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In 1951, Adelbert Ames created the mind-boggling ‘Ames Window’. It’s so effective that even when you know how it works you can’t break the illusion
[video from The Curiosity Show: buff.ly/36DvRNs]
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1/ From today's AI@ event: we announced our Imagen text-to-image model is coming soon to AI Test Kitchen. And for the 1st time, we shared an AI-generated super-resolution video using Phenaki to generate long, coherent videos from text prompts and Imagen Video to increase quality.
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This weekend I built =GPT3(), a way to run GPT-3 prompts in Google Sheets.
It's incredible how tasks that are hard or impossible to do w/ regular formulas become trivial.
For example: sanitize data, write thank you cards, summarize product reviews, categorize feedback...
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You're under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
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Thread: some still open contradictions in my thoughts and my values, that I have been thinking about but still don't feel like I've fully resolved.
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Insane picture of astronaut Bruce McCandless II, the first person to conduct an untethered free flight in space.
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“Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.”
-Rick Warren
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In 1995, Bill Gates attempting to explain what the Internet is on the Late Night Show. The host of course ridiculed him. Reminds me how some of us are still ridiculed by the media trying to explain things like Bitcoin, augmented reality, etc…
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And no, I didn’t know where things would be going from there. 😅. People overestimate vision and underestimate what you can build when you follow your curiosity one step at a time for a decade+
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“Real numbers can’t exist, because you can’t hide them inside black holes.” — Ahmed Almheiri, physicist at the Institute for Advanced Study. quantamagazine.org/does-time…
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how it started: how it’s going:
ALT Die photo of the ARM1 processor (1985) with 25 thousand transistors.
ALT Die photo of the Apple M1 Max processor (2021) with 10-core ARM and 57 billion transistors.
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• Do what interests you the most.
• Spend time with nature.
• Ask questions.
• Never stop learning.
• Don't pay attention to what others think of you.
• Read everyday.
• Study hard.
• Teach others what you know.
• Make mistakes and learn.
• It's Okay to not know things!
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You are under no obligation to remain the same person you were a year ago, a month ago, or even a day ago. You are here to create yourself, continuously.
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Humans are 34% of global mammal biomass. Our livestock and pets are *62%* of global mammal biomass. Wild mammals are just 4%. 😮
ourworldindata.org/mammals HT @_HannahRitchie
