Uncertainty 1.0
Uncertainty 1.0
Hello to all my Instagram friends who joined the newsfeed this week. You are just in time to read the first release of my new book, “Uncertainty: The Computer Science of Everything”.
This book is all about the future. Of everything. I discuss artificial intelligence, aliens, sex robots, governments, philosophy, genetics, decentralized finance, drugs, quantum mechanics, and religion. There’s something to offend everyone. Save this PDF to your documents folder and then you can read it by searching for “Uncertainty” at any time, from any of your devices.
What I’m Reading
👨🏫 The College Backlash Is Going Too Far Here’s a good article in The Atlantic that discusses some of the challenges with getting young people to higher education. I think it’s criminal that governments haven’t opened their public colleges up to streaming education. Aren’t public universities meant to elevate the education of their constituents?
🤡 MrBeast and BBC stars used in deepfake scam videos Deep fake endorsements are coming soon to a recommendation algorithm near you. This post got 28 million views on Twitter. Deepfake technology is only going to get cheaper and easier to make.
🤡 Deepfake celebrities begin shilling products on social media, causing alarm
🏛️ How are ancient Roman and Mayan buildings still standing? Scientists are unlocking their secrets The ancient Romans keep getting smarter with age. Their concrete was self healing.
🦾 FedEx’s New Robot Loads Delivery Trucks Like It’s Playing 3D Tetris Watch the video in the article. I’m glad we have robots solving that problem for the zillions of packages per day that get shipped all around the world. Amazon is basically the internet for atoms :)
😱 16 Essential ‘Black Mirror’ Episodes for Every Type of Mood If you want to know where technology is going, you need to watch some black mirrors. Make sure you watch them during the day with the lights on. They aren’t always scary, but they are always bone-chilling.
🤑 Why Big Tech’s bet on AI assistants is so risky There will never be a human and ai civil war like in the movie, “The Matrix” because we will slowly crawl into those little pods on our own. First ai assistants, then ai will make us individual Hollywood movies while we drift into Total Entertainment Forever.
🦠 Cell biologists identify new organelle present in mammalian cells made of rings of DNA What’s cool about this if you study DNA is that its the first time we’ve seen biological “computing” outside the nucleus of the cell. The nucleus has a kick-ass firewall to prevent anything from tampering with the code, but this new organelle shifts some of the computing “out to the edge” of the cell.
🫀 Turning Back the Clock: Surgical Procedure Slows Cellular Aging and Extends Lifespan by up to 10% Scientists be crazy. Why anyone would think to do this is both astounding and probably really important for science.
🌞 MIT makes a super thin solar cell that can turn any surface into a power plant This is how thin they can make solar cells now. Artificial solar cells are basically as thin as a leaf and just as flexible. The artificial solar cells are only 20% efficient. The biological solar cells (leaves) are not only 100% efficient, they use quantum biology.
✈️ Where 2023 ACL Festival attendees are coming from, according to AirBNB ACL brings a ton of money into Austin each year. What’s so surprising is how many additional dollars those young people spend each day they are in town. If you haven’t been to Austin, its full of beautiful, young, cool people who never seem to be at work.
What I’m watching
🧬 The lady that invented CRISPR (to edit DNA in living plants and animals) is back with her latest invention. Now scientists can edit the DNA of whole microbiomes. Microbiomes are all the stuff inside you and outside you that keep on living after you die. 7 minutes.
🕺Freestyle dance culture looks like they are having a good time. Here’s a highlight reel from some of the best. 23 minutes.
📦 Here’s how ⅓ of the world’s cardboard gets made. 12 minutes.
🦾 First humanoid robot factory is complete. They even have robots working in the factory. 1 minute.
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