fw: 🫀 What is reality?
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 Spotify Is Changing Our World Forever
Why communism fails
No Evidence of Dehydration with Moderate Daily Coffee Intake: A Counterbalanced Cross-Over Study in a Free-Living Population
Association of Sugar-Sweetened, Artificially Sweetened, and Unsweetened Coffee Consumption With All-Cause and Cause-Specific Mortality
Rules to live (and work) by
San Francisco 1906 (New Version) in Color [60fps, Remastered] w/added sound
Listen to world leaders speak English
LingoDuck: learn languages faster by video chatting with natives for free
blogboard: engineering blogs by top tech companies
With all due respect to experts
Agile is dead! Waterfall is coming back
One hour in the life of an experimental physicist at the Max Planck Institute for Gravitational Physics
A google researcher was put on leave because he apparently believed his AI project had become sentient. Dr Mike Pound discusses.
How I capture ideas really fast
Marc Andreessen on learning to love the humanities. Maybe history nerfed the humanities because they don’t want people to think deeply.
YouTube video essay (from the archives)
Weird desires drive innovation
tweets for thought
El gran Pablo Picasso trabajando en una obra en 1956 https://t.co/rblXGVxfiz
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.
Why are Ukrainian casualty rates so high?
The Team Help Mariupol. Let’s make it together. Kyiv region. Blystavytsya.
The Team Help Mariupol. Let’s make it together. Kyiv region. Blystavytsya.
I Visited ‘New’ Russian McDonald’s
Macron talking to Zelensky during the first days of the war
war stuff
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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.
Other places
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👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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