF; bed washing; epigenetic ageing; grief; NHS 10 year plan. Always on, always tired, sometimes rude – how to avoid the ‘triple-peak trap’ of modern work The Conversation I just knew it! “[…] the same bosses who praised weekend digital detoxing also ranked the detoxers as less promotable than colleagues who...

Predicting genome differences; image hosting; experience & relationships beat reason; Alzheimer’s drugs; copyright judge rules in favour of AI Adding images to posts on the Pagecord free plan Pagecord Pagecord is a blogging platform I’m tracking, not yet using. They’ve done the hard work of researching image hosting: ...

Pets and disasters, predicting healthcare needs, origins of copyright; Mrs Dalloway; coffee extraction; cold mice Disaster Preparedness for Pets CattleDog Publishing Suggests keeping a waterproof bag containing: up-to-date set of pet’s medical records and medications, meds for two weeks, microchip info, food and water...

Biology and LLMs; decoding LLM “reasoning”; UK microchips; phasing out of animal testing; giant starfish Revealed: where rare and giant starfish hide from an enigmatic killer Nature This starfish, the  sunflower sea star, “reaches one metre in diameter and has as many as 24 arms”. A disease, possibly related to sea...

Bird nests, hallucinations as a feature, animal cancer and size, booze and cancer risk, dementia communication, alternative to PubMed AI hallucinations are a feature of LLM design, not a bug Nature “Their responses are inherently creative, context-specific and untrustworthy. […] LLMs can help us to think but they cannot...

Plant memory, AI designed plants, AI assisted medicine and scribes, medtech procurement, Rust standard traits The Robot Doctor Will See You Now NY Times “[…] half the scans were assessed by two radiologists, as is usual. The other half were evaluated by A.I.-supported screening first, followed by additional review by...

GPUs, continuity of care; prebunking; LLM roundup; The Traitors What Every Developer Should Know About GPU Computing I’ve never had to do any CUDA programming, but I’m interested in how it all hangs together. This post helps demystify it all. The Traitors – a cultural, and psychological, phenomenon The British...

Pattern games for dogs, probability doesn’t exist, more genes, AI helps better teams, markdown conversion, gene activity from slide images Pattern Games – A New Way to Help Change Behavior “The main goal of Pattern Games is to help your dog process their environment and give them a set of behaviors to follow”. Sounds...

Animals counting, firework alternatives, ageing, not tripping; NHS review; fireworks These crows may count in a way similar to human toddlers “The researchers trained the birds to produce one to four calls (a “kraak”) when they saw an Arabic numeral on a screen or heard short noises.” And they can do it, taking longer...

With the demise of Omnivore I’m left without a home for links and newsletters. I’m experimenting with a few tools, which includes this: a periodic list of links I’ve read this month, and may want to be able to find again. GLP-1, dementia and infection, web components, LLMs don’t reason, CRDTs, HPV, message streams,...