Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
Follow the white rabbit 🐇
World’s shortest UI / UX design course — a quirky/fun video teaching you some basics.
The Genius of Apple Park Design — (documentary)
The densest city on Earth — (documentary)
Threads is dead one month later
Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation
Smarter robots via Factorio
BMI and personality correlations
The algorithm that blew up Italy’s school system
Understanding the risks of China-made CCTV surveillance cameras
Prefatory remarks on 'Oppenheimer' by Michael Nielsen
“Fascinating,” I said, “so people spend time here just on the off-chance that something will happen, or that they’ll bump into someone interesting?”
“Exactly,” said the student, “paradoxically, people need to actually communicate less with each other to develop more natural friendships over time. With the advent of smartphones, people began to coordinate every meeting, and every detail of their lives. Our technology stifled serendipity.”
Germany’s radioactive boars are a bristly reminder of nuclear fallout
The Economics of the Asteroid Deflection Problem (Dominant Assurance Contracts)
How to ask Facebook's Meta to not train its AI models on some of your personal info
Intelligence killed genius
The cynical genius illusion: exploring and debunking lay beliefs about cynicism and competence
New antifungal therapy for fungal meningitis
Other places
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👾 some YouTube video essays
— Robert
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