Michael Dawes

on the atlas · 65

• The Light Phone4 savers
• First Principles: The Building Blocks of True Knowledge - Farnam Street14 savers
• Heuristics on the high seas: Mathematical optimization for cargo ships1 savers
• YKL2 savers
• Streamlit • The fastest way to build and share data apps6 savers
• How to be an amateur polyglot — LessWrong2 savers
• Securing Canada’s AI advantage | Prime Minister of Canada4 savers
• Home - Sequoia Capital US/Europe3 savers
• Proof You Can Do Hard Things - Nat Eliason's Newsletter8 savers
• Claims of Room Temperature and Ambient Pressure Superconductor | Page 11 | SpaceBattles1 savers
• Worldcoin: a solution in search of its problem1 savers
• Casey Handmer's blog – Space, Travel, Technology, 3D Printing, Energy, Writing10 savers
• The future of electricity is local – Casey Handmer's blog1 savers
• Grid Storage: Batteries Will Win – Casey Handmer's blog5 savers
• Guac - Industry leading demand prediction for grocery1 savers
• What I Learned From Developing Branding for Airbnb, Dropbox and Thumbtack | First Round Review5 savers
• Tyler’s guide to falling in love with NYC28 savers
• Transferring ETH · Ethereum Development with Go1 savers
• mymind is the extension for your mind.8 savers
• Chat-with-GPT4 - a Hugging Face Space by ysharma1 savers
• Water War: Is Big Agriculture Killing Brazil’s Traditional Farms? - Yale E3601 savers
• Home | Speculative Technologies4 savers
• Large Language Models for U.S. National Security | Scale AI1 savers
• itselectric - Curbside EV Charging Built for Cities2 savers
• Phind: AI search engine5 savers
• Layer 2 | ethereum.org2 savers
• This Isn't New2 savers
• Rust Language Cheat Sheet3 savers
• course-2022-11-25 Session 2 Notes - uncloak1 savers
• Home1 savers
• Practical Deep Learning for Coders - 3: Neural net foundations1 savers
• Maroofy1 savers
• Breaking News Headlines and Media Bias | Ground News2 savers
• Artifact1 savers
• Invest1 savers
• ChatGPT: Optimizing Language Models for Dialogue3 savers
• Microsoft Word - 03_Trites Volume 11 issue 2 Final.docx2 savers
• The days are long but the decades are short - Sam Altman73 savers
• Quit Your Job59 savers
• Advice for Early Career — Celine Halioua39 savers
• Sam Altman30 savers
• The Most Precious Resource is Agency - by Simon Sarris29 savers
• Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell28 savers
• intensity - by Isabel - Mind Mine21 savers
• The myth of the myth of the well read person20 savers
• Why the Canadian Tech Scene Doesn’t Work20 savers
• Quit Your Job18 savers
• The housing theory of everything - Works in Progress17 savers
• 12ft Ladder16 savers
• What I'm frustrated by in crypto13 savers
• What You'll Wish You'd Known12 savers
• Mochary Method Curriculum - Google Docs11 savers
• DALL·E 211 savers
• education - nabeelqu10 savers
• Bloom's 2 sigma problem10 savers
• https://io0.github.io9 savers
• Atlas Obscura - Curious and Wondrous Travel Destinations9 savers
• The Expanding Dark Forest and Generative AI8 savers
• Beyond Smart7 savers
• Discover 30+ Most Useful Websites On The Internet | Insanely Useful Websites6 savers
• Zotero | Your personal research assistant5 savers
• A Study Guide for Human Society, Part I – The Scholar's Stage4 savers
• The Brand Identity3 savers
• 50 social impact innovations that might save the world - Board of Innovation3 savers
• Magic Quadrant Research Methodology | Gartner2 savers

highlights · 18

• When it comes from a sustainable source, charcoal burning is essentially carbon-neutral, because it doesn’t release any new carbon into the atmosphere

  Could we reboot a modern civilisation without fossil fuels? | Aeon Essays

• They’ll say, “I used to read 50 books a year but then I realized that I forgot most of what I read.” That’s a bit like saying, I used to invest for retirement but then I realized that I wasn’t saving as much as I would want to, so now I don’t even bother. The appropriate response is to cut other costs, or at least save what you can.

  The myth of the myth of the well read person

• The man of action serenely regards ruin as the most likely possible outcome, mitigates it where he can, and leaps anyway

  Quit Your Job

• decentralization was valuable insofar as it mitigated some other fundamental risk: censorship, platform security, corruption, etc. It’s the properties decentralization gives us that we care about, not decentralization itself.

  Why Decentralization Isn't as Important as You Think - haseeb qureshi

• Do things which force you to absorb the main ideas from books, like writing reviews or organizing discussions

  The myth of the myth of the well read person

• IceNet extends the range of accurate forecasts, exceeding current state-of-the-art performance at 2- to 4-month lead time forecasts for August, September and October. Once trained, IceNet runs over 2000 times faster on a laptop than the current statistical models running on a supercomputer, taking less than ten seconds on a single graphics processing unit

  How AI can help tackle climate change - Lexology

• AI which predicts changes in the Artic ice pack. Near-surface air temperatures in the Arctic have increased at two to three times the rate of the global average. The September sea ice is now around half that of 1979. Climate simulations project the Arctic will have no sea ice in the summer of 2050, some say as early as 2030.

  How AI can help tackle climate change - Lexology

• In transport, which accounts 25% of GHGs, AI can be used to reduce the use of transport vehicles by optimizing the flow of vehicles, provide more efficient navigation, and facilitate shared transport.

  How AI can help tackle climate change - Lexology

• Explain the reasoning, not just the outcome

  A case study in early-stage startup execution - Wave Blog

• Anyone can join the lower levels and start training. But to move up requires meeting increasingly stringent, objective standards. Very few will develop the skill and dedication to become Synthesis "black belts."

  Part II: Strategy

• Socratic seminars that help students connect their experience from the games to science, history, and their own lives; and COURSES — deep explorations into a particular subject discovered through the games (e.g., network effects, game theory)

  Part II: Strategy

• systems that measure success in terms of money

  A Brief Investigation of Ontario’s most Expensive Undergrad — Tom Grainger

• An elite school becomes an elitist one, where graduates likely to be future leaders are, to borrow from Tapp, “out of touch with today’s reality”

  A Brief Investigation of Ontario’s most Expensive Undergrad — Tom Grainger

• Quadratic Funding Matching can stack when a grant is in multiple rounds. If a $1 donation would generate a $75 matching donation for a grant in the main pool, then the same grant in 3 pools could have a $1 donation generate a $500 matching donation.

  A Vision for A Pluralistic Civilizational Scale Infrastructure for funding Public Goods - 🤖 Meta-Governance - Gitcoin Governance

• An ImpactDAO is any DAO that provides a positive externality, especially positive externalities for the public (not captured by any group).

  A Vision for A Pluralistic Civilizational Scale Infrastructure for funding Public Goods - 🤖 Meta-Governance - Gitcoin Governance

• Don’t copy your neighbors. It’s like a search for keys. Instead of looking in the light, Thiel and his employees look in the dark, where nobody else is looking.

  Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell

• He doesn’t just focus on the brushstrokes. He looks at how the painting is framed.

  Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell

• But psychologically this was not what people were capable of. Because their identity was defined by competing so intensely with other people, they could not imagine leaving

  Peter Thiel's Religion - David Perell