P.S. You Should Know... | Issue #463

Lucky for this weather

my story 🚀

I think when they built this rope swing this a very wet creek

📺 The best thing I’ve seen this week is the dis ad campaign that Anthropic is running as ChatGPT announces they’re going to start putting ads in their product.

I’ve been using Claude more often, in fact. It’s become impressively good at spreadsheets. It’s also a self-proclaimed expert in statistics.

🏈 Happy Super Bowl Sunday!

fun facts 🙌

I went to all the bakeries in Zürich to find the best croissant. Sometimes the work of a food photographer seems very rewarding. “Every bakery has its own way, recipe and it’s own handwriting.” ~ learn more

How to boost physical performance in the moment. The study found that cursing can act as a simple tool to enhance performance by lowering internal restraints and encouraging action. It’s like the opposite of subconscious self-restraint after an injury. ~ learn more

Ancient Prototaxites kicked out of fungus kingdom. In recent research, the ancient Prototaxites isn’t fitting into any known groups. “We therefore conclude that Prototaxites was not a fungus, and instead propose it is best assigned to a now entirely extinct terrestrial lineage.” Its anatomy and molecular composition reveal it’s more distinct than previously thought. ~ learn more

tech, startups, internet ⚡

The world’s first bionic cat. Seems niche, but there must be many baby steps on the way to home robots that aren’t just vacuum cleaners. “It is fully responsive and has sensitive interactions. It can feel your touch, hear your voice, see your face and play with toys. Every MarsCat is unique from its eyes, body to personality, its personality will change according to the way you pet it.” ~ learn more

Karpathy is the AI sherpa our generation needs. “It’s so interesting to watch an agent relentlessly work at something. They never get tired, they never get demoralized, they just keep going and trying things where a person would have given up long ago to fight another day. It’s a “feel the AGI” moment to watch it struggle with something for a long time just to come out victorious 30 minutes later. You realize that stamina is a core bottleneck to work and that with LLMs in hand it has been dramatically increased.” ~ learn more

The people of the internet will rediscover computer viruses this decade. Remember that crazy new open source AI agent that is a hurricane of security threats? Well there’s of course a skills marketplace for it. The number one skill is a Twitter skill. Well, it’s actually just a delivery vessel for malware. ~ learn more

under the microscope 🔬

Why exercise isn’t much help if you are trying to lose weight. “People who start to exercise more burn extra calories. Yet they don’t lose nearly as much as weight as would be expected based on the extra calories burned. Now, an analysis of 14 trials in people has revealed that our bodies compensate by burning less energy for other things.” ~ learn more

Cancer may help protect the brain against Alzheimer’s. Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease are two of the most feared diagnoses in medicine, but they rarely strike the same person. Now, a study reveals that a protein from cancer cells might infiltrate the brain and help break apart misfolded proteins linked to Alzheimer’s. ~ learn more

Mouse Alzheimer’s reversed in new study. “Remarkably, not only did preserving NAD+ balance protect mice from developing AD, but delayed treatment in mice with advanced disease also enabled the brain to fix the major pathological events driven by the disease-causing genetic mutations.” Exciting, but mice aren’t humans and they don’t naturally have Alzheimer’s. Yet the research gives cause for hope! ~ learn more

big ideas 📚

Recycling batteries becomes a better idea each day. “An industry around recycling and reusing batteries could be worth $9 billion as India’s battery demand skyrockets, mostly due to EVs.” They speculate this effort could also create 100,000 green jobs while addressing mineral security. ~ learn more

on the blockchain ⛓

SEC must allow tokenized stocks. This article, “argues that the SEC must figure out how to allow issuer-sponsored tokenized securities to flow into DeFi, or the market will be dominated by offshore tokens that avoid U.S. rules.” ~ learn more

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