Links of Interest - May 2024

Congratulations to Ipsos and Impact for Best Use of Dynamic Commissioning! Their first-of-its-kind dynamic payout system won the gold award?-https://www.dhirubhai.net/posts/patrickchancelier_next-up-is-another-new-category-for-2024-ugcPost-7197180219256885249-6Cw8

The Electric Curtain: Tariffs and the Roadblock to China’s EV Dominance.? Just how good are these cars we’re banning? -https://open.substack.com/pub/chinatalk/p/the-electric-curtain-tariffs-and?r=nalc8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email

Award winners of the 5th edition of the French Tech Next 40 120 -https://presse.economie.gouv.fr/award-winners-of-the-5th-edition-of-the-french-tech-next-40-120/

To the brain, reading computer code is not the same as reading language -https://news.mit.edu/2020/brain-reading-computer-code-1215

How the Guinness Brewery Invented the Most Important Statistical Method in Science -?https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-the-guinness-brewery-invented-the-most-important-statistical-method-in/

It’s called the “Schreiberling” -?https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUSRyAha37w

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History -https://maggieappleton.com/generative-forgery

Native Girl Scout Cookie Collab is Deliciously Innovative -https://www.dhirubhai.net/pulse/native-girl-scout-cookie-collab-deliciously-innovative-david-banks-zesif/

All-in Podcast, Ohalo CEO / Boosted Breeding -??https://youtu.be/vDr1983LIuo?si=XzC1umiAE41PagmX&t=2417

From Humair: RCA of this incident published by Google … It appears Google Cloud VMware Engine (GCVE) operators inadvertently misconfigured customer's Private Cloud deployment by leaving a parameter blank, resulting in the Private Cloud being set to a fixed term of 1 year with automatic deletion at the end of the term, without the customer's knowledge - https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/infrastructure/details-of-google-cloud-gcve-incident

Dynata news:? “The transaction will result in a voluntary write down of almost 40% of its total debt from approximately $1.3 billion to $780 million in exchange for the first and second lien holders to own 100% of the equity in the Company.” -?https://www.morningstar.com/news/pr-newswire/20240522sf20505/dynata-reaches-fully-consensual-agreement-with-all-stakeholders-to-recapitalize-and-significantly-deleverage-balance-sheet

And

https://www.greenwichtime.com/business/article/ct-shelton-dynata-survey-bankruptcy-ssi-19481466.php

From Ben: Moving past gen AI’s honeymoon phase. ?Seven hard truths for CIOs to get from pilot to scale -?https://www.mckinsey.com/capabilities/mckinsey-digital/our-insights/moving-past-gen-ais-honeymoon-phase-seven-hard-truths-for-cios-to-get-from-pilot-to-scale

From Ben:? It’s not only AI that hallucinates -https://www.ft.com/content/741f905c-8aa7-4f72-a7f5-7afc19366e43

UI Density || Matthew Str?m -?https://matthewstrom.com/writing/ui-density/

Reversing Choplifter -?https://blondihacks.com/reversing-choplifter/

California exceeds 100% of energy demand with renewables over a record 30 days -?https://electrek.co/2024/05/21/renewables-met-100-percent-california-energy-demand-30-days/

The Engineering of Duct Tape -?https://youtu.be/E-F2QQuZZGk?si=roVV-TlaVvzHmnLV

Sal Khan is pioneering innovation in education…again -https://www.gatesnotes.com/Brave-New-Words

Thinking out loud about 2nd-gen Email -https://gabrielsieben.tech/2024/05/17/thinking-out-loud-2nd-gen-email/

Pacific squid flashes its huge attack 'headlights' -https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-69016405

SWISS' Entire Boeing 777 Fleet Now Has Shark Skin Technology -https://simpleflying.com/swiss-entire-boeing-777-fleet-aeroshark/

Simulation of the Prague Astronomical Clock for any location on Earth -https://github.com/kshetline/prague-clock

Calendar types in Watches -?https://arslan.io/2024/04/29/calendar-types-in-watches/

Z-Library – the world’s largest e-book library -?https://singlelogin.re/

Found: the dial in the brain that controls the immune system -https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-01259-2

“What I hadn't realised is that in 2025 we hit the point where Meta - a single company - generates more ad revenue than THE WHOLE of the global linear TV industry” -https://www.dhirubhai.net/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7191753868890750978?

