Merlin Mann: “There are many fascinating rum…” - Mastodon — So true.
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Can A.I. Find Cures for Untreatable Diseases—Using Drugs We Already Have? | The New Yorker
Next year, Fajgenbaum plans to publicly release scores for the tens of millions of drug-disease pairs that Every Cure’s A.I. platform has examined. For virtually any disease, researchers, doctors, and patients will be able to visit a website and see much of what his team saw—a prospect that, to me, sounded both empowering and overwhelming. The database is sure to offer useful ideas, but it could also generate floods of inquiries from patients and families about untested remedies.
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Amazon.com: Abscond: A Short Story eBook : Verghese, Abraham: Kindle Store — I highly recommend this short story. One the best I’ve read in a long time (Amazon affiliate link)
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Air India Plane’s Fuel Was Cut Off Before Crash, Report Confirms - WSJ — This was intentional. Not human error; not a design error; not a mechanical failure.
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What’s Brilliant About the New ‘Superman’ - The Atlantic — okay, okay… I’ll watch it.
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macOS Tahoe finally puts the Spotlight where it belongs | Macworld — This is my favorite feature of the betas.
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The Deadliest Stroad in America
“The places with the most pedestrian deaths tend to look like US-19 in one way or another: high-speed, with multiple lanes, and lots of commercial and residential development around them,” Cogan wrote. “Three-quarters of them are bordered by low-income areas, where people may be less likely to have access to a car. They are in places as diverse as Langley Park, Maryland; Albuquerque, New Mexico; Manhattan, New York; and Los Angeles, California. They’re places where pedestrians are forced to cross roads that are dangerous by design, alongside trucks and SUVs that are getting bigger and deadlier all the time.”