i want this to be how my amazon packages get delivered

I tried to write up some of my thoughts from my most recent trip to Dubai Will probably edit this more as I think more about it open.substack.com/pub/vlpanda/...

Thoughts on Dubai

A collection of observations from my second trip to Dubai

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Tiger Hat, meant to ward against the yin forces of cold and winter

I’m now in Dubai ama about Dubai

I think this painting is really nice

I haven’t spent enough time here, but this week Stripe Press launched our newest book, Maintenance: of Everything, Part One, by the inimitable Stewart Brand: press.stripe.com/maintenance-... About the unglamorous yet civilizationally important work of maintenance and repair.

Going through my clothes before a trip to Dubai, trying to categorize as: - riskily femme - acceptably faggy - safe and straight

Scientific literature is vast and interconnected. Some connections are made explicit through citation networks. Others are latent, implicit connections that can only be revealed through manual review or text mining. There’s a whole field of research dedicated to this - elicit.com/blog/litera...

In absence of an external thing to strive for, yin and yang decouple and seek only their own completion, but produce only destruction in this vain attempt

My office has a pipe that sometimes just belches steam, and I think this should be a thing in every office

Very good rain today

Today, we're releasing two updates to the Elicit Library to keep your papers organized: Collections: Group papers by project or task. Smart De-duplication: Automatically detect and merge versions of the same paper, even if the titles and abstracts don’t exactly match.

Clinical Trials are live on Elicit 🎊 You can now search through the 545,000 trials available on clinicaltrials.gov and summarize them in structured tables or descriptive reports. New trial registrations are instantly available.

Big news for all fans of science "the NIH Public Access Policy requires Author Accepted Manuscripts accepted for publication in a journal, on or after July 1st, to be submitted to PubMed Central upon acceptance for publication" www.nih.gov/about-nih/ni...

Today we introduce Elicit Alerts, a new way to stay informed about relevant research with AI.

“Elicit can extract technically complex variables from an enormous volume of papers with researcher-level accuracy – that’s incredible.” Read how Formation Bio, an AI-native pharmaceutical company, uses Elicit to to power hyper-efficient drug development: blog.elicit.com/case-study-...

If hating Elsevier becomes partisan I am going to kms www.wsj.com/science/how-...

How Scientific Journals Became MAGA’s Latest Target

Evidence of political bias, corporate influence and fraud has made the field vulnerable.

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Twitter is now enforcing Bluesky wednesdays

Reminder that I'll be at manifest.is and you should be to

I feel like any outfit I have that shows my shoulders looks bad Who's working on this

The Universal Tech Tree

The Universal Tech Tree

When we try and pick out any technology in isolation, we find it hitched, in some way, to every innovation that preceded it. (Except for the Oldowan hand axe. We had to start somewhere.)

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This is one of my main recent projects! Please give it a shot and let me know if there are any rough edges ❤️

Elicit@elicit.com · last yr.

Today, we’re announcing a new browser extension to automatically add far more full-text papers to your Systematic Reviews. With this extension, you can spend less time downloading full-text PDFs from publisher websites to extract in Elicit – we’ll get the papers for you.

RL harness for AWS debugging Who is working on this

I think this painting is really nice

I think the Homer Simpson “I sleep in a bed with my wife” is a core piece of conservative commentary

If someone wants to be my counterparty, I’ll bet $500 this isn’t true

nixCraft@cyberciti.biz · last yr.

It's 2030. There is a massive demand for human senior developers to fix garbage made by Vibe coders. 🙃

Had nice new perfume coming that I wanted to try on this minivacation but I accidentally shipped it to my old apartment

My most reactionary opinion is that I think maybe self actualization was a mistake

In celebration of this post I’m going to be trying out a boat this weekend

The Works in Progress Newsletter@worksinprogress.blogsky.venki.dev · last yr.

How ships escaped the great stagnation