Nathan Taylor

My substack is about tech trends and the near future. Here on twitter I mostly tweet links about science, tech, econ. Mostly.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@elidourado I switched from Apple to Spotify because my teenage daughter kept getting playlists should couldn’t use. She dances and sharing songs easily is important.

Short answer: network effects.

Personally I found Spotify playlist centric approach better. But not by a lot

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@ModeledBehavior Randomly just listened yesterday to this podcast episode which covers this exact transition.

Great if you are music nerd. 🙋‍♂️

Likely too much for many. But give it a try if that’s your thing.
https://t.co/3DecNzw9UY

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@ModeledBehavior There’s a huge, one time shift in pop music due to amplifiers. Cf chuck berry 1955. That divide persists. 1955 pop closer to 2023 than anything before 1940s.

Singers no longer sang in shouting style to be heard

Guitar stopped being rhythm, became a solo/riff instrument.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

💯👍

[Shawn Presser @theshawwn]

Best AI song I’ve seen yet.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

My temporary banishment to working from the garage is officially over. 🎉🥳

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

When neighbors call the police to shut down loud parties....

"But you see police _can’t_ shut it down. This is what politicians intended when — and this important — in 2017 NYC passed a law explicitly preventing police from shutting down parties."
https://t.co/WUFWjK4cuT

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

Threads/twitter adoption from FT. Ridiculously rapid to 50m daily users in a week. Now at 11m daily users, versus 110m twitter.

Headline "Meta’s Twitter rival Threads unravels" is too strong. Many plausible futures: both die, one dies, both live.
https://t.co/sw1U5Kw2yM

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@ModeledBehavior polluting is sin

even in the odd case where it helps fight global warming.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

links to the two papers discussed in that NYT article

Universal DNA methylation age across mammalian tissues
https://t.co/oCz6Bht0WX

DNA methylation networks underlying mammalian traits
https://t.co/RYtwdR6XaS

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

the pattern of DNA methylation can be used to estimate the age of mammals to within a year. Mostly decreases with age, but some areas increase. It's called the epigenetic clock. Beware Goodhart's law on this one 😀
https://t.co/t1QRao5MDR

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

history of making paper airplanes. how this has fed back into airplane designs. Sort of hodge podge, but fun if you had a paper airplane making phase yourself 🙋‍♂️

bonus!: plan to "launch paper airplanes from the International Space Station (ISS)."
https://t.co/IfRnNzsnO0

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@bonerici Most prediction market have a low number of traders and low volume.

You can show market lags news in an erratic predictable way in this condition.

Or to flip it. For a market price to be up to date it needs > certain $ trade volume, and > number of traders.

[Noah Smith 🐇🇺🇸🇺🇦🇹🇼 @Noahpinion]

Now down to 5%.

[Philippe Lemoine @phl43]

I disagree with Bryan on a number of issues, such as immigration, but I think he is a good man and a model of intellectual virtue. The fact that so many people see this tweet as an indictment, rather than as a manifestation of that virtue, is very sad.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@razibkhan The Wikipedia post has some really weird language about this only being a theory. Instead of a settled question.

I guess that explains why it has that language. Couldn’t figure it out until now.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

related paper. broad thesis is short term memory is synaptic. long term memory is molecularly encoded.

biology is messy, so probably a bit of everything.

But this idea is really interesting! It implies ML (synaptic approach) has no long term memory 🧐
https://t.co/1Vo8gWhXPr

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

Excellent podcast interview from @pgmid of David Glanzman, who makes the case for long term memory being encoded at the molecular level.

Which is why transferring RNA from a trained donor to another animal can induce memories in the recipient. 🤯
https://t.co/uQfypHnQRz

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@ByrneHobart Bees explore alternate potential new sites for hives and “vote” on the best potential hive site against alternatives
https://t.co/i5ZCwZc4lH

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@whyvert @RichardHanania I dont recall fukuyama saying convergence of culture across the board, just convergence of governance.

Within broad liberal democracy there’s still plenty of room. Of course that culture is constrained to one which is compatible with end of history.

[Nathan Taylor @ntaylor963]

@Empty_America Ok boomer

<narrator: I’m a boomer too. It’s ok>