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When neighbors call the police to shut down loud parties....
"But you see police _can’t_ shut it down. This is what politicians intended when — and this important — in 2017 NYC passed a law explicitly preventing police from shutting down parties."
qualitypolicing.com/loud-par…
Threads/twitter adoption from FT. Ridiculously rapid to 50m daily users in a week. Now at 11m daily users, versus 110m twitter.
Headline "Meta’s Twitter rival Threads unravels" is too strong. Many plausible futures: both die, one dies, both live.
ft.com/content/330d8771-7b0e…
the pattern of DNA methylation can be used to estimate the age of mammals to within a year. Mostly decreases with age, but some areas increase. It's called the epigenetic clock. Beware Goodhart's law on this one 😀
nytimes.com/2023/08/10/scien…
links to the two papers discussed in that NYT article
Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues
nature.com/articles/s43587-0…
DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits
science.org/doi/10.1126/scie…
history of making paper airplanes. how this has fed back into airplane designs. Sort of hodge podge, but fun if you had a paper airplane making phase yourself 🙋♂️
bonus!: plan to "launch paper airplanes from the International Space Station (ISS)."
popularmechanics.com/flight/…
Nathan Taylor retweeted
I disagree with Bryan on a number of issues, such as immigration, but I think he is a good man and a model of intellectual virtue. The fact that so many people see this tweet as an indictment, rather than as a manifestation of that virtue, is very sad.
I meant what I said five years ago. In his early 20s, @RichardHanania anonymously said some bad things about me.
I won him over, met him in real life, and he is now my good friend.
And I stand by my friends.
richardhanania.com/p/why-i-u…
Excellent podcast interview from @pgmid of David Glanzman, who makes the case for long term memory being encoded at the molecular level.
Which is why transferring RNA from a trained donor to another animal can induce memories in the recipient. 🤯
braininspired.co/podcast/172…
related paper. broad thesis is short term memory is synaptic. long term memory is molecularly encoded.
biology is messy, so probably a bit of everything.
But this idea is really interesting! It implies ML (synaptic approach) has no long term memory 🧐
sciencedirect.com/science/ar…
Watching Apollo 11 documentary (from 2019) as saw high recommendations
Obviously if it were great I wouldn’t be tempted to goof around on twitter. But it is sort of slowly compelling. No verbal editorial. Just straight footage timeline.
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apol…
Apparently Nixon was on the aircraft carrier when they picked up astronauts after splash down in the pacific.
Nice moment here to wait to quote Kennedy about going to the moon until
The very end right after quick shot of Nixon. And giving a deeper full quote.
fin