“The idea that consciousness is in the brain is so ingrained in our science, in our everyday speech, even in popular culture that it seems almost beyond question. “We just don’t even notice that we are adopting a view that… Read More »Recommended Read: What Plants Are Saying About Us
“what was one of the earliest online food delivery platforms? That would be Talabat, launched by a group of Kuwaiti students in Cairo, in 2004. That’s three years before the iPhone came to market.” https://restofworld.org/2023/rest-vs-west/
“Discoveries almost never arrive as we think they will, as lightning bolt eurekas. They are slow, gradual, communal. Alien life may not be something we ever ‘find’, but instead inch towards, ever closer, like a curve approaching its asymptote. For… Read More »Recommended Read: Alien life might not be something science can ever ‘discover’
Fascinating exploration of tools used throughout history since fingercounting to Apollo missions Snippet “when US forces occupying Japan organised a maths competition between an army private with an electric calculator and a local civil servant with a beaded soroban (Japanese… Read More »Recommended Read: James Vincent · Instrumental Tricks: Prosthetic Brainpower
Making up false stories so you can win an argument must go https://youtu.be/HTMO2ooMLf8?si=uwCfLnCnjPumvP6Z
Great overview of long range communications up to present https://youtu.be/pJU-KYMREbQ?si=Mk4MqFwgul6-idPQ
Amazing. Looking forward to real use cases
Jocko Willnik and Daryll Copper talking about Iraq war and other topics. Lot of interesting perspectives. For example, US estimated 40k loses on their side for Iraq invasion and still went in. Jocko Unraveling #jockoUnraveling https://podcastaddict.com/podcast/jocko-unraveling/2871490 via @PodcastAddict
Valiac sa skrz vyprahnutú ruskú step rýchlosťou 50 kilometrov za hodinu sa poručík Samusenková z Prvej strážnej tankovej armády pozerala skrz mieridlo T-34 tanku na rýchlo sa blížiacu mohutnú formáciu nepriateľských Panzerov, pričom si zachovala chladnú hlavu počas toho, ako… Read More »Aleksandra Samusenková – Jediná tanková veliteľka v histórii
Well, this explains why most modern rap sucks balls