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WorkWorkHow consulting lost its cool - Business Insider For one young woman who joined Accenture right out of college, consulting was a crash course in the corporate world. She became a whiz with tools like Excel and Tableau and she learned how to speak to executives.
WorkWorkDo AI companies work?Large language models cost a fortune to build. OpenAI, which is reportedly in the process of raising $6.5 billion, needs $6.5 billion dollars, because, “by some estimates, it’s burning through $7 billion a year to fund research and new A.I. services and hire more employees.” Anthropic is expected to spend $2.7 billion this year. Facebook is spending billions more.
WorkWhy the Video Game Industry Cant Shake Its StrugglesDuring an investor meeting Wednesday, Ubisoft announced it was pushing back the release of “Assassin’s Creed Shadows” from November to February 2025, citing the weak performance of August’s “Star Wars Outlaws” and less-than-expected profits in the current quarter. WorkThe Rat Studies that Foretold a Nightmarish Human Future - The New Yorker Rats can’t vomit. This may be a function of their anatomy—their stomachs are “not well structured for moving contents towards the esophagus” is how one study delicately put it—or it may have something to do with their brain circuitry, or it may be a combination of the two. Whatever the cause, the result is that rats, contrary to their popular (or unpopular) image, are fussy eaters. Even as they pick through the trash, they’re hesitant to try new foods. This makes poisoning them complicated; quite often—and quite literally—they won’t take the bait.
WorkThe Fight to Save Chile's Glorious White StrawberryIt’s nearly Christmas in the foggy Nahuelbuta Range of south-central Chile and berries the size and color of ping-pong balls are ripening in small gardens that tumble down steep forested slopes. The dwindling number of aging farmers who still cultivate these frutillas blancas have just five weeks to comb these gardens and harvest their goods. Five weeks to make a year’s worth of profit. Work WorkFear of a Soviet-style collapse keeps Xi Jinping up at night - The Economist IN LATE SEPTEMBER workers erected a structure in Tiananmen Square. It is 18 metres tall, resembling a basket of fruit and flowers. Displays have sprung up across Beijing in celebration of the 75th anniversary on October 1st of the founding of Communist China. This one bulges with giant peaches and gourdssymbols of long life. But Chinas leader, Xi Jinping, worries about how long-lived his partys rule will be. WorkNASA is selling a brand-new Moon rover - The Economist NASA HAS big plans for the Moon. By the end of the decade, it wants to send humans back to the lunar surface. Before then, though, it intends to send probes to look for ice at its south pole. This ice carries enormous scientific value. It could shed light on how Earth acquired its liquid water; it is also ripe for conversion into rocket propellant. WorkHow much more are health cares bosses making than their employees? - STAT My colleagues and I completed our annual tradition of analyzing CEO compensation. For 2023, we input data for 313 health care CEOs and found they made $3.5 billion combined last year, compared with $4 billion in 2022. The average chief executive brought home $11 million, while the median was $4.1 million. Those figures compared to an average of $13 million and median of $4.3 million in 2022. WorkY Combinator Traded Prestige for GrowthY Combinator is arguably the most successful early-stage VC fund or accelerator ever. The issue, however, is that they never truly grasped the factors behind their success, which is why YC's peak is already behind them—it’s likely all downhill from here. WorkWorkWorkThis Podcaster's Superpower Can Be Summed Up in One Word - Inc Hello and welcome toModern CEO! Im Stephanie Mehta, CEO and chief content officer of Mansueto Ventures. Each week this newsletter explores inclusive approaches to leadership drawn from conversations with executives and entrepreneurs, and from the pages ofInc.andFast Company. If you received this newsletter from a friend, you cansign up to get it yourselfevery Monday morning. WorkUseful quantum computers are edging closer with recent milestones - New Scientist Despite all the hype around quantum computers, they are still far too error-prone to be of real use. But recent experiments show that this may not always be the case, boosting the credibility of claims from companies like Google and IBM that we might get useful quantum computers as soon as 2029. These latest experiments represent key milestones and signal that we are entering a new age, say researchers. WorkThe Hunt For The Laws Of Physics Behind Memory And Thought - Discover Magazine One of the curious features of the laws of physics is that many of them seem to be the result of the bulk behavior of many much