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Climate journalist; founded HEATED in 2019 after reporting on climate at The New Republic and ThinkProgress.

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  "Carbon intensity" metrics let oil companies claim climate progress even as their total emissions rise from increased production.

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  "Carbon intensity" is a greenwashing term: It measures pollution per barrel, allowing oil companies to claim climate progress even as rising production drives up total overall emissions.

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Founder of Trilogy Software and principal of Alpha School, the private school network built around two hours a day of AI-delivered mastery learning.

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  AI is education's microscope: the first instrument that gives learning science a closed measurement loop at the level of one child.

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  AI because it's on a onetoone basis is giving us a data loop that nobody in learning science no one in education has ever had and we have it. It's a closed loop and that magical data loop is what's allowing us to get the five to 10 times improvements in education because it's our microscope.

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Dutch bootstrapper who builds and runs their internet startups alone — Nomads.com, Remote OK, Hoodmaps, Photo AI and Interior AI — and has written about it at levels.io since 2013. Posts as @levelsio.

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  France and Germany will ban Tesla's full self-driving to protect their own car industry.

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  The French and Germans will ban Tesla FSD to protect their car industry that's being decimated by Chinese EVs and Tesla Allowing Tesla full self driving would make it so popular that it'd probably the end of their car industry Because no French or German car has self driving like Tesla, many customers would probably flock to Tesla

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Chief Product and Technology Officer at Netflix, previously VP of Science at Lyft and an economist at Analysis Group.

From one piece Why Netflix is betting on systems thinkers—not specialists—in the AI era | Elizabeth Stone (CPTO) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Candidates should be allowed to use AI tools in a coding interview, because that is what the work now requires.

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  And even for things like coding interviews, allowing candidates, of course, to use AI tools because that's going to be part of what the work requires now.

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  Talent density is the non-negotiable first ingredient — without it you cannot trust decisions made at every level or let people take risks.

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  Well, the talent density is the non-negotiable. Like you have to start with that. If you don't have that, you can't get to a place where you have confidence in decision-making at all levels of the organization, allowing people to take risks and innovate quickly.

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Housing and development writer at Strong Towns, arguing that the professional, large-scale housing industry cannot produce widespread affordability no matter how it is deregulated or subsidised.

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  Deregulating enough to make housing broadly affordable would mean legalising housing of the quality nobody is willing to defend.

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  Making housing widely affordable today through the removal of development regulations would require allowing extremely low quality housing.

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Full-stack Laravel developer based in Madison, Wisconsin; maintains open-source Laravel, Livewire and Alpine.js packages and writes at randallwilk.dev.

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  CalDigit TS5 Plus Dock

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  When I purchased this dock it cost me $500, so it was not cheap! It has been well worth the cost though, giving me plenty of ports to use and even allowing me to charge accessories without having my MacBook plugged into it.

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Astrobiologist and theoretical physicist at Arizona State University, working on assembly theory and the physics of life.

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  A large language model is the genetic system for language: it stores the dynamics of a structure that until now lived only across human brains.

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  I think large language models are kind of like the genetic system for language in some sense, where it’s allowing an archiving that’s highly dynamic.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Data-centre electricity consumption will rise substantially even after allowing for every efficiency gain now in sight.

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  But there's also reason to believe that data center power consumption will nevertheless rise substantially.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life

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  Rory Sutherland, Alchemy: The Dark Art and Curious Science of Creating Magic in Brands, Business, and Life: Rory Sutherland is the Vice Chairman of advertising giant Ogilvy; he describes his “attractively vague job title” as allowing him the freedom to create a behavioral science practice within the ad agency. This looks intriguing.

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Linux kernel maintainer; runs the stable kernel releases and maintains the USB and driver core subsystems.

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  AWS

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  Thanks to Amazon's generosity, I've been doing a lot more kernel build testing on their AWS systems, utilizing a 32 processor, 64Gb virtual machine, allowing me to build multiple kernels at the same time all on a RAM disk in minutes.

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