fw: the banality of Genius🫀
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
A London Accent from the 14th to the 21st Centuries + reconstruction of naturalistic conversation from 1960s Sothern England
Tibetan artist who has been creating colorful thangka paintings of Buddha and Buddhist deities for over 20 years.
Linus says that using Adblock is piracy. Is he correct?
Tesla model Pi?
Transistors - the invention that changed the world
On the night of April 14, 1912, Titanic met her fate and sank creating one of the most infamous tragedies in history - turns out you can now watch a simulation —> RMS Titanic Real-Time Sinking Remastered. One can also watch interviews with some survivors.
Are solid objects really solid?
ComplexCon lol
For millennia, people slept in two shifts
Living on 24 hours a day
Your circle of competence: should you stick within it or step outside of it?
LibreTexts - most popular online textbook platform
5 devs make a game without communicating
What if you could surf the web on an infinite canvas? Here’s where spacial web browsing kicks in.
Sharks attacking the internet
The tool-box killers. Also - Who was the most intellectual/skilled serial killer in history?
Tech questions for 2022: games, crypto, AR, VR, metaverse, regulation, privacy, cars, China & more.
New neuronal connections are being made in time-lapse video.
The Banality of Genius: Notes on Peter Jackson’s Get Back
The Ergodic Switch - when to use information about a group to draw conclusion about individual members of the group.
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latest YouTube video
How to “Google It” like a Content Creator (Fundamentals)
How to "Google It" like a Content Creator (Fundamentals)
“The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.”
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— Robert
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