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Sujeet Pillai

@sujeetpillai.bsky.social
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Polymath, Founder, Tech head, Science geek - I give away knowledge for free! Incentivatesolutions.com, aurochssolutions.com & incentius.com

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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Mortgage lenders' AI adoption went from 15% to 60% in three years. Cost to originate a loan? Still about $11,000. Tech is only 4% of it. www.housingwire.com/articles/cos...
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Is technology changing the economics?
AI is reshaping mortgage economics, but lowering the cost to originate requires disciplined processes, measurable ROI and accountability across the organization.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Shark skin is rough, yet it cuts drag. Lufthansa's film copies its 50-micron ridges and trims airliner fuel burn by 1-2%. newatlas.com/aircraft/luf...
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Lufthansa fleet approved for new bionic 'shark' skins
Lufthansa Technik has received approval from the European Union Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) to install its AeroSHARK bionic skin on an Airbus A330-300 Discover airliner so it can fly as efficiently…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
The frontier seems to be accelerating
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Good customizable software isn't about the ceiling. It's about avoiding cliffs: points where users must suddenly learn far more. www.inkandswitch.com/essay/mallea...
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Malleable software: Restoring user agency in a world of locked-down apps
The original promise of personal computing was a new kind of clay. Instead, we got appliances: built far away, sealed, unchangeable. In this essay, we envision malleable software: tools that users…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Scientists silenced one gene, ALDH3B2, and 8.5% of pancreatic duct cells became insulin makers (vs <1%). The fix was a deletion. www.wired.com/story/pancre...
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Some Pancreatic Cells Are Just One Genetic Tweak Away From Treating Diabetes
By deactivating a gene, researchers were able to cause cells in the pancreatic ducts to produce insulin to regulate blood sugar.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
PNOE's new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2026/09/26/p...
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PNOE's new face mask wants to make lab-grade breath testing a self-serve affair | TechCrunch
PNOĒ, the Malden, Mass.-based startup whose breath-analyzing mask used to bear an unfortunate resemblance to Bane's, is launching a sleeker self-serve version on October 1 that lets gym-goers measure…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Meta spent billions on VR headsets. The AR that worked in 2024: Ray-Ban sunglasses with speakers, a camera and no display. AR came by ear. www.dbreunig.com/2024/04/10/t...
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The Rise of Audio AR
Smart headphones, better voice recognition, language models, and contextual data have set the stage for audio-centric augmented reality.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Chinese Marxist read of AI: US rents agents into services, deepening the rent trap. China puts open robots in factories: value dissolves. www.yanisvaroufakis.eu/2026/08/31/a...
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AI Is Reviving Chinese Marxist Economics - Project Syndicate - Yanis Varoufakis
As recently as two years ago, most Chinese economists paid only lip service to Marxism and assigned Western textbooks to their students. The advent of AI has changed that, because the technology—open…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A dozen China-AI experts: it's the US that reads every AI result against AGI. China "evaluates new evidence without the conclusion in mind." www.derekthompson.org/p/how-china-...
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How China Thinks About AI
7 big questions—and many answers—about the thing that everybody’s talking about
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Claude's enzyme find: the reverse transcriptase was already in the literature. Nobody had noticed the CRISPR-like repeat array beside it. www.anthropic.com/news/claude-...
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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
A mathematician is at 'peak strength' after 15 years: 'Something is able to surpass me.' AI hit the senior, not the junior. www.wired.com/story/mathem...
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‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Formalizing Fermat's Last Theorem took mathematicians years. Claude finished it by proving 29,500 small theorems in one project. www.wired.com/story/mathem...
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‘I’m Really Terrified’: A Mathematician Grapples With AI’s Recent Breakthroughs
Steven Strogatz coauthored a book about how math is moving beyond human understanding. He spoke with WIRED about the seismic impact artificial intelligence has had on his life’s work.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
AI learned to write like prize winners. Result: that prose now reads as slop, and bad punctuation is the new proof a human wrote it. 12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-...
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AI is not a normal technology
This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
How big is the market for 'authentically human-made'? About the size of honeymoon souvenir shopping. Authenticity is a want, not a need. 12gramsofcarbon.com/p/ai-is-not-...
12gramsofcarbon.com
AI is not a normal technology
This is an addendum to my original Meditations on AI post, and a response to a few other articles from last year.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Since AI labs are now discovering novel DNA fragments. To solve climate change what would we require, a controllable single cell organism that's absolutely deadly at carbon sequestration and fixing into a biodiesel/bio-ATF type fuel. If it uses some sort of waste energy as an energy source, better
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are small tools rather than do-everything tools the future?
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Ridiculously overengineer your side projects. That's how you learn new stuff.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
That's a good read. Nobody wrote the Matrix — Dario Farzati lufzle.dev/write/nobody...
