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| 1 | +--- |
| 2 | +description: "Looking beyond ozempic, Dublic halloween hoax, my dive into fabrics, radical covenants, and obits." |
| 3 | +draft: false |
| 4 | +heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80 |
| 5 | +heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar |
| 6 | +pubDate: "2024-11-06T00:00:00.000Z" |
| 7 | +tags: ["weeknote", "focus"] |
| 8 | +title: "2024 Week 44 - Weekly Notes" |
| 9 | +--- |
| 10 | + |
| 11 | +> Practice = Purpose + Frictionless Systems + Consistency |
| 12 | +> -- Source Unknown |
| 13 | +
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| 14 | +Last week felt weird. Like a strange Halloween that was misplaced. I was heavily distracted by election news this week and have been putting off the previous week's notes. |
| 15 | + |
| 16 | +BBC - [Dublin: Hundreds gather in streets for hoax Halloween parade](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4y1j91x7o) |
| 17 | + |
| 18 | +I'm continuing the week notes format like I did last week with topic-based notes. It seems to be helping me get acclimated to stop organizing everything. |
| 19 | + |
| 20 | +Expect more election news next week as I get caught up. |
| 21 | + |
| 22 | +### Pendulum Therapeutics - Beyond Ozempic |
| 23 | + |
| 24 | +Kevin Rose interviews Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - [Beyond Ozempic: The Probiotic That Finally Stops Chocolate (& Food) Binges. Join Our Science Trial.](https://www.kevinrose.com/p/a-natural-alternative-to-glp-1-drugs) |
| 25 | + |
| 26 | +Also, Peter Attia's interview with Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - [Gut health & the microbiome: improving and maintaining the microbiome, probiotics, prebiotics, innovative treatments, and more](https://peterattiamd.com/colleencutcliffe/) |
| 27 | + |
| 28 | +Unfortunately, the [promotion](https://pendulumlife.com/products/glp-1-probiotic-kevin-rose-partnership?dsc_appld=true) has ended. A normal 3 month supply will cost $185 - [Store Page](https://pendulumlife.com/products/glp-1-probiotic) |
| 29 | + |
| 30 | +### Mixing ML with Alternative Meats |
| 31 | + |
| 32 | +Frontiers publication - [Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for cultured meat](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1424012/full?mc_cid=bcaf8c7510) |
| 33 | + |
| 34 | +> We address four major areas of cultured meat research and development: establishing cell lines, cell culture media design, microscopy and image analysis, and bioprocessing and food processing optimization. |
| 35 | +
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| 36 | +### Fabrics |
| 37 | + |
| 38 | +I've been reading [The Golden Thread](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43862307-the-golden-thread), and that reminds me I should listen to [Articles Of Interest](https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast). |
| 39 | + |
| 40 | +<iframe |
| 41 | + class="aspect-video w-full my-2" |
| 42 | + src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/zTPFn3Fam1M" |
| 43 | + title="Podcaster Avery Trufelman Shares How Her Love for the Radio Led Her to 99% Invisible" |
| 44 | + frameborder="0" |
| 45 | + allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" |
| 46 | + allowfullscreen></iframe> |
| 47 | + |
| 48 | +### Abstraction-less |
| 49 | + |
| 50 | +Adam Argyle - [Headless, boneless, skinless & lifeless UI](https://nerdy.dev/headless-boneless-and-skinless-ui) |
| 51 | + |
| 52 | +### Sunbelt meets TSMC |
| 53 | + |
| 54 | +Bloomberg - [TSMC’s (2330 TT) Arizona Chip Production Yields Surpass Taiwan’s](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/tsmc-s-arizona-chip-production-yields-surpass-taiwan-s-a-win-for-us-push?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyOTgzMDExOSwiZXhwIjoxNzMwNDM0OTE5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTFRTODlUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFQTExNDNDNTM4NEE0RUY5QTg5RjJEN0IxMTg2MzcwOSJ9.PLKspxac5LtsWqeVAHUyInvC-yO8VcFVgDTcantJkBI) |
| 55 | + |
| 56 | +### Embeddings |
| 57 | + |
| 58 | +Kayce Basques - [Embeddings are underrated](https://technicalwriting.dev/data/embeddings.html) |
| 59 | + |
| 60 | +### Process Studies Takeaways |
| 61 | + |
| 62 | +Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) - [Notes From The Progress Studies Conference](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/notes-from-the-progress-studies-conference?hide_intro_popup=true) |
| 63 | + |
| 64 | +- Progress is good, but progress slowed around 1970. Nobody knows why, but theories include shifting social attitudes, over-regulation, or exhausting the potential in a few big inventions like electricity and mass production. This slowing was a great historical tragedy. |
| 65 | + |
| 66 | +### A good tool is worth its price |
| 67 | + |
| 68 | +Dylan Fitzgerald - [Good tools are worth paying for](https://dylanfitzgerald.net/blog/good-tools-are-worth-paying-for/?utm_source=changelog-news) |
| 69 | + |
| 70 | +### Election Chaos |
| 71 | + |
| 72 | +I'm writing this post-election, so some of this is kind of outdated now. |
| 73 | + |
| 74 | +- [Did My Friends Vote](https://app.impactive.io/did_my_friend_vote) - the website is now down until counties finish counting. This was good to double check my voting record. |
| 75 | +- [Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating](https://katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson) - No wonder the pre-election chaos was so noisy. This happened close to where some friends live |
| 76 | + |
| 77 | +### Impact Printing |
| 78 | + |
| 79 | +Ars Technica - [3D printing buildings without cement](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/impact-printing-is-a-cement-free-alternative-to-3d-printed-structures/) |
| 80 | + |
| 81 | +### Racial Covenants |
| 82 | + |
| 83 | +<iframe |
| 84 | + class="aspect-video w-full my-2" |
| 85 | + src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/q-awBg5VcPo" |
| 86 | + title="Stanford AI project helps find Santa Clara County racial covenants" |
| 87 | + frameborder="0" |
| 88 | + allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" |
| 89 | + allowfullscreen></iframe> |
| 90 | + |
| 91 | + |
| 92 | +- [Stanford RegLab, Princeton, and the County of Santa Clara Collaborate to Use AI to Identify and Map Racial Covenants From Over 5 Million Deed Records](https://law.stanford.edu/press/stanford-reglab-princeton-and-the-county-of-santa-clara-collaborate-to-use-ai-to-identify-and-map-racial-covenants-from-over-5-million-deed-records/) |
| 93 | +- [AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County](https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/) |
| 94 | + |
| 95 | +### Obits |
| 96 | + |
| 97 | +- [Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s Cinematic Collaborator, Dies at 86](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/movies/paul-morrissey-dead.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241029&instance_id=138078&nl=the-morning®i_id=197092347&segment_id=181637&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef) |
| 98 | + - The Criterion Collection - Current - [Paul Morrissey, Before and After Warhol](https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8639-paul-morrissey-before-and-after-warhol) |
| 99 | +- [Teri Garr, Comic Actress in ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/arts/teri-garr-dead.html) |
| 100 | + - [Teri Garr’s Life in Pictures](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/movies/teri-garr-photos.html) |
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