Every map of China is wrong. And this is intentional -https://medium.com/@anastasia.bizyayeva/every-map-of-china-is-wrong-bc2bce145db2

Wounded orangutan seen using plant as medicine -https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68942123

Squawk Pod: Charlie Munger: A Life of Wit and Wisdom -https://youtu.be/uObtZaCFFYg?si=9Z0acIffO4jZjWb3

The Good Enough Trap - How Technology Can Get Us Stuck In Place -https://www.ian-leslie.com/p/the-good-enough-trap?triedRedirect=true

?“‘That was an epiphany for me,’ Rau said. ‘We always talk about training the machines, but another art is where the machines produce ideas based on a data set that humans wouldn’t have been able to see or visualize. This spurs even more creativity by opening pathways in medicine development that humans may not have otherwise explored.’” -?https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/05/within-a-few-years-generative-ai-will-design-new-drugs-on-its-own.html

POLISH EMBASSY INTERVIEWS 1ST PERSON TO CRACK ENIGMA: MARIAN REJEWSKI -?https://www.flyingpenguin.com/?p=56989

Bad bosses are evolving not disappearing -https://www.ft.com/content/4ad6811c-5487-47b7-90a0-9bc2788570a5

The best way to have complex discussions -?https://cq2.co/blog/the-best-way-to-have-complex-discussions

Novel attack against virtually all VPN apps neuters their entire purpose -https://arstechnica.com/security/2024/05/novel-attack-against-virtually-all-vpn-apps-neuters-their-entire-purpose/

ScrapeGraphAI is a cutting-edge Python library designed for web scraping, which integrates large language models (LLMs) to automate and simplify the data extraction process.?-?https://scrapegraph-doc.onrender.com/

The Grateful Dead’s Wall of Sound -?https://audioacademy.in/the-grateful-deads-wall-of-sound/

Can Turning Office Towers Into Apartments Save Downtowns? -https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2024/05/06/can-turning-office-towers-into-apartments-save-downtowns

An Interview With Jack Dorsey -?https://www.piratewires.com/p/interview-with-jack-dorsey-mike-solana

How Viking-Age Hunters Took Down the Biggest Animal on Earth -https://hakaimagazine.com/features/how-viking-age-hunters-took-down-the-biggest-animal-on-earth/

Deaf girl is cured in world first gene therapy trial -https://www.independent.co.uk/news/health/deaf-cure-girl-gene-therapy-b2541735.html

Nearly 50% of people are considering leaving their jobs in 2024 -https://www.cnbc.com/2024/05/08/nearly-50percent-of-people-are-considering-leaving-their-jobs-in-2024.html

How Dubai became a haven for criminals from around the world -https://youtu.be/i823AhR8zKQ?si=pNLKYAwgttDzWLX1

“I really feel this should be the next gold standard for all of our doctors. It decreases the cognitive load you feel at the end of the day,”? -https://globalnews.ca/news/10463535/ontario-family-doctor-artificial-intelligence-notes/

A toxic substance found in Beethoven’s hair may solve an enduring mystery -https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/06/health/beethoven-deaf-lead-hair.html

Jimmy Kimmel?rarely holds back during his annual monologue to?Disney?advertisers - https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/jimmy-kimmel-disney-upfronts-jokes-1235899131/

A ‘plague’ comes before the fall: lessons from Roman history -https://thebulletin.org/2024/05/a-plague-comes-before-the-fall-lessons-from-roman-history/

Brain biopsies on 'vulnerable' patients at Mount Sinai set off alarm bells at FDA -https://www.statnews.com/2024/05/01/brain-biopsies-mount-sinai-fda-review/

and

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1785740414420422819.html#google_vignette

