Hey folks! This week’s blog post features intriguing reads like the evolution of headlines, memory’s power, and Olympic athletes’ secret performance booster—baking soda! Dive into Tycho’s Burning Man set, innovative subwoofer projects, RLHF’s business impact, and top .NET creators. Plus, discover Google Analytics for Slack, blog monetization tips, and more on AI, work output, and creativity. Happy reading!
- How Does the Language of Headlines Work? The Answer May Surprise You.: How headlines have changed as media has evolved — and how they haven’t.
- Why We Remember: Unlocking Memory’s Power to Hold on to What Matters by Charan Ranganath: Memory is far more than a record of the past. In this groundbreaking tour of the mind and brain, …
- Tycho’s Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2024: If you’re in the market for a chill work mix, Tycho has uploaded his annual Burning Man Sunrise Set for 2024 to Soundcloud
- Why Top Olympic Athletes Use Baking Soda to Boost Performance: New research confirms what many elite athletes already knew—the performance boosting effects of baking soda.
- Building A Subwoofer Box Out Of Decking Material: When you go to build a subwoofer box, wood is the most common choice. When it came to his project, though, [Startup Chuck] decided to go a different route entirely. Rather than the usual plywood or…
- Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF): Explore how Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback (RLHF) is reshaping business operations, decision-making, and customer interactions.
- The Surprising Effects of Poor Planning in Project Management: When teams consistently create poor plans, they rack up a surprising cost that goes beyond the realities of a missed deadline or skipped feature.
- The new wave: Top 10 emerging .NET content creators: Whether you’re diving into .NET best practices, learning about architectural principles, or trying to… Tagged with learning, dotnet, developer, community.
- Use an agile approach for marketing processes – Think with Google: Google’s Official Digital Marketing Publication. Discover what agile marketing is and how shifting your approach can boost your marketing process.
- Ars Technica system guide: Falling prices are more exciting than new parts: Falling prices mean you can get more for your money than you could last year.
- How To Create A Weekly Google Analytics Report That Posts To Slack: Google Analytics is often on a “need to know” basis, but why not flip the script? Paul Scanlon shares how he wrote a GitHub Action that queries Google Analytics to automatically generate and post a top ten page views report to Slack, making it incredibly easy to track page performance and share insights with your team.
- How to Monetize a Blog: A guide on turning your diary into dollars.
- Novel Architecture Makes Neural Networks More Understandable: By tapping into a decades-old mathematical principle, researchers are hoping that Kolmogorov-Arnold networks will facilitate scientific discovery.
- Notes on OpenAI’s new o1 chain-of-thought models: OpenAI released two major new preview models today: o1-preview and o1-mini (that mini one is not a preview)—previously rumored as having the codename “strawberry”. There’s a lot to understand about …
- Scaling: The State of Play in AI: A brief intergenerational pause…
- Creativity and the Brain: Research studies indicate specific brain networks involved in creative thinking.
- What The Jetsons got right, and very wrong, about the future of work: The 1960s cartoon The Jetsons got three things about the future very wrong: the place of women in the workforce, how much we will work, and where we work.
- 5 Scientifically Proven Ways to Enhance Your Work Output: How do you increase and enhance your work output in a sustainable way that avoids burnout? Here are 5 tips.
- What Is Psychometric Testing: ? In this article, we explore the origins of psychometrics and see how you can apply them in the modern workplace.
- OpenAI’s new models “instrumentally faked alignment”: The o1 safety card reveals a range of concerning capabilities, including scheming, reward hacking, and biological weapon creation.