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Welcome to the inaugural edition of 5-Link Friday.
Our goal with posts of this nature is to share five links- just 5 links- with you which we believe is at the intersection of science and technology, economics, progress, and individual autonomy.
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Episode 001 of The Inductive Economy is Live! 🎧
We are thrilled to share our latest episode featuring the insightful Siddharth Tripathi, where we delve deep into HR, Startups, Culture, Self-Discovery, and Music and Movies.
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Your 5LF
Gemini by Google DeepMind
From Demis Hassabis -
“Gemini is the result of large-scale collaborative efforts by teams across Google, including our colleagues at Google Research. It was built from the ground up to be multimodal, which means it can generalize and seamlessly understand, operate across and combine different types of information including text, code, audio, image and video.”
Link here 👉 : https://deepmind.google/technologies/gemini/#introduction
Note: Sergey Brin being a core contributor to Gemini is the epitome of peak technical founder (See image below) .
(H/T: https://twitter.com/nearcyan/status/1732509656478880039)
Biggest Breakthroughs of 2023
A fascinating thread outlining the biggest advances made in 2023 in the realms of science and technology by Gavin Leech - from biocomputers to digital spinal implants that’ve made a quadriplegic man walk.
Link here 👉 : https://twitter.com/g_leech_/status/1731263549182206291
Tiny, Human-cell Robots bring us closer to true personalized medicine
Scientists at UPenn have created anthrobots which are tiny robots made of human tracheal cells which can repair neural tissues.
Link here 👉 : https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-03777-x
Are startups which are born during Recessions fare better?
From the abstract-
“We combine novel micro data with the quasi-random timing of patent decisions over the business cycle to estimate the effects of being born in the Great Recession on innovative startups. After purging ubiquitous selection biases and sorting effects, we find that recession startups experience better long-term outcomes in terms of employment and sales growth (both driven by lower mortality) and future inventiveness. While funding conditions cannot explain differences in outcomes, a labor market channel can: recession startups are better able to retain their founding inventors and build productive R&D teams around them.”
Link here 👉 : https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4298934
NASA’s Psyche Delivers First Images and Other Data
Already 16 million miles (26 million kilometers) from Earth, the spacecraft will arrive at its destination – the asteroid Psyche in the main asteroid belt between Mars and Jupiter – in 2029. The team wanted to test all of the science instruments early in the long journey to make sure they are working as intended, and to ensure there would be plenty of time to calibrate and adjust them as needed.
Link here 👉 : https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/nasas-psyche-delivers-first-images-and-other-data
Thanks for reading the inaugural edition of the 5-Link Friday.
We’ll be back next week with the latest dose of progress, science, and prosperity for your consideration.
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