Best of Twitter - Week of September 7, 2020
Extraordinary week on twitter. Have fun!
This is huge. The first cloning for conservation.
It's a male Przewalski's horse ("shuh-VAL-ski") from 40 years ago, now revived to help enrich the genomes of the whole wild population.
Thanks to San Diego Zoo, ViaGen, and Revive & Restore
Ben J. Novak @BenJNovak1
It’s almost 3 p.m. Time to turn off major appliances, set the thermostat to 78 degrees (or use a fan instead), turn off excess lights and unplug any appliances you’re not using.
We need every Californian to help conserve energy. Please do your part. #FlexAlert
@ModeledBehavior Personal finance guy I knew said he could stop consumer bankruptcy, aside from the luck of health or job reversals, by persuading people not to buy new cars and to pay more attention to their mortgage terms. So, yeah, buy used cars
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@timmullaney @ModeledBehavior I've filed a few bankruptcies, although I ultimately decided that area of law was not for me. The people who were not in it for medical reasons had, as you say, all bought vehicles at very high interest rates.
Deven Jones walked into the Rolling Hills Honda dealership in St. Joseph, Mo., in early 2017 after a salesman emailed him and said he might be able to buy a new car for less than $400 a month.
Mr. Jones, now 22 years old, walked out with a gray Accord sedan with heated leather seats. He also took home a 72-month car loan that cost him and his then-girlfriend more than $500 a month. When they split last year and the monthly payment fell solely to him, it suddenly took up more than a quarter of his take-home pay.
this mind-reading stuff is getting pretty good
Self-Supervised Natural Image Reconstruction and Rich Semantic Classification from Brain Activity
biorxiv.org/content/10.110…
Can't find an example of major innovation where experts who knew too much made change happen! Amazon vs Walmart, Tesla vs GM, Spacex vs. Lockheed, Twitter/Youtube/FB vs media, Genentech vs pharma, AirBnB vs hotels, Uber vs. taxis,... Experts can explain "why not" instead of "why"
Paul Graham @paulg
@vkhosla Yes. Steve Jobs forbade his early iPhone team from hiring anyone who had worked on phones before. Nokia’s execs told me, on day of launch, that Cupertino didn’t know how to build phones. Hah!
If San Francisco did not exist and you tried to convince people that 25 year olds without degrees can run billion dollar companies, everyone would think you're ridiculous.
Also, you literally cannot become a professor or get proper research funding if you do not have a PhD.
if you want to create or to help to create San Francisco for life sciences, please email me: alexey@guzey.com
a surprising finding from my current project: there are a whole lot of moms who, pre-pandemic, used grocery shopping as their primary source of "alone time" during the week
Video of Swedish House Mafia making one of the most successful songs of the last decade reminds me of how Apple designs —
A torrent of ideas plus very fast editorial decisions.
Over the past year I have skimmed through more than 2500 social science papers. I wrote a giant post about everything that's wrong with them and how to fix the process that generates them: fantasticanachronism.com/2020/09/11/wha…
Some highlights below.
Short pitches are an underrated art form. In this one, the authors shows that one of Nikola’s trucks was not filmed driving, but rolling down a hill—they demonstrated with their own car. hindenburgresearch.com/nikola/
(Note: I finally got around to shorting $NKLA. Bouncy ride.)
This is genius.
NASA will pay some company or companies to go to the moon and bring back soil.
Not because the soil is important.
Because they are creating a market in the capability to go to the moon.
“Create a market for the thing you want to do” is a great strategy. Bravo.
Jim Bridenstine @JimBridenstine