Welcome to Parashift Recommends #27! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). Endgame Consider the average “big block chain” — very high block frequency, very high block size, many thousands of transactions per second, but…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #26! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). These Flatworms Can Regrow A Body From A Fragment. How Do They Do It And Could We? Hall and researchers around the world are hard at work trying to understand how most of a group of flatworms called planarians…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #25! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). Roswell Revisited Roswell was founded in 2014, back in 2018 they were reported to have raised $6M. Cruchbase now lists them as having raised…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #24! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). When big tech buys small tech ‘Big tech’ buys hundreds of startups, but what are they, what does that mean for competition, and how does this fit into…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #23! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). The Search for Intelligent Life Heads Underwater “I don’t know much about whales. I have never seen a whale in my life,” Michael Bronstein says. The Israeli computer scientist…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #22! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). Chris Dixon and Naval Ravikant — The Wonders of Web3, How to Pick the Right Hill to Climb, Finding the Right Amount of Crypto Regulation, Friends with Benefits, and the Untapped Potential of NFTs Chris Dixon (@cdixon) is a general partner at Andreessen Horowitz, where for the past six years he has been an active seed…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #21! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). The Origin of the Elements Discover the Periodic Table Color-Coded by the Origin of the Elements in the Solar System by Jennifer Johnson. Origin of the elements www.astronomy.ohio-state.edu Boeing 747: A History: Delivering the Dream

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #20! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). How Google plans to improve web searches with multimodal AI During a livestreamed event today, Google detailed the ways it’s using AI techniques — specifically a machine learning algorithm called multitask unified…

Welcome to Parashift Recommends #19! Parashift’s weekly roundup of what the team read and thought about during the week (want to receive this by email? Sign up here). Stanford researchers evolve embodied AI agents A team of researchers at Stanford wondered: Does embodiment matter for the evolution of intelligence? And if so, how might computer scientists…