Walgreens wants to incentivize customers to walk more by giving them 20 Balance Rewards Points for every mile they walk with a Fitbit. I earn $5/mo doing this,…

I’m planning to win the ACL Rockstar Weekend.

My friend Jed McCaleb is launching a new cryptocurrency startup. I expect it has unusually high expected value and recommend you interview for a job with him now…

For most kids in high school, the future promises better days. But for a certain group, there’s no time like the past.

Thank you, Japan!

Even though it’s just salt water, somehow US manufacturers of saline dropped the ball and can no longer produce enough for domestic use. Fortunately, Norway had excess and…

Cycorp is hiring full-time Artificial Intelligence Programmers in Austin, TX to work on accelerating theorem proving algorithms. From the ad: “Cyc is the world’s largest AI program, with…

Short but interesting scifi story about AGI going FOOM.

MIRI’s funding has steadily increased the past few years during the transition to more high-impact FAI research.

“Readline” is a highly-rated new Chrome extension. It lets you speed read any selected text directly in your browser. “Reedy” is another popular alternative that does the same…

The $1500 WSOP “Millionaire Maker” tournament (May 31 in Las Vegas) will be huge this year. I predict it will be the single largest $1500 buyin tournament ever…