FeedCity

The instant a business guy uses a sports metaphor to make his most important strategic point, I am lost. If you want me to understand your business idea, try wrapping it in Wendy Carlos’s secrets of synthesis or quotations by Orson Welles or the punchline to an old joke.

The post You lost me at “infielder.” appeared first on Jeffrey Zeldman Presents.

“American drivers face fresh sticker shock after disruptions from the Iran war intensified in recent days, sending oil over $100 a barrel and national gasoline prices above $4 a gallon,” the Washington Post reports. ”But prices could be poised to go significantly higher, energy analysts and executives warn, as oil markets are forced to recognize […]

US robotics researchers flew to Venezuela with snakebots after getting a call.

Even when he tries to pretend to care about the American military, Donald Trump, the Vietnam War Draft Dodger, lets slip how he really feels. In the wake of four servicemembers killed last week, Trump claimed to have been “very sad” during the dignified transfer of their re...

Before he has fixed the damage he caused to the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, his crew has already damaged another national monument. In this case, it’s the German-American Friendship Garden on the National Mall. “The damage occurred after a contractor vehicle drove ov...

It is common knowledge that Superman, the comic book hero -- that strange visitor from another planet, with powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men -- can never really be killed. However, on this day in 1987, when "Superman IV: The Quest for Peace" (a double Ra...

The Democratic Party is being torn between an establishment that too often refuses to lead and a DSA wing that too often treats ideological conformity as more important than winning. But millions of Democrats belong to neither camp. They want economic populism, reproductive...

Picking 8 tracks. That’s it. That’s the album. Feel free to share yours.

https://thechels.uk/8-track

This essay was written with Barath Raghavan, and originally appeared in The Guardian.

Major benchmarks measure what AI can do. None measure whether it does what you mean: the distance between what you ask an AI to do and the unspoken assumptions about how you want the AI to do it. We propose a new metric: the Genie coefficient.

There’s often a gap between one person’s request and another’s understanding. Most of the time, we bridge it using general knowledge. For example, if you ask a friend to get you coffee, they’ll pour a cup from the pot or buy one from a coffee shop. They won’t bring you a bag of raw beans or snatch a cup from a stranger and hand it to you. You never specified any of this. You never had to...

“The Trump administration announced a new round of tariffs up to 12.5% on 60 trading partners on Thursday, preventing a lapse in import taxes as a temporary tariff program nears expiration,” Axios reports. “Why it matters: It shows the White House’s determination to preserve its tariff agenda by turning to new trade laws as earlier […]

“She has President Trump’s endorsement and is a sympathetic figure after the death of her brother, Sen. Lindsey Graham. As Graham’s temporary replacement, she’s a symbol of the political brand he built over more than two decades in the Senate,” Axios reports. “Driving the news: Even so, Darline Graham faces an uphill battle to win […]