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Sunday, August 2, 202642 min read
Parenting · Parenting Research

Giving iron before anemia shows no measured cognitive benefit

Iron reliably reverses developmental delay once an infant is already anemic, but the randomized trial built to match a healthy, breastfed six-month-old found no cognitive gain from giving it beforehand.

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Daily Reading · Paper of the Day

word2vec's most famous demo predates word2vec

The King–Queen analogy that made the paper famous first appeared in an earlier RNN model, and the version word2vec actually ran only works with its own question words ruled out as candidates.

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Investing · Investing Course

A chipmaker's cost of capital runs more than double a utility's

Cost of capital sets the hurdle a company's return on invested capital has to beat for growth to create value instead of destroying it.

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Daily Reading · Tech News

Tech News · 2026-08-02

GPT-5.6 rewrote the code that serves it, and OpenAI cut its cheapest tier's price 80% in the same release.

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Daily Reading · Word of the Day

Ewing Named Hysteresis for a Wire Four Years Before His Magnet Paper

The Tokyo-based engineer's 1881 term for a lag in twisted iron now names economists' claim that a labor-market shock can permanently reset what counts as normal unemployment.

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Daily Reading · Current Events

Trump cancels a strike on Iran, citing a deal Iran denies making

The same day, federal investigators were probing a suspected Iran link in a hacking campaign against water utilities in at least seven states.

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