fw: annotate anything & learn how to speak
Ro.bert
here’s your weekly dose of treats 💌
a weekly list of goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
fiery stuff I've been ingesting
How to speak: the talk is intended to improve your speaking ability in critical situations by teaching you a few heuristic rules.
Old person smell
How to annotate literally everything: comprehensive overview of existing tools, strategies and thoughts on interacting with your data
Paper from New Kite Data Labs (presenting clear empirical examples and case studies of how China is changing the role of private enterprise and using the openness of liberal democracies against itself) — Data as a National Security Imperative: Chinese Data Management Practices and The Relevance to Subsidiaries In Liberal Democracies
NVIDIA’s New AI grows objects out of nothing
Is Gato the future of AI?
Unhappy for years, until I switched to working 3 days a week
Cows in Turkey enjoy VR headsets; owner reports they are more relaxed, milk yield increased
The future of concert visuals
Romanian Maths Olympiad is Wild
Discord: The Most Evil Business In The World
tweets for thought
war materials 🇺🇦
Where once the main sources of wealth were material assets such as gold mines, wheat fields and oil wells, today the main source of wealth is knowledge. And whereas you can seize oil fields by force, you cannot acquire knowledge that way. The profitability of conquest has declined as a result.
Hackers created a robocaller to waste Russian officials time and you can listen in on the calls
I found a YouTube channel containing interviews with Russian soldiers calling their relatives and getting into debates.
a YouTube channel does interviews with captured Russian soliders
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Disclaimer: There is no such thing as unbiased news. You can call it “less biased news”. There are numerous other biases that can influence news reporting too.
Overt political bias is probably the least concerning aspect of a democracy because it is simple to identify and weigh.
The more concerning biases in news reporting today are those that are more subtle, such as financial incentives and self-censorship of topics. Many topics are simply not covered, and the mainstream media does not question why.
YouTube archives
The Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload by Daniel Levitin
Other places
(͡ ͡° ͜ つ ͡͡°) Telegram group for me to save & share random stuff that might be useful —
👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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