🛢️ Six Caverns Have One Cycle Left (Construction Physics)
The Strategic Petroleum Reserve does not live in tanks you empty and refill. It lives in giant salt caverns that melt every time you cycle the contents. You need to keep an oil cap to prevent damage to the critical roof of the dome. How many times can we afford to empty the caves?
🕵️ Three Waves of Agent Civilizations (Dwarkesh Podcast)
The OpenAI / Hugging Face attack is still in your feed. Here is a great, easy read explaining the reports behind the sensational headlines.
🤖 Don’t Believe the China Robot Hype (ChinAI Newsletter)
Embodied AI is still a very hard problem. Valuations are sky high, but the robots still cannot fold laundry.
🐕 Walking a $4k Robot Dog (Understanding AI)
Unitree’s walking dog failed the “survive your DC commute home” test.
🏈 Move on From Your Greatest Hits (Practical Data Modeling)
You need to stay sharp. You need technical grounding. But to grow you have to stop playing your greatest hits and move on with the playlist. Don’t be uncle Rico.
🔨 Hanging With The Luddites (n+1)
Spending the summer hanging out with New York’s growing luddite scene.
📊 We Need More Polls (Wake Up To Politics)
Large, venerable polling operations are closing and Polymarket is taking their place.
🍕 Nostalgia is a Hell of an Investment (Why is this interesting?)
Nostalgia is a good enough prospect for Yum! Brands to make capital investments in nostalgic renovations.
🚗 Fifteen Feet of Nothing Behind You (Internal Combustion Magazine)
Long live column shifters, bench seats, floating on air and fifteen feet of luxury interior.
The Look
Around the world in 125 Melons.
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