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Here's your weekly dose of the Knowledge Bottle Newsletter.
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The Day You Became A Better Writer
Teaser: Readers comprehend “the boy hit the ball” quicker than “the ball was hit by the boy.”
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How I got into MIT by Skipping Classes (and why school sucks)
This kid is one of the best competitive programmers in the world. And he is only 18.
He got into MIT by skipping classes as he saw that school is nowadays a broken system.
Point of View I enjoyed:
I am about to graduate from high school, so I decided to give my thoughts about this system. High school classes are a waste of time since most of the content will be forgotten and never used again. By putting only minimal effort into schoolwork, I managed to make much more out of my time. I encourage other students to find their own goal as well.
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Future generations deserve good ancestors. Will you be one?
The way that living organisms have evolved to survive over the long term is to take care of the place that will take care of their offspring. In other words, to live within the biophysical limits of their environment.
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Chrome extension I enjoyed
nuTab
The most productive new tab page. nuTab is the place for notes, drafts, and todos where you won't ever forget them. It's a browser extension that replaces your new tab page with a flexible text editor. I am still using a tool called Papier - but IDK why this is not available on the store anymore.
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We Have Already Let The Genie Out of The Bottle - A.I .News
There is an urgent need for internationally shared rules governing autonomous weapons and the use of facial recognition to target minorities and suppress dissent. Eliminating bias in algorithms for criminal sentencing, credit allocation, social media curation and many other areas should be an essential focus for both research and the spread of best practices.
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The Math of Social Distancing Is a Lesson in Geometry
If each person must keep six feet away from everyone else, then figuring out how many people can sit in a classroom or a dining room is a question about packing non-overlapping circles into floor plans.
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Ancient Babylonian Astronomers
They Calculated Jupiter’s position from the area under a time-velocity graph 1500 years before Isaac Newton
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The best investors tend to be antisocial and contrarian.
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