The weekend is right here! Pour your self a mug of espresso, seize a seat outdoors, and prepare for our longer-form airplane reads:
• The place within the World Are Individuals Again within the Workplace? A metropolis’s density, the scale of individuals’s houses and cultural norms are among the many elements that have an effect on hybrid work patterns. (New York Times)
• How Tiger International, one of many greatest backers of startups over the previous decade, fell to earth: Troubled efficiency apart, some inside bickering started to floor to restricted companions—and the broader public. In January, a settlement between a former worker and the agency reportedly started circulating amongst Tiger buyers. And this summer time, an anonymously written and damning memo that made aggressive, but unsubstantiated, claims concerning the agency’s efficiency, funding method, and personnel began circling far and huge inside Wall Avenue and Silicon Valley circles. It’s the type of squabbling and a spotlight that makes LPs look twice at an funding. One factor appears to be clear: Somebody has it out for the agency. And the timing couldn’t be worse. (Fortune)
• 15 Concepts, Frameworks, and Classes from 15 Years: Developing on this anniversary, I mirrored fairly a bit on my profession. And one of many issues I considered was all the teachings I’ve realized through the years. And I believed {that a} enjoyable method to have a good time can be to take the time and write down a few of these concepts and classes which have come to affect my considering. (Flirting with Models)
• Tales are dangerous to your intelligence: How Historians (and Others) Make Themselves Silly. (The Ruffian)
• Why You Are Most likely A Non-Participant Character: It’s getting ever tougher to differentiate people from bots, not simply because bots have gotten extra humanlike, but in addition as a result of people have gotten extra botlike. Right here’s why: the mind is usually considered a considering machine, nevertheless it’s extra typically the alternative: a machine that tries to avoid considering. It’s because cognition prices time and energy, which in our evolutionary historical past had been scant assets. As such, the mind developed to be a “cognitive miser” that operates in response to the precept of least effort, taking shortcuts in considering and perceiving that construct a workable however massively simplified (and price efficient) mannequin of the world. (The Prism)
• The AI-Powered, Completely Autonomous Way forward for Conflict Is Right here: Ships with out crews. Self-directed drone swarms. How a US Navy job pressure is utilizing off-the-shelf robotics and synthetic intelligence to arrange for the subsequent age of battle. (Wired)
• Silicon Valley’s imaginative and prescient for AI? It’s faith, repackaged. It’s no accident — the intertwining of faith and know-how is centuries outdated. (Vox)
• How a conservative, gun-toting physician defended abortion entry in Appalachia: “We did all the pieces,” he stated of his longtime apply. “We had been a gynecologist’s workplace and we delivered infants. And we simply occurred to do abortions.” It was simply one other a part of offering care, as routine as doing hysterectomies and prescribing contraception. That places him at odds with a few of his neighbors. Since 1978, Adams has lived in Bristol, a neighborhood that straddles the Tennessee-Virginia state line — unapologetically Trump nation, unequivocally a part of the Bible belt. His perception that sexual well being care is regular has meant that his life is something however. You would possibly say that he’s the face of abortion in Bristol if it weren’t for the truth that he doesn’t actually need folks to know what he seems to be like. (Stat)
• In a Monster Star’s Mild, a Trace of Darkness: Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure darkish matter which may remedy a long-standing cosmic thriller. (Quanta Magazine)
• The million-dollar hustle altering US sport – how school soccer athletes are cashing in: School soccer within the US is large enterprise. The game, which kicked off its new season final weekend, is awash with cash. (BBC)
You’ll want to take a look at our Masters in Business interview this weekend with Jon McAuliffe co-founder and Chief Funding Officer at the Voleon Group. Voleon was one of many first hedge funds to make use of AI as a core of its investing mannequin. Beforehand, he was at D. E. Shaw & Co., the place he researched, developed, and managed statistical arbitrage buying and selling methods. Dr. McAuliffe additionally helped to construct the recommender system at Amazon.com.