Science

Cool Science Tricks This website of Cool Science Tricks started out as a fun project with my kids during the Christmas holidays (2005). We wanted to put together a list of quick and fun and fascinating things to try, such … Read more

Generally, when differentiating fantasy from science fiction, a very simple key is used: if it is pre-modern, it is fantasy, and if it is futuristic, it is science fiction. Thus a story set in ages before industrial revolution is automatically … Read more

TL;DR: Aya is an open science project that aims to build a state of art multilingual generative language model; that harnesses the collective wisdom and contributions of people from all over the world. Cohere For AI is a research lab … Read more

Richard P. Feynman; drawing by David Levine Richard Feynman was the Michael Jordan of physics. His intellectual leaps, seemingly weightless, defied explanation. One of his teammates on the high school math team in Far Rockaway, Long Island, recalls that Feynman … Read more

Photo cred: my dad There are two kinds of problems in the world: strong-link problems and weak-link problems. Weak-link problems are problems where the overall quality depends on how good the worst stuff is. You fix weak-link problems by making … Read more

Former General Electric CEO Jack Welch once nearly died of a heart attack. Years later he was asked what went through his mind while he was being rushed to the hospital in what could have been his last moments alive. … Read more

If you’ve ever emerged from the shower or returned from walking your dog with a clever idea or a solution to a problem you’d been struggling with, it may not be a fluke. Rather than constantly grinding away at a … Read more