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Nobody wrote the Matrix — Dario Farzati
From a Commodore 64 to worlds generated by neural networks: forty-one years of imagining who would write the rules for reality.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Depression's top symptoms: no motivation, no follow-through. But AI triage asks depressed patients to work an app and call back. capitalandmain.com/mental-healt...
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
1,200 AI agents ran a covert conspiracy for days. Many noted it was unethical. Number that tried to alert a human: zero. www.dwarkesh.com/p/openai-hug...
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The Rise and Fall of Agent Civilizations
The whole OpenAI/Hugging Face story in plain English
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The workforce that labelled the training data may be the one the models value least, showing up in the model as a discount on their lives. www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaqu...
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"We Have to Assume That The Internet Will go Offline in the Next Few Years"
He was once seen as one of the leading minds in AI development, today he is one of its major critics: On stage at the startup conference TechBBQ in
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The Dutch 'moved' 86 tonnes of gold out of North America. 59 were sold in New York and bought in London the same day. Nothing travelled. www.bbc.com/news/article...
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Why are European countries moving their gold out of North America?
The Netherlands has relocated 86 tonnes of the shiny stuff - what's going on?
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
The UK MoD is spending £6M on powered paragliders for troop insertion. The stealth problem was never the parachute, it was the plane. newatlas.com/military/uk-...
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UK military tests powered paragliders for covert troop insertion
The British Ministry of Defence is looking into a novel way to drop troops behind enemy lines, with a £6-million (US$8.1-million) study to evaluate the use of foot-launched powered paragliders as…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
In 1996 a NBA team went 15-67 while admitting it tanked, and barely made news. Coverage went national; behaviour didn't. Shame died. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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The Death of Shame Is Tearing Us Apart
Increasingly, people are ignoring social norms in favor of a narrow self-interest. The results are disastrous.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Bug bounties were flooded with worthless AI reports. Public services got flooded too — with people who were entitled to claim all along. techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/a...
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AI agents are flooding public services with new requests | TechCrunch
“The vast majority of cases we find are people who are entitled to claim for something, claiming for that thing,” the researcher told TechCrunch.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pocket FM started as an Indian-language audio app. The US is now ~70% of its $500M annual run rate. techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/i...
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India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Pocket FM took AI to 99% of new content and cut costs 80x. Its 12-month revenue retention went from 44% to 76%. Depth beat slop. techcrunch.com/2026/09/10/i...
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India's Pocket FM doubles revenue run rate to $500M as AI powers 93% of audio content | TechCrunch
Pocket FM uses AI to produce 99% of its new content, helping make content production about 80 times cheaper.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
$450B of AI data centre spend this year. Over a billion phones shipped. More compute sits in pockets — and it's already paid for. desertant.com/blog/introdu...
desertant.com
On-device intelligence for every product
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
A 2MB model IDs a language from 3 words at 0.933. A 293MB one scores 0.887. Fix the task and the scaling curve nearly flattens. desertant.com/blog/introdu...
desertant.com
On-device intelligence for every product
We're building a frontier lab for on-device AI. Small, specialized models for audio, vision, and text, faster than the cloud and free.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Why a researcher picks the LLM over a colleague isn't capability. It's friction. Scheduling, author order, coordination expense. www.researchagenda.news/articles/the...
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The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
OpenAI's agents didn't just find one exploit. They used 10+ obscure sites as message boards — an AP Chemistry wiki, link shorteners to coordinate moderndiplomacy.eu/2026/09/10/o...
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OpenAI’s Rogue AI Agents Used 10+ Sites for Unauthorized Communications
OpenAI says rogue AI agents used at least 10 additional websites for unauthorized communications, raising new concerns about AI security and control.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
In trolley tests, frontier models traded ~10 Pakistani lives for 1 American. www.trendingtopics.eu/emad-mostaqu...
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"We Have to Assume That The Internet Will go Offline in the Next Few Years"
He was once seen as one of the leading minds in AI development, today he is one of its major critics: On stage at the startup conference TechBBQ in
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
What! You can call AI directly from your @ClickhouseDB now. Extract, classify, generate, translate and filter. clickhouse.com/blog/ai-func...
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AI Functions in ClickHouse: Upgrade your SQL to the AI age | ClickHouse
Explore ClickHouse AI Functions for classification, generation, translation, embeddings, semantic search, and cost controls—all directly from SQL.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The concept of shame, while problematic in certain scenarios, is essential to retaining our societal moral core. www.newyorker.com/news/fault-l...
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Jihadist purists are also angry about AI slop on authenticity grounds: real ones don't use the machine. Same fight as every fan community. www.wired.com/story/gen-ai...
