These signs work for raising awareness as much as they do for prevention. Case in point: we were half an hour too late to see those sea turtle eggs being deposited, so the next few mornings we were up even earlier for our morning walks hoping to catch another nesting. Without any luck, of course.
Three key ingredients for well-being: a good cup of coffee, a clear view of the outside trees, a trusted mouse-catcher.
🍿 Paddington (2014) is the perfect family movie to which we were 10 years late, but it was worth waiting for every family member to be able to appreciate it. Too sappy and twee for adults? Perhaps. But did it make our kids laugh and cry? Also, yes, and you don’t often find the crying bit in movies like this any more.
A perfect sunny day in the Windy City, which may not be called “Windy” for the reason you think.
Peace and quiet are all relative. For my wife and me nothing could be more serene that a morning walk down an empty beach on a nice day. For the birds trying to catch food and constantly running away from the waves, I imagine life is quite hectic.
The previously mentioned Axios Local newsletters continues to be a delight to read every morning. To take a quote from today’s edition, discussing the absolute horror of someone cheating at bar trivia:
In a town filled with people trying to relive their Model UN glory days, trivia isn’t just some silly bar game — it’s the D.C. equivalent of flexing shirtless on Muscle Beach.
While this isn’t what most of DC is actually like, there are many people living here who would like it to be this way and that also tells you something.
The Paxlovid Phase 3 trial in the vaccinated population showed no difference from placebo. The gamble didn’t pay off, and $10 billion went down the drain instead of funding many, many clinical trials. The best science in the world won’t help if you don’t have the right priorities (and conversely, stamping “science” on your priorities doesn’t make them right).
The foliage may not be the prettiest, but the that cherry is a thing of beauty. At Green World Coffee Farm on Oahu last October.
Google is in trouble and I am not surprised at all that they are looking at a paid subscription model for a new kind of search:
Google began testing an experimental AI-powered search service in May last year, presenting more detailed answers to queries while also continuing to present users with links to further information and advertising. However, it has been slow to add any of the features from what it calls its “Search Generative Experience” experiment to its main search engine.
These kinds of search results, which include an “AI-powered snapshot”, are more costly for Google to serve up than its traditional responses because generative AI consumes a lot more computing resources. It has offered access to SGE to only a select few users, including some subscribers to its Google One bundle that offers benefits such as extra cloud storage for a monthly fee.
Just today ChatGPT 4 answered a basic question — how to do multivariate regression in Excel — with a response miles better than the SEO spam I got from an online search. Having abandoned Google more than a decade ago, I won’t shed any tears.
Jonathan Haidt’s interview with Tyler Cowen was excruciating and my opinion of Tyler deteriorated significantly, but it was the push I needed to order Haidt’s new book. I thought I’d skip it because we were already in perfect agreement but I’ll make sure to turn on my confirmation bias shields.