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🚗 The ability to stall an EV with fake manual transmissions sounds fun
The lurch, the dying of the engine sound, and the red flashing of the gear indicator all came down to software. It’s all simulated, all fake, but it made me laugh just the same.
Toyota has built an EV with a fake transmission, and we’ve driven it
Nice article on “Return on Capital Investment”
Strategy =/= Planning
“Strategy is the making of an integrated set of choices that collectively position the firm in its industry so as to create sustainable advantage relative to competition and deliver superior financial returns”
“That strategy is a singular thing; there is one strategy for a given business — not a set of strategies. It is one integrated set of choices: what is our winning aspiration; where will we play; how will we win; what capabilities need to be in place; and what management systems must be instituted?”
Fun read on leaving the vents open
milk is pretty amazing
> “…to consider only milk’s nutrient constituents—to imply that it has a single recipe—is to do it “a disservice,” German told me. Mammalian milk is a manifestation of hundreds of millions of years of evolutionary tinkering that have turned it into a diet, and a developmental stimulus, and a conduit for maternal-infant communication, and a passive vaccine. It builds organs, fine-tunes metabolism, and calibrates immunity; it paints some of an infant’s first portraits of its mother, and telegraphs chemical signals to the microbes that live inside the gut. Milk can sustain echidnas that hatch from eggs, and wildebeest that can gallop within hours of birth; it can support newborn honey possums that weigh just three milligrams at birth, and blue-whale calves clocking in at up to 20 tons. Among some primates, it influences infants’ playfulness, and may shape their sleep habits and bias them toward certain foods. Some of its ingredients are found nowhere else in nature; others are indigestible, still others are alive”
[The Atlantic] (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2023/06/milk-mammalian-evolution-nutrition/674487/)
lost Jdilla tape pitchfork.com/features/…
I forgot that “the childe Roland” poem was a Browning one, who was inspired from a King Lear line
Course on improving statistical inference www.coursera.org/learn/sta…
A full workup of the labs for Intro to Statistical Learning in tidymodels format emilhvitfeldt.github.io/ISLR-tidy…
15 sub-cities of Chicago
Carbon Dioxide Removal Primer cdrprimer.org
UCDavis: 82% of avocado oil rancid or mixed with other oils
Common statistical tests are linear models
DON’T THINK TO WRITE, WRITE TO THINK