Welcome to the ABEND dump #26!
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Tech boss uses AI and ChatGPT to create cancer vaccine for his dying dog
This is WILD! This is what I want AI for, a truly relevant use case. I feel like there's so much potential for applications in medicine. What a time to be alive!
I know, I know. There's plenty of reasons to be wary about AI, but let's be positive for a moment, this is truly good and magical!
And speaking of which...
Explore Sid's Data
Sid Sijbrandij, former GitLab CEO, is fighting an osteosarcoma (a rare bone cancer). He's open-sourcing his experimental treatment data to help advancing cancer research.
Sid rocks!
The internet was weeks away from disaster and no one knew
How Pokémon Go is giving delivery robots an inch-perfect view of the world
"When the product is free, you are the product" -- in the AI era, this sentence never made more sense than now.
Systems Thinking is Brain Rot for Analysts
This got me thinking.
Building a Second Brain
I forgot to recommend this book in the previous issue.
Last year I got hooked into the Zettelkasten system to organize my thoughts in a digital world, but it was simply too complex to grasp, and what really made it work for me was following the PARA Method presented by Tiago Forte in Building a Second Brain book.
I may write more about it here, eventually.
There's a version of this book written in portuguese too, which was the one I read.
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