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Tuesday ◾ August 22 ◾ 2023
Here are this week’s…
A great essay by Nobel-winning physicist Frank Wilczek on the future of technology. Speculations on the Future of Human Evolution.
A smart game that will teach you statistical concepts useful in life and machine learning. Wizard's Guide to Statistics.
Want to hear how a comet or a black hole or a planet sounds? You can listen to the Sounds of Space.
Recast turns your want-to-read articles into rich audio summaries.
A single place for all your personal stuff, like emails, meetings, tasks, links, and any other work resources. Sense.
A beautiful short thought-provoking piece written by Marina Keegan in 2012. She wrote about what she felt during her time at Yale University. She wrote this piece before she died in a car accident. She was 22. The Opposite of Loneliness.
Paula Scher is a world-renowned graphic designer. She was asked to list 10 of her methods that she is using for creating a “state of play” whenever she creates something new or original.
I liked her 8th Rule: Make peace with how you can be influenced. Nothing I make is either entirely new or totally original. Everything I have designed has been influenced by something or someone else. What may make the work seem more original is that I tend to avoid trends so… Paula Scher’s 10 Rules for Play.
Something that may come in handy. Here are 10 Free PowerPoint Templates for better presentations, that are not boring.
There’s an AI for everything nowadays. Here’s one more. This one is for men, and it generates beard styles. Just in case you want to know how you will look with beard, and what beard style suits you best. There’s a one time payment of 10 $. Beard Style AI.
An interesting 3D interactive visualisation of earth that shows where climate change effects will hit hardest by the end of the century. Mapping Where the Earth Will Become Uninhabitable.
BONUS: Temi is a powerful AI-driven transcription service. You can upload any audio or video file and it will generate a transcript. It costs $0.25 per minute.
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