why highly intelligent people struggle with life
Ro.bert
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A weekly list of goodies curated by Robert.
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🎶 Something to listen to while reading
I’ve been watching some GTA speedrunning videos lately. This made me come back to their radio station music.
GTA San Andreas - Radio Los Santos (Full Radio)
fiery stuff I’ve been ingesting 🔥
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1. Using Windows in the cloud (video)
Introducing a new era of hybrid personal computing: the Windows 365 Cloud PC. Windows 365 takes the operating system to the Microsoft Cloud, securely streaming the full Windows experience—including all your apps, data, and settings—to your personal or corporate devices.
I believe this works best for a particular type of enterprise customer, as it seems to serve one polished config.
2. Netflix is planning an expansion into video games.
3. Apple Watch lead Kevin Lynch shifts focus to car development
Any Apple car is likely still several years away, but the company has continued to hire new talent from companies like BMW to work on it.
4. DeepMind’s AI predicts structures for a vast trove of proteins
AlphaFold has aimed to predict the structure of every protein in humans as well as in 20 model organisms, including those listed here. For some of the proteins, it has provided multiple predictions, which explains why the numbers can be higher than the size of the proteome. In the case of Homo sapiens, the predictions include 98.5% of known proteins.
5. Recognizing People in Photos Through Private On-Device Machine Learning
6. I have received this comment on one of my old YouTube videos called Why Highly Intelligent People Struggle With LIFE which I think is interesting. This is related to the state of gifted people.
Some scientists like Daniel Patón discovered that gifted people have a higher quantity of neandertal genes than average humans. This means that their legacy is more ancient than averages’ legacy, so in other words: gifted aren’t the new mutation, but the averages are… common humans are turned sensorial, emotional, and intellectually dumber as time pass, and it looks this won’t stop. Evolution is going on, as always, but not in the “right” way for most of humanity’s specimens. Damn, they’re so stupid that they even hurt themselves in a direct way and are unable to realize it or wish to change for the better.
I have managed to find the piece he is talking about, as I wanted to have a look, but only found it in Spanish.
7. A little bit on the same face, but I am trying to answer the question but could not find a data-drive answer online for now: What is the average IQ of a magician? What about really good magicians? \ feel free to shoot me an email if you can find a decent paper.
8. I posted something on rats in the last newsletter. Here’s something less scary: In Cambodia, Rats Are Being Trained To Sniff Out Land Mines And Save Lives
9. Generation of ovarian follicles from mouse pluripotent stem cells.
Recent advances have enabled the generation of oocytes from pluripotent stem cells in vitro […] This system enables an alternative method for mouse gamete production and advances our understanding of mammalian reproduction and development.
10. Facebook’s CEO on why the social network is becoming ‘a metaverse company’
The metaverse is having a moment. Coined in Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson’s 1992 sci-fi novel, the term refers to a convergence of physical, augmented, and virtual reality in a shared online space.
Misc worth mentioning 🔥
A browser extension for your new mind
A stabilized video of a hawk hovering
TextSniper - extract text from images and other digital documents; If you do not want to pay, feel free to use Google Keep’s grab text functionality
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Visual Theory
Here’s the evolution of one of my side projects — Visual Theory. I am re-learning how to see.
➜ You can follow the project on 🐦 Twitter & 📷 Instagram
Thank you for reading!
How’re you and yours doing this week? Any major changes to your status quo, or are things fairly locked-in and predictable at the moment? I respond to every email I get—consider sending me a message and telling me a bit about yourself and what’s been up in your world.
— Robert