Category: Technology
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The Pace of Biology
Last month, Moderna’s stock jumped after its personalized mRNA melanoma vaccine with Merck won a Phase 3 trial. The market paid attention when Moderna announced late-stage trial results for its melanoma cancer vaccine. Their first patient got a dose of the vaccine in 2017, and it took about a decade to prove out. Here’s how…
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Making Canyon Grooves
I am genuinely excited to share what I just built. Canyon Groove plays the actual topography of a canyon as generative music, and it only took me two nights to build. Earlier this year, in March, I was scrolling through Reddit and a photograph stopped me and made me think. It was a close-up, magnified…
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The Week Between Episodes
My friend Jay and I catch up every month or so on Thursday night video calls, which is Friday morning where he is, in Australia. This week Jay said the timing is convenient because his weekly Claude Code allowance resets on Friday afternoons, so Friday morning is a stretch of his week when he’s out…
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The Network Is Watching
Researchers at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology recently used ordinary Wi-Fi routers to identify individual people walking through a room using a new system called BFId. In a study of 197 participants, it identified people with accuracy running up to 99.5%, across different walking styles and viewing angles. There’s no camera, no mobile app, and no…