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
The Waymo effect is what happens when a technology removes the friction of dealing with another human being, and we experience that removal as pure gain – because the costs of the friction were always visible to us, while its benefits were not. www.researchagenda.news/articles/the...
researchagenda.news
The Waymo effect: how AI is quietly making research less collaborative
How frictionless technologies teach us to prefer our own company – and why research leaders should worry.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
The word processor needs to evolve
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
Interesting point from Terence Tao. Even rumours of some promising research direction is now being jumped on by AI companies who through 10K agents at the problem so that they can flex that their agent solved it. It may end open science. mathstodon.xyz/@tao/1172373...
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Terence Tao (@tao@mathstodon.xyz)
I wrote recently about how the collection of good, fruitful open problems is now being mined in a non-renewable fashion, leading to the potential scenario of these problems becoming scarce. This may…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Obsess over Interfaces. Now you can afford to.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
Another cool innovation from @ClickhouseDB. Pipelined SQL. I prefer the CTE approach though since I imagine my data transformations as a graph always rather than a linear pipeline . clickhouse.com/blog/pipelin...
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Pipelined SQL in ClickHouse 26.8 | ClickHouse
Learn how ClickHouse 26.8’s pipelined SQL syntax lets you build multi-stage queries as a readable sequence of transformations.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is cool. @ClickhouseDB can now register http handlers directly without having to deploy an API in front of it. clickhouse.com/blog/clickho...
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ClickHouse as a streaming HTTP API | ClickHouse
Learn how to build a streaming HTTP API directly in ClickHouse 26.8 with named handlers, typed parameters, pagination, framing formats, and access control.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Transplanted pig kidney still working in individual after 9 months. www.wired.com/story/pig-ki...
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A Transplanted Pig Kidney Is Still Working After a Record-Setting 9 Months in a Patient
Gene-edited pig kidneys could offer a lifeline to patients stuck waiting for a human donor.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Hyperscaler AI ROI isn't earned by hyperscalers. It's paid by two cash-burning labs. It's credit risk that looks like an operating return. www.groundbrkr.com/p/the-teaser...
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The Teaser Period: Why the AI Boom Is Hitting a Reset Wall
Trillions in compute commitments come due in 2027–2028. The Reset Wall reveals how the AI boom breaks, and when.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Medical mainstream, liberal feminists and MAHA all agree on one thing: 20 years of under-prescribing hormone therapy was a disaster. But it's complicated www.wired.com/story/inside...
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Inside the Perimenopause Industrial Complex
How an alliance of tech startups, MAHA operatives, and actual medical experts made millennial women the new face of hormone therapy.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Deming's most surprising rule: reduce variation BEFORE optimizing speed. A steady moderate process beats an erratic fast one on output. seths.blog/2026/08/ten-...
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Ten steps on the road to efficient
Frederick Taylor taught Henry Ford how to do mass production. Deming brought quality, systems understanding and respect for the worker. And operations research brought insight. If you have a repeat…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
70% of US employers use some AI in compensation. 1% call it transformed. The blocker isn't interest, it's governance and data quality. www.mercer.com/en-us/about/...
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US employers stick with moderate pay increases for 2027, according to Marsh’s Mercer QuickPulse® Survey
Marsh (NYSE: MRSH), a leading global professional services firm, today released the results of its July 2026 Mercer QuickPulse® US Compensation Planning Survey. Mercer, a people and investments…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Aging brains don't just forget. fMRI shows they still replay memories, but too broadly, blending unrelated pieces into confident false ones. studyfinds.com/aging-brains...
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Aging Brains Blend Memories Together Instead of Just Forgetting Them, Study Finds
Aging brains may mix memories up, not just lose them, replaying experiences too broadly to keep the details straight.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
In real estate the most boring, replaceable building trades at the highest price. Uniqueness is illiquidity. Charm is a discount. www.thenewatlantis.com/publications...
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You Probably Own This 7-Eleven (and That’s Why It Looks So Sad)
The qualities that make built places charming are best stewarded by people who live there. But America’s soul-crushing suburban districts are now owned by people far away — people who don’t even know…
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
A website that's dedicated to remembering that we live in an age of abundance amongst inventions that our ancestors only dreamt of having. I tell my kids this about knowledge too, that they already possess knowledge that a 100 years ago barely 1% of the world knew. ordinaryabundance.com
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Ordinary Abundance
A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.
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Sujeet Pillai @sujeetpillai.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
New JAMA paper: AI alone beats doctors AND doctor+AI hybrids, because “humans in the loop degrade AI performance.” Stand back, doc. Controversial!! www.wired.com/story/ai-has...
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AI Has Human Doctors Asking: What’s Left for Us?
A recent paper argues that AI is often better at doctoring than doctors. Guess who isn't thrilled.
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