“Putting massive amounts of time in perspective is incredibly hard for humans, so we made this graphic.”
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Abt. »Fehlende Fehlschlüsse«.
reductio ad teutonum (lat.): Wenn dir ein Mensch aus Österreich in einer Diskussion erklärt, du würdest nur auf diese Weise argumentieren, weil du aus Deutschland kommst.
Interesting tool for academic lectures, too.
Qandr – Get real time feedback from your audience during a presentation, event or business meeting by pushing interactive elements to their smartphones. (Via modul.ac.at.)
El musico mas loco del mundo.
AFAIK Vurro’s Boogie is going viral right now.
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TED talks are great, but…
Top 10 Smart Alternatives to TED Talks.
Is the head of Y Combinator fixing the world, or trying to take over Silicon Valley?
Sam Altman’s Manifest Destiny.
Y Combinator has even begun using an A.I. bot, Hal9000, to help it sift admission applications: the bot’s neural net trains itself by assessing previous applications and those companies’ outcomes. “What’s it looking for?” I asked Altman. “I have no idea,” he replied. “That’s the unsettling thing about neural networks—you have no idea what they’re doing, and they can’t tell you.”
The Hunt For Alien Life: Meet the Aquatic Worlds of Our Solar System.
Nine other worlds in our Solar System contain water in some form. The common presence of water in our immediate cosmic neighborhood suggests there may be life elsewhere in the Solar System.
What will we do when neuroimaging allows us to reconstruct dreams and memories?
Money, murder, and sadomasochism: A journey into the hidden world of Silicon Beach and the Los Angeles tech world.