“It was the first draft I watched all the way through, the first time I understood that a team I loved could reach into a room full of teenagers and pick one, and that the pick would then belong to us. Sweetney belonged to us.”
Knicks writer and lifelong fan Lee Escobedo reflects on Mike Sweetney, the 2003 lottery pick so many wrote off as a bust, and revises his verdict
Cancer prevention is becoming personalized. Medical oncologist Daniel Flora on emerging biomarkers and how they can help "intercept" disease—and why "more testing" isn't always the right call https://t.co/5ngtoseWsR
Question: would you rather be a middle-aged man now or thirty years ago, in 1996? I sometimes feel grievance and nostalgia. But when I did the analysis, things are pretty great today despite trade-offs.
I wouldn’t make that trade. It’s not even close. https://t.co/BFcEJbGjN5
The fears of AI causing human degeneration have gotten out of hand. "Cognitive surrender" is bunk. AI will not make students "soft." I blame H.G. Wells for all this fear. Darwin says we'll be fine. https://t.co/aTcbJpZjZ3
There are no signs the Steelers intend to resume contract negotiations in-season with CB Joey Porter Jr. But all other options are on the table, including Porter playing next week against Cincinnati — or a trade.
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"The fundamental puzzle, then, is not why some people believe false things, but how any of us, some of the time, manage not to."
Philosopher Dan Williams @danwilliamsphil on how the same social machinery that produces knowledge makes us vulnerable to delusion—and why "solitary reasoning is treacherous"
This is a good explanation for why we're not going to get sustained double-digit economic growth no matter how fast AI capabilities improve. The demand point is particularly important IMO. https://t.co/TlomUZBn9i
Dave Barry on his wife, the veteran sportswriter Michelle Kaufman, who was laid off by the Miami Herald in the latest round of McClatchy's collapse. So many stories just like this, across the country, on every news beat. The news industry is dying and we're all worse off for it.