Why We Still Don’t Really Know Who’s Good at Football
This is why this sport is so interesting in the end.
Society
Why are single men so miserable?
Men are actually more family oriented than women. “Recent research has shown that single women are overall more satisfied with their lives.” https://www.vox.com/even-better/458700/single-men-mental-health-romance-friendship-relationships-masculinity
Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
If the models are so good, how come the company making them cannot make profit? “even if you remove the cost of training models from OpenAI’s 2024 revenues (provided by The Information), OpenAI would still have lost $2.2 billion fucking… Read More »Why Everybody Is Losing Money On AI
Are you a drug dealer?
I have read about Steve Jobs that he does not allow his children to use iPhones, or Bill Gates doing similar stuff with social networks and his kids. Not sure if it is true, but it made me think. If… Read More »Are you a drug dealer?
Middle East Support
I love this Wired series.
Why countries trade with each other while fighting
This topic has always fascinated me. ““This mental image that everyone has, that we don’t trade with our enemies during war, is actually an artifact of the world without any neutral rights,” Grinberg says. “Once we develop neutral rights, all… Read More »Why countries trade with each other while fighting
Why is China smashing its tech industry?
Maybe it is just different values and culture. “China may simply see things differently. It’s possible that the Chinese government has decided that the profits of companies like Alibaba and Tencent come more from rents than from actual value added… Read More »Why is China smashing its tech industry?
“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.” Why?
Simple as this. “Never repeat in the clear the identical text of a message once sent in cryptographic form, or repeat in cryptographic form the text of a message once sent in the clear. Anything which will enable an alert… Read More »“This telegram must be closely paraphrased before being communicated to anyone.” Why?
Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back
Why having one strong leader is always bad in the end. “When you have a leader that strong, it creates a lot of big risks for a country — even one as large, productive, and technologically advanced as China. These… Read More »Xi Jinping is the main thing holding China back
Stumbling through history towards beer
History of beer is much more interesting than you think. “Whether the drink somehow made its way from the Mideast to northern Europe or was independently invented by the Gauls and/or the Germans is unclear. Some see a Babylonian influence… Read More »Stumbling through history towards beer