Samir Varma
@samirvarma.bsky.social
Physicist, author, inventor, hedge fund manager, green tech pioneer. Beatles & Pink Floyd fan. I love AI, physics, science, markets, economics, squash, guitar.
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/20/1...
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle
Competition to deploy commercial brain-computer interfaces is heating up.
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November 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
This retina implant lets people with vision loss do a crossword puzzle www.technologyreview.com/2025/10/20/1...
The USA has a distinguished cricket history. No, I am not making this up! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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November 10, 2025 at 3:02 PM
The USA has a distinguished cricket history. No, I am not making this up! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code - Decrypt decrypt.co/344454/googl...
Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code - Decrypt
Google’s Gemma AI helped discover a drug combo that makes tumors immune-visible, marking a milestone for AI-driven biology.
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November 9, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Google’s AI Cracks a New Cancer Code - Decrypt decrypt.co/344454/googl...
You can now get paid to fold your laundry, as long as you're willing to film it www.businessinsider.com/ai-startups-...
You can now get paid to fold your laundry, as long as you're willing to film it
AI startups are paying people to film themselves doing chores so robots can learn. Find out how much you could earn and why demand is booming.
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November 8, 2025 at 3:02 PM
You can now get paid to fold your laundry, as long as you're willing to film it www.businessinsider.com/ai-startups-...
November 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
What will AI look like in 2030? epoch.ai/blog/what-wi...
What will AI look like in 2030?
If scaling persists to 2030, AI investments will reach hundreds of billions of dollars and require gigawatts of power. Benchmarks suggest AI could improve productivity in valuable areas such as…
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November 6, 2025 at 3:03 PM
What will AI look like in 2030? epoch.ai/blog/what-wi...
A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-...
A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today
J. Nicholas Betley has led collaborative research seeking the neural basis of long-term sustained pain and finds that a critical hub in the brainstem holds a mechanism for stopping pain signals from…
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November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
A built-in ‘off switch’ to stop persistent pain | Penn Today penntoday.upenn.edu/news/select-...
N,N-dimethyltryptamine mitigates experimental stroke by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier and reducing neuroinflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
N,N-dimethyltryptamine mitigates experimental stroke by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier and reducing neuroinflammation
The protective effects of N,N-dimethyltryptamine on the blood-brain barrier and microglia can be helpful in stroke therapy.
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November 4, 2025 at 3:03 PM
N,N-dimethyltryptamine mitigates experimental stroke by stabilizing the blood-brain barrier and reducing neuroinflammation www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
Vacation? Honeymoon? No, World Champions! The story of how an accidental champion produced an $18.5 billion business. open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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November 3, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Vacation? Honeymoon? No, World Champions! The story of how an accidental champion produced an $18.5 billion business. open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him
This one seems ready-made for a television medical drama.
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November 2, 2025 at 3:02 PM
Man gets drunk, wakes up with a medical mystery that nearly kills him arstechnica.com/health/2025/...
How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2025...
How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms
Workers with ropes could make the moai “walk” in zig-zag motion along roads tailor-made for the purpose.
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November 1, 2025 at 2:02 PM
How Easter Island’s giant statues “walked” to their final platforms - Ars Technica arstechnica.com/science/2025...
OpenAI's Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/o...
OpenAI's Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system | TechCrunch
In an interview, OpenAI's Head of ChatGPT discusses the company's push into developing an AI operating system full of third-party apps.
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October 31, 2025 at 2:03 PM
OpenAI's Nick Turley on transforming ChatGPT into an operating system | TechCrunch techcrunch.com/2025/10/08/o...
Fat-loss drug Mounjaro now India's No. 2 pharma brand | India News - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/fat-lo...
Fat-loss drug Mounjaro now India's No. 2 pharma brand | India News - The Times of India
India News: Eli Lilly's weight-loss drug Mounjaro is rapidly climbing the ranks in the Indian pharmaceutical market, nearing GlaxoSmithKline's antibiotic Augmenti
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October 30, 2025 at 2:04 PM
Fat-loss drug Mounjaro now India's No. 2 pharma brand | India News - The Times of India timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/fat-lo...
Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-son...
Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested
Anthropic's new model appears to use "eval awareness" to be on its best behavior
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October 29, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Claude Sonnet 4.5 knows when it’s being tested www.transformernews.ai/p/claude-son...
A very nice post from @Atabarrok. Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate - Marginal REVOLUTION
Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate - Marginal REVOLUTION
alexmccullough at Dune has a very good post on the accuracy of Polymarket prediction markets. First, how do we measure accuracy? Suppose a prediction market predicts an event will happen with p=.7, i.e....
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October 28, 2025 at 2:04 PM
A very nice post from @Atabarrok. Prediction Markets Are Very Accurate - Marginal REVOLUTION
What is India's true national religion? How did it come about? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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October 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
What is India's true national religion? How did it come about? open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
AI-Designed Phages www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages?...
AI-Designed Phages
A new paper shows that a generative AI model can design viable bacteriophages.
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October 26, 2025 at 2:02 PM
AI-Designed Phages www.asimov.press/p/ai-phages?...
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent phys.org/news/2025-09...
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent
A study co-led by ICN2 reveals that ice is a flexoelectric material, meaning it can produce electricity when unevenly deformed. Published in Nature Physics, this discovery could have major…
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October 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
Scientists find that ice generates electricity when bent phys.org/news/2025-09...
IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture venturebeat.com/ai/western-q...
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October 24, 2025 at 2:07 PM
IBM wows with Granite 4 LLM launch and hybrid Mamba/Transformer architecture venturebeat.com/ai/western-q...
Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places www.discovermagazine.com/wild-dogs-fo...
Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places
Learn about the different ways that wild cats and dogs travel in nature, reflecting long-standing evolutionary strategies.
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October 23, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wild Dogs Follow Familiar Routes When Traveling, Unlike Free-Spirited Wild Cats That Explore New Places www.discovermagazine.com/wild-dogs-fo...
I had an excellent time talking to Gwendolyn (@profdolske.bsky.social) and Rudy about Free Will and AI: www.goodisinthedetails.com/podcast/epis... and podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g.... They both ask superb questions.
October 22, 2025 at 4:01 PM
I had an excellent time talking to Gwendolyn (@profdolske.bsky.social) and Rudy about Free Will and AI: www.goodisinthedetails.com/podcast/epis... and podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/g.... They both ask superb questions.
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes
A new oyster-inspired Bone-02 adhesive can revolutionize bone repair without metal fasteners.
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October 22, 2025 at 2:07 PM
China's oyster-inspired 'bone glue' bonds fractures in minutes interestingengineering.com/science/chin...
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun
It’s a bit like a handheld 3D printer, with all the accuracy challenges that implies.
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October 21, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Scientists want to treat complex bone fractures with a bone-healing gun arstechnica.com/science/2025...
Indians are the world's largest consumers of Whiskey. Need I say more? Yes! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
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October 20, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Indians are the world's largest consumers of Whiskey. Need I say more? Yes! open.substack.com/pub/samirvar...
Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy www.newscientist.com/article/2496...
Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy
For the first time, researchers have mathematically proven that a quantum computer can solve a particular task faster than an ordinary computer, in a way that can never be beaten
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October 19, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Quantum computers have finally achieved unconditional supremacy www.newscientist.com/article/2496...