2024 Week 44 - Weekly Notes

Practice = Purpose + Frictionless Systems + Consistency — Source Unknown

Last week felt weird. Like a strange Halloween that was misplaced. I was heavily distracted by election news this week and have been putting off the previous week’s notes.

BBC - Dublin: Hundreds gather in streets for hoax Halloween parade

I’m continuing the week notes format like I did last week with topic-based notes. It seems to be helping me get acclimated to stop organizing everything.

Expect more election news next week as I get caught up.

Pendulum Therapeutics - Beyond Ozempic

Kevin Rose interviews Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - Beyond Ozempic: The Probiotic That Finally Stops Chocolate (& Food) Binges. Join Our Science Trial.

Also, Peter Attia’s interview with Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - Gut health & the microbiome: improving and maintaining the microbiome, probiotics, prebiotics, innovative treatments, and more

Unfortunately, the promotion has ended. A normal 3 month supply will cost $185 - Store Page

Mixing ML with Alternative Meats

Frontiers publication - Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for cultured meat

We address four major areas of cultured meat research and development: establishing cell lines, cell culture media design, microscopy and image analysis, and bioprocessing and food processing optimization.

Fabrics

I’ve been reading The Golden Thread, and that reminds me I should listen to Articles Of Interest.

Abstraction-less

Adam Argyle - Headless, boneless, skinless & lifeless UI

Sunbelt meets TSMC

Bloomberg - TSMC’s (2330 TT) Arizona Chip Production Yields Surpass Taiwan’s

Embeddings

Kayce Basques - Embeddings are underrated

Process Studies Takeaways

Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) - Notes From The Progress Studies Conference

• Progress is good, but progress slowed around 1970. Nobody knows why, but theories include shifting social attitudes, over-regulation, or exhausting the potential in a few big inventions like electricity and mass production. This slowing was a great historical tragedy.

A good tool is worth its price

Dylan Fitzgerald - Good tools are worth paying for

Election Chaos

I’m writing this post-election, so some of this is kind of outdated now.

• Did My Friends Vote - the website is now down until counties finish counting. This was good to double check my voting record.
• Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating - No wonder the pre-election chaos was so noisy. This happened close to where some friends live

Impact Printing

Ars Technica - 3D printing buildings without cement

Racial Covenants

• Stanford RegLab, Princeton, and the County of Santa Clara Collaborate to Use AI to Identify and Map Racial Covenants From Over 5 Million Deed Records
• AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County

Obits

• Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s Cinematic Collaborator, Dies at 86
  • The Criterion Collection - Current - Paul Morrissey, Before and After Warhol
• Teri Garr, Comic Actress in ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79
  • Teri Garr’s Life in Pictures