Paul Hansel

Tag: humor

  • The untapped potential of whale brains: FishBux(tm)

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    [The authors do not condone exploitation or abuse of wildlife.] Introduction Whales are an underappreciated part of the marine ecosystem. On the basis of their brain-to-body mass ratio, they have a similar capacity for learning as humans or elephants. Dolphins and killer whales, in particular, can collaborate via intentional acoustic communication to achieve tasks like…

  • Pack it up, Mark: a 15-year Thanksgiving retrospective

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    Way back in January 2009, I joined Mark Zuckerberg’s Facebook. Poke! It’s now November 2024. I’m not yet 30, so 15 years is a majority of my life. In that time, Facebook’s valuation grew from $10 billion to $1,400 billion, Mark changed up his fit, Myanmar’s military exploited Facebook to execute an ethnic cleansing, and…

  • Silicon Valley Engineers: The Visionaries Who Are Changing Everything

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    Imagine if every cracked engineer in the world converged on Silicon Valley (which, let’s be real, is already happening). Intel would likely leapfrog TSMC. Apple’s phones might actually run cutting-edge AI models locally and boast solid-state batteries. We’d see mobile silicon fabrication units popping up everywhere – and spent units almost as common by the…