smaller components. The atoms and molecules in a gas, for example, move at a huge range of velocities. When constrained in a container, these particles continually strike the surface creating a force. WorkWorkIsrael launches 'targeted ground raids' in Lebanon: Latest updatesIsrael and Hezbollah have traded fire across the Lebanon border almost daily since October 8 last year. There were reports from journalists in Tel Aviv on X (formerly Twitter) of projectiles being intercepted in the city and elsewhere in central Israel on Tuesday morning. WorkThe insatiable hunger of (Open)AI Wim Vanderbauwhede(Open)AI needs enormous amounts of energy and compute hardware. Meeting these needs would lead to a huge increase in CO₂ emissions. The only way to avoid catastrophic warming is to drastically reduce CO₂ emissions. In other words, the planned growth of (Open)AI is entirely unsustainable. WorkProduct Hunt isnt dying its become gentrified Launch Point Zero BlogThere has been no shortage of content of how Product Hunt is either not worth the trouble, or has changed, or is dead. The incident involving Jason Levin leaving because the current CTO didn’t know who their most popular member was, the layoff of 60% of their staff, the number of paid for services offering to help your startup be the #1 product launch of the day, the number of complaints, all of these and more are symptoms of the same problem. WorkWorkWorkWorkUkraine faces its darkest hour - FT As he returns home from the US, President Volodymyr Zelenskyy must deal with Russian advances, an exhausted society and the prospect of winter energy shortages WorkWorkWorkEvidence of Negative Time Found in Quantum Physics Experiment - Scientific American Quantum physicists are familiar with wonky, seemingly nonsensical phenomena: atoms and molecules sometimes act as particles, sometimes as waves; particles can be connected to one another by a spooky action at a distance, even over great distances; and quantum objects can detach themselves from their properties like the Cheshire Cat from Alices Adventures in Wonderland detaches itself from its grin. Now researchers led by Daniela Angulo of the University of Toronto have revealed another oddball quantum outcome: photons, wave-particles of light, can spend a negative amount of time zipping through a cloud of chilled atoms. In other words, photons can seem to exit a material before entering it. WorkWorkTim Walz, J. D. Vance, and the Politics of Place - The New Yorker American democracy has never been entirely democratic. But, though the countrys Founders did not seek to empower every person, they did think a lot about how to empower almost every place. Most of human history before the nations founding had featured rulers who were so local that they were either in your family or in your neighborhood. Rulers not only knew your pain; they had felt it and even lived it, too. A democracy spanning great distances, then, such as the one envisioned by the Founders of the United States, was both a relatively new and deeply intimidating proposition. Elected leaderscongressmen, senatorsmight start off as neighbors, but they would then go on to distant places like the capital, where they would rule as strangers. WorkDisabling a Nuclear Weapon in MidflightIn 1956 Henry Kissinger speculated in Foreign Affairs about how the nuclear stalemate between the United States and the Soviet Union could force national security officials into a terrible dilemma. His thesis was that the United States risked sending a signal to potential aggressors that, faced with conflict, defense officials would have only two choices: settle for peace at any price, or retaliate with thermonuclear ruin. Not only had "victory in an all-out war become technically impossible," Kissinger wrote, but in addition, it could "no longer be imposed at acceptable cost." WorkHow Chicken Tenders Conquered AmericaAlong the way, the chicken tender has become a symbol, although its meaning is hard to pin down. It can be an icon of simple, straightforward, unpretentious American taste. It can also be an expression of dull, unadventurous food engineered for the lowest common denominator. Restaurants, in their drive to stand out, have expended great effort devising crunchier breading, zestier dipping sauces, more tender tenders. And yet all the sauces in the world will never quite dispel the suspicion that the tender itself is, at heart, not very exciting. WorkWorkWorkWorkWoman killed in NT town's second suspected DV death since JulyIn Australia, the crisis support service Lifeline is on 13 11 14 and the national family violence counselling service is on 1800 737 732. In the UK, Samaritans can be contacted on freephone 116 123 and the domestic abuse helpline is 0808 2000 247. In the US, the suicide prevention lifeline is 988 and the domestic violence hotline is 1-800-799-SAFE (7233). 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