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In online discourse, a lot of people recommend job hopping frequently specifically to learn a lot and avoid stagnation, but I think that’s generally the opposite of correct.

ongoing scary stuff. Read the same day as “the gut makes your serotonin”

Now that years have passed since I stopped, I don’t mind telling people that I trained to be an opera singer. I used to be ashamed of it, though I’m not sure what exactly felt shameful – the admission that I’d once wanted to be part of that world or the fact that I’d failed.

At the highest level, DALL-E 2’s works very simply:

This was followed by three statements that made no sense and didn’t sound simple at all.

The approach of “explain everything with different shaped boxes” is sometimes helpful, sometimes not.

Overall it did help me understand some though. The wow one for me was the GLIDE model - generate a new image that keeps salient features from the original image.

Hacking coral sex to accelerate reef regrowth

Some interesting discussion in hn comments on sabbaticals and breaks from work.

When your commonplace book is a public database. The strategy of doing all your writing in public and as you learn about things, building up a knowledge database over time.

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Saved for if Google kills Scholar

Incredible post, featuring detailed interactive and color-coded animations of the inner workings of mechanical watches

The Brontë family were a LOT, so buckle up

Scan your LAN for loose samba shares

really handy, a specific but detailed walkthrough of someone’s master workflow.

unsurprisingly, issues facing twitter:
a) have been considered by people who spend years working on it
b) are more complicated to solve than a pithy phrase would have you believe

Maybe this is what Flavortown is all about.

Why, I wondered, does flavor have such a hold over us? And why do so many scientists carry on as though nutrition starts from the neck down, that what truly matters in food is carbs, protein and fat, and flavor is just some meaningless and frivolous indulgence?

Our flavor sensing equipment—the nose and mouth—takes up more DNA than any other bodily system. Why is there so much DNA devoted to a sense we tend to think of as superfluous?

Filed under “moderately concerning”. Still waiting on those variant-based boosters.

A study funded by #Pfizer shows that, within months, third shot of their vaccine now only cuts your risk of being hospitalized for Covid-19 by about half.

https://thelancet.com/journals/lanres/article/PIIS2213-2600(22)00101-1/fulltext

Cool comparison - make the same song on the two devices to compare workflow and sound

pitfalls with early retirement; planning for 7 decades of financial independence is a bigger challenge than some claim

Bottom line up front - begin message with the key information.

found via hn comment in reply to a longer and less interesting thing on writing

retrofitting buildings to improve energy and thermal efficancy faster

years worth of book recommendations in an hour

Or apple podcast link.

the highlights of Brand Twitter history, 2009-2019

Interesting take on initial novelty (establishing a genre or crossover) followed by then staying in that same style

Content and search result predictions with a rise of machine-generated content combined with autmatic filters to parse/display that content.

Reading this made me feel nostalgic for days of earlier android versions

I like the idea of small containerised binaries more than this specific use for it.

Interesting prediction, on possibly impacts of bot-bot communication.

In this new world, skill at writing will count for much less, and personal charisma for much more. This is not necessarily a positive development. It will be harder to use writing as a measure of broader skill or intelligence.

later mentioned on fs