Juan Orbea

It seems very unintuitive because we're in a very unusual place in the world. It's only over the last couple of hundred years there's such a wild discrepancy between rich countries and poor countries where people in which countries have 100x the income of the poorest people in the world and where we have the technology to be able to change the... See more

Not to mention people's capacity to study more as an attempt to improve how "smart" they were was virtually futile.

Many are based on the work of the Ball Foundation, founded by Carl and Vivian Elledge Ball. In 1981, the couple published a set of 16 ability tests designed to identify aptitudes across a range of domains, such as analytical reasoning, short-term memory, eye-hand coordination, and vocabulary. Aptitudes, in the Balls’ way of thinking, can be thought... See more

Reverse Engineering the Human Brain: Five Parallel Auditory Pathways

Second, because VCs are investing earlier, they are taking far more risk on the ability to scale up these technologies, even if they can be proven to work.

However, growth in magnetic memory is not primarily a matter of Moore’s law, but includes advances in mechanical and electromagnetic systems. The following two charts show the overall growth of the Internet based on the number of hosts. These two charts plot the same data, but one is on an exponential axis and the other is linear. So from the... See more

Imagine you crossed by a shallow pond in which a kid was drowning. At that point in time, you are wearing your most expensive outfit (say, $5k). It is reasonable to affirm that most people in that situation would save the child from drowning, in spite of ruining their outfit, and it is clear that this would be the most ethical decision to make. We... See more