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how is it 2023 and nobody's come up with a satisfying explanation as to why cell phones never show up in our dreams if we're using them for 12 hours a day?
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I like this idea.
If I was an academic, I would run a bizarro "open lab" where I post all the ideas I didn't have time for, and then have bounties for anyone who shows the initiative.
scibetter.com/openlabs
Increase the surface area of serendipity.
I have lots of ideas for economics papers I'd like to write but not so much time to write them. So I decided to just post many of them publicly to see if anyone else wants to write them:
economistwritingeveryday.com…
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5/ So next time you're considering using crypto to make a purchase, consider using a zero knowledge proof cryptocurrency like Zcash for added privacy and security. I am sure you don't want anyone to know how much crypto you have.
Very interested to try this cooperative board game about climate change from the creator of Pandemic. backerkit.com/c/alex-hague/d…
If you thought AI text-to-image was fun/interesting/scary, just wait for text-to-video. phenaki.github.io/
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OMG In the Penguin Random House/S&S antitrust trial it was revealed that out of 58,000 trade titles published per year, half of those titles sell fewer than one dozen books. LESS THAN ONE DOZEN.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
This seems to be a misunderstanding of annual punishing statistics which show sales of all books regardless of year of publication. It's definitely not true that most newly published books manage less than a dozen sales.
countercraft.substack.com/p/no-most-book…
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New X-wing battery holder available now on @printablescom. Keep up to 11 batteries on your desk in this fun #StarWars inspired holder.
printables.com/model/248529-…
#3Dprinting
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Hayao Miyazaki’s "My Neighbor Totoro" Is Getting Adapted for the Stage by The Royal Shakespeare Company & Jim Henson’s Creature Shop
openculture.com/2022/07/haya…
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Time zones are weird. I just got back from the UK which is now 8 hours and 150 years ahead of us.
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heavenbanning, the hypothetical practice of banishing a user from a platform by causing everyone that they speak with to be replaced by AI models that constantly agree and praise them, but only from their own perspective, is entirely feasible with the current state of AI/LLMs
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Pro Tip: To crescendo on a held note on piano, you simply play the chord, then ask the audience to run towards the piano at high speed
I found the most Japanese show ever. Aimed at kids (I think), it reminds me of Pocoyo or maybe Pingu.
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Every supervillain has a backstory- here's mine.
Why Do I Look Like...This? The SexyCyborg Origin Story
A few of you know the broad strokes, this is more detail about how it happened-
youtu.be/Z9vW_MpXTfs
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America is a bimodal distribution for everything: fitness, intelligence, wealth. And Europe is a normal distribution.
Pick your continent based on your place in the distribution. – at Miami Beach, FL
