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Why Life Will Always Be Good
Life is good just for life itself and not necessarily for you.Google Maps. Google is now feeding satellite data much more directly back into its mapping products. Machine learning, of course.
A typo created a 212-story monolith in ‘Microsoft Flight Simulator’.
Amazon doesn’t care about losing money on delivery if it keeps customers happy.
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@RoamResearch
Using machine learning to generate photo-realistic (ish) images of Roman emperors from their statues and coins. Full article.
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My three decades alone, in the mountain
There is an abundance of personal narratives by men and women who have ventured alone into an isolated or semi-isolated setting for a specific purpose, for a specific period of time.
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Is Streetwear a Machine That Turns Insecurity Into Money?
In the decade since its launch, much has been said about how Instagram has democratized media, but it simultaneously open-sourced Narcissism that was formerly reserved for a celebrity elite.
How to Turn 175 Years of Words in Scientific American into an Image
Summarizing the history of a 175-year-old magazine—that's 5,107 editions with 199,694 pages containing 110,292,327 words!—into a series of graphics.
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How Many Undetected Frauds in Science?
For those of us buying pseudo-psychology books on how to increase your emotional intelligence by 500% -
0.04% of papers are retracted. At least 1.9% of papers have duplicate images "suggestive of deliberate manipulation". About 2.5% of scientists admit to fraud, and they estimate that 10% of other scientists have committed fraud. 27% of postdocs said they were willing to select or omit data to improve their results. More than 50% of published findings in psychology are false. The ORI, which makes about 13 misconduct findings per year, gives a conservative estimate of over 2000 misconduct incidents per year.
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“The essence of being an emotionally intelligent person is being able to know when an emotion deserves a response and when an emotion deserves to be acknowledged, experienced, and then politely shown the door.” — Mark Manson
“Relying on craft and routine is a lot less sexy than being an artistic genius. But it is an excellent strategy for not going insane. Rather than restricting your freedom, a routine gives you freedom by protecting you from the ups and downs of life and helping you take advantage of your limited time, energy, and talent. The world is crazy. Creative work is hard. Life is short and art is long.” — Austin Kleon
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