2025-04-30
How Avatar Style Affects Your Performance in Virtual Reality Tasks
In analyzing task performance, significant differences were found in both time and obstacle collisions between the different avatars and perspectives. The First-Person Perspective generally led to better performance, particularly for...
Post-Disruption Behavior of KIWI FARMS Members
After Cloudflare’s takedown of KIWI FARMS in September 2022, user activity dropped, with a significant increase in toxicity among newcomers. Social interaction and network centrality were affected, but both core...
Analyzing User Preferences and Performance in VR Tasks
This section analyzes the results from user testing on avatar representation in VR. Key findings show that while no major differences were observed in the first-person perspective, the point-cloud avatar...
Six product skills that will define your leadership journey
Discover six essential lessons to grow as a senior product leader—from driving team performance to influencing executives and owning your career. A must-read for aspiring VPs and CPOs. Read more ...
Everything you need to know about impact-first product teams – Matt LeMay (Product coach and Author)
In this episode of The Product Experience, we welcome back Matt LeMay—author, consultant, and champion of no-nonsense product thinking. We dig deep into the ideas behind his new book, Impact...
When Should Leaders Use AI to Communicate?
As a senior leader, your words carry weight. So even if generative AI can mimic your communication style, that doesn’t mean you should use it for every message. Here’s how...
Interpreting the METR Time Horizons Post
Published on April 30, 2025 3:03 AM GMT[EDIT: initial publication did not have the link to the original post, and was missing the footnotes. Sorry about that! Fixed now.][This has...
Today's Wordle answer for Wednesday, April 30
Today's Wordle: Help with the daily puzzle.
Wagon is a 1-bit card-based spiritual successor to survival classic The Oregon Trail, and wastes no time getting right into the cannibalism
Dysentery is the least of your worries.
The valley of engineering despair
I have delivered a lot of successful engineering projects. When I start on a project, I’m now very (perhaps unreasonably) confident that I will ship it successfully. Even so, in...
Judging types of consequentialism by influence and normativity
Published on April 29, 2025 11:25 PM GMTEpistemic status: Many citations missing.Itzhak Gilboa has defined an irrational decision as one where the decision-maker feels embarrassed when confronted with an analysis...
More than 19,000 NFT images briefly disappeared last week thanks to a server problem
The Clone X collection was only gone for a few hours, but the disappearance raised some rather pointed questions.
Ukraine’s Defeat Would Be Certain if Donald Trump ‘Walks’
Several times this year, President Trump has threatened to walk away from Ukraine and abandon the conflict entirely, leaving support in the hands of a massively under-armed Europe. While Ukraine...
Where Product Growth Begins
Seeing What's Possible - and Leading Others There
It's a legal issue, not something AI is here to fix
Microsoft has released a demo of an AI-generated version of Quake you can play in the browser (well, desktop browsers, iPads aren’t good enough, apparently). And I don’t mean a...
I'm honestly shocked, but Arc Raiders is a much more exciting extraction shooter than Marathon
After 4 hours with both shooters, Bungie should be worried that Embark will steal its spotlight.
Stunning Mach 6 Air Force Breakthrough: SR-72 Darkstar Is More Than a Top Gun Plane
The SR-72 is one of the most secretive projects currently in development. Often called the “Darkstar” based on its portrayal in the film Top Gun Maverick (the plane doesn’t actually...
Challenger 3 vs. France’s Leclerc Would Be a Tank War For the Ages
The Challenger 3 and the Leclerc Main Battle Tank are among the top 10 most advanced tanks in the world. Both are fine vehicles that blend firepower, mobility, and survivability....
No updates for now as I'm trying to resolve a QoL issue: I'm using Auth0 for authentication. It's ra
No updates for now as I'm trying to resolve a QoL issue: I'm using Auth0 for authentication. It's rather well known provider but up until now I've been using generic...
The SR-72 Darkstar Freaked China Out So Much It Moved Satellites to Spy On it
SR-72 Darkstar in ‘Top Gun’ Wowed Audiences—It Also Worried the Chinese: While filming the latest “Top Gun,” Chinese spy satellites trained their eyes on mockups of the SR-72, a proposed—but...
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