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Five years ago I bet on one project, ten times as awesome. Here's the update, and where Heureka Labs is going next.
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The limits of AI
In a recent experiment, I asked ChatGPT to create a Western blot, then to make it more realistic. The results? A fascinating journey that reveals much about the current state of AI.
A lot can happen in a year
I started this website as a project to explore thinking. Because writing is thinking. It started slowly but began to grow . I committed to writing every week for a year. At the end of the year, I sealed the project's fate by publicly announcing that I would write
Flipping Lab Meetings
100% of research labs have LAB MEETINGS. 0% are set up to enable everyone to have a voice. This is how we flipped them to increase engagement, hear from everyone, and save time...
Enhancing Creativity With AI
In the future, creativity will thrive As we learn to think outside the hive We'll imagine and create Innovative things we'll make And our minds will be full of life In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the development of conversational AI technologies,
Synthesizing
Over the past year, I wrote an article every week and sent it to a growing list of curious readers. The topics were eclectic, sometimes meandering, but always related to a simple question: how do you come up with a good idea?
Wait
One of the big ideas in having a minimum viable mindset is to get your ideas out in to the world early. However, if your idea is not yet ready, then have the confidence and foresight to wait. So we wait.
Minimum Viable Mindset
“Publish houses of brick, not mansions of straw”, says Bill Kaelin, Nobel laureate and professor of medicine. Scientists need to write papers that include fewer grand claims and more proof to make the scientific literature more reliable. Scientists need minimum viable discoveries.
How to draw listeners into your story
Imagine you’ve been invited for a presentation, a talk, or a pitch. You’ve been allotted 15- maybe 30-minutes to share your story. Turns out, you only have a few seconds to grab someone’s interest. You need a hook.
But is it art?
The conceptual artist Marcel Duchamp is often seen as a key founder of conceptual art. His 1917 piece 'Fountain' is often cited as the first conceptual artwork. But..."It's a urinal." "I don't get it." "Is it art?" Soon, you will see, this is the wrong question.
Naming things
One of the key functions of science is to organize knowledge. Scientists take new information and classify and categorize it — connect it with the known. Name it. But knowing the name of the thing is not the same as knowing the thing.
Mental models
The DIKW triangle is a way to organize the relationship between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom. When I first came across this model, it resonated with me. But I wanted to understand: how do you move up the hierarchy?
Another newsletter
I had an in-person conference last week, the first in years for most of us. There, I ran into a colleague on the street. After the customary, "how have you been?", she asked me, "are you still writing that newsletter? I think it's really important." Why did she say this?
Dynamic range
In a common parable, a group of blind men heard that a strange animal called an elephant had been brought to the town. The moral of this story is that humans have a tendency to view the world through their experiences. But this is not the whole story.
Counting cycles
We published a paper last week. 🎉 We worked on this project for several years, plus one additional year for the editorial process (broken, I know). A conservative measurement estimates at least 5 years from start to finish. If a cycle takes 5 years to complete, how many cycles are left?