Mark Zuckerberg's Day Organization | AI Implants Enable Paralyzed Man's Movement | Mathematician's Disappearance Mystery | 'Dune' Influence on Global Conflict

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� � � � � � Eight Hours Of Sleep And No Back-To-Back Meetings: How Mark Zuckerberg Organizes His Days - Forbes    As Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg heads toward middle age—he's turning 40 next May—he spoke with Forbes about lessons he's learned in his nearly two decades of running Facebook (now Meta), plus piloting a helicopter and reading Harry Potter with his daughter. The CEO of Facebook parent Meta—who once embodied the hoodie-clad, hackathon, boy wonder startup founder—has grown up after running the social networking giant for almost two decades. For years, Zuckerberg had been cast as one of Silicon Valley’s most notorious leaders, as Facebook faced ire from lawmakers and the public for allegedly crippling democracy, being used as a tool to fuel genocide and harming users as the company chased relentless growth. Zuckerberg, who turns 40 next year, has since begun a transformation into one of tech’s elder statesmen—especially as he plays foil to Elon Musk and his chaos at Facebook rival X, formerly known as Twitter. Continued here � � � � � � Don't like ads? Go ad-free with TradeBriefs Premium AI, implants form 'digital bridge' to help paralyzed man move arms, hands | CNN -     A 46-year-old Swiss man who was paralyzed after falling on ice has regained some movement after a world-first surgery that installed an implant on his brain that uses artificial intelligence to read his thoughts, his intentions to move, and transfers them to a second implant in his abdomen that stimulates the right muscles to make parts of his body move as his brain wants them to. “Thought-driven movement” is how Onward, the Dutch company behind this technology, describes the pioneering process. “While it is still too early to provide full results, we are pleased to report that the technology works as expected and appears to successfully reanimate his paralyzed arms, hands, and fingers,” the company said. Continued here � � � � � � The Mysterious Disappearance of a Revolutionary Mathematician - The New Yorker    While living in an internment camp in Vichy France, Alexander Grothendieck was tutored in mathematics by another prisoner, a girl named Maria. Maria taught Grothendieck, who was twelve, the definition of a circle: all the points that are equidistant from a given point. The definition impressed him with “its simplicity and clarity,” he wrote years later. The property of perfect rotundity had until then appeared to him to be “mysterious beyond words.” Grothendieck became a revered mathematician. His work involved finding the right vantage point—from there, solutions to problems would follow easily. He rewrote definitions, even of things as basic as a point; his reframings uncovered connections between seemingly unrelated realms of math. He spoke of his mathematical work as the building of houses, contrasting it with that of mathematicians who make improvements on an inherited house or construct a piece of furniture. Colin McLarty, a logician and philosopher of math at Case Western Reserve, told me, “Lots of people today live in Grothendieck’s house, unaware that it’s Grothendieck’s house.” The M.I.T. mathematician Michael Artin, who worked with Grothendieck in the early sixties, laughed when I asked him about Grothendieck’s contributions. “Well, everything changed in the field,” he said. “He came, and it was like night and day. It was a revolution.” When Grothendieck was forty-two years old, he abruptly left the field of mathematics. For a while, he still did occasional private mathematical work—“to my own surprise, and despite my long-standing conviction,” he later wrote, “that I would never publish a single new line of mathematics in my lifetime.” By the time he was sixty-three, his whereabouts were known by almost no one. Nor was it known whether he was still pursuing solutions to the problems that had obsessed him for decades. Stories circulated of a bearded man wearing a long robe, hermited away somewhere in the Pyrenees. Continued here � � � � � � 'Dune' Foresaw—and Influenced—Half a Century of Global Conflict - WIRED    Just before his deployment to Iraq in 2003, Ryan Kort spotted a paperback copy of Dune in a bookstore near Fort Riley, Kansas. The 23-year-old second lieutenant was intrigued by the book's black cover, with an inset image of a desert landscape next to the title and the silhouettes of two robed figures walking across the sand. Despite its 800-plus pages, its small print made it a relatively compact cubic object. So he bought it and carried it with him to the Gulf, the only novel he packed in his rucksack along with his Army manuals and field guides. Kort read the book during moments of downtime over the next weeks, as he led his platoon of 15 soldiers and four tanks through the Kuwaiti desert, and later when they took up residence in a powerless, abandoned building in Baghdad. It told the story of a young man who leaves a lush green world and arrives on the far more dangerous and arid planet of Arrakis, which holds beneath its sands a critical resource for all of the universe's competing great powers. ("At the time, when people said 'This is a war for oil,' I would kind of roll my eyes at them," he notes regarding the Iraq War. "I don't roll my eyes about that anymore.") The parallels felt uncanny, he remembers. As the call to prayer rose up around him one afternoon in that darkened building in Iraq's capital, he says he sensed a connection to Dune. Reading the book felt almost like seeing into a larger story that mirrored the one in which he was playing a small part. "Something in the book really clicked," he says. "It transcended the moment I was in." Continued here

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