Beyond public key encryption -https://blog.cryptographyengineering.com/2017/07/02/beyond-public-key-encryption/

The spy who flunked it: Kurt G?del’s forgotten part in the atom-bomb story -https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00644-1

Toon3D: Seeing Cartoons from a New Perspective -?https://toon3d.studio/

Sakuga-42M Dataset: Scaling Up Cartoon Research -https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07425

A Trial HIV Vaccine Triggered Elusive and Essential Antibodies in Humans -https://corporate.dukehealth.org/news/trial-hiv-vaccine-triggered-elusive-and-essential-antibodies-humans

Mechanical Movements of the Cold War: How the Soviets Revolutionized Wristwatches -?https://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/how-the-soviets-revolutionized-wristwatches/

BIMI and DMARC Can't Save You: The Overlooked DKIM Exploit -https://www.zone.eu/blog/2024/05/17/bimi-and-dmarc-cant-save-you/

When Kodak Went to War with Polaroid -https://steveblank.com/2024/05/16/secret-history-when-kodak-went-to-war-with-polaroid/

Solid State Batteries are Closer Than You Think -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG2_5GMWf1E

Daylight Computer | The Fast 60fps E-paper and Blue-Light Free Tablet -https://daylightcomputer.com/product

The Space Quest II Master Disk Blunder -https://lanceewing.github.io/blog/sierra/agi/sq2/2024/05/22/do-you-own-this-space-quest-2-disk.html

Financial Statement Analysis with Large Language Models -https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4835311

Why Medieval Bologna Was Full of Tall Towers, and What Happened to Them -https://www.openculture.com/2024/05/why-medieval-bologna-was-full-of-tall-towers-and-what-happened-to-them.html

VBScript deprecation: Timelines and next steps -https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/windows-it-pro-blog/vbscript-deprecation-timelines-and-next-steps/ba-p/4148301

API Governance Delivers Quality -?https://apichangelog.substack.com/p/api-governance-delivers-quality

A vintage 1903 espresso machine at a Village café -https://ephemeralnewyork.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/a-vintage-1903-espresso-machine-at-a-village-cafe/

This is what the damaged Svalbard cable looked like when it came up from the depths -?https://www.nrk.no/tromsogfinnmark/this-is-what-the-damaged-svalbard-cable-looked-like-when-it-came-up-from-the-depths-1.16895904

Controlling the Taylor Swift Eras Tour wristbands with Flipper Zero -https://blog.jgc.org/2024/05/controlling-taylor-swift-eras-tour.html

Egypt is building a $1-billion mega-museum. Will it bring Egyptology home? -https://www.nature.com/immersive/d41586-024-01467-w/index.html

All-In Podcast, Micro plastics in foods and other places -https://youtu.be/c9HEjdjyVn4?si=d8pQ7c8fJd2lQJ5y&t=3783

Why Thorium will be a Game-Changer in Energy -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMv5c32XXoE

Can we automate this (with software)?, Can we deprecate this (because it's having little to no impact)?, Can we delegate this (to someone at a lower salary)? -https://calacanis.substack.com/p/startup-productivity-in-the-age-of

How Researchers Cracked an 11-Year-Old Password to a $3 Million Crypto Wallet | WIRED – https://www.wired.com/story/roboform-password-3-million-dollar-crypto-wallet/

Llama 3-V: Matching GPT4-V with a 100x smaller model and 500 dollars - https://aksh-garg.medium.com/llama-3v-building-an-open-source-gpt-4v-competitor-in-under-500-7dd8f1f6c9ee

AI headphones let wearer listen to a single person in a crowd, by looking at them just once - https://www.washington.edu/news/2024/05/23/ai-headphones-noise-cancelling-target-speech-hearing/

AI firms mustn’t govern themselves, say ex-members of OpenAI’s board - https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2024/05/26/ai-firms-mustnt-govern-themselves-say-ex-members-of-openais-board

Google, the Apple of AI? - https://stratechery.com/2024/ai-integration-and-modularization/