To put 2023 into perspective, here's a brief timeline of the entire future in 23 key moments:

We're living in an upside-down era. Regulators detect danger only when a critical mass of citizens has become alarmed. Newsrooms report stories only when the embarrassment of not reporting them becomes unbearable. Universities teach lessons screened by students It won't end well

13 secret websites powered by AI that'll get you massively ahead in 2023 and beyond (don't loose them) :

The best closing scenes in movie history — and why: 1/ Inception Cobb returns home to his fam. But he spins his top. If it falls over, he’s back in the real world. If it keeps spinning, he’s still in a dream. The scene fades to black before we see what happens.

A thread about someone worth celebrating: In 2019, our company, a board game publisher called Underdog Games, made $3 million. In 2020, the pandemic hit. ⬇️

Someone figured out you could use Stable Diffusion (+ControlNet) to adapt QRs into images while still having them work reliably: reddit.com/r/StableDiffus…

National Lab (LBNL) results support LK-99 as a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor. Simulations published 1 hour ago on arxiv support LK-99 as the holy grail of modern material science and applied physics. (arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892) Here's the plain-english

First claimed successful replication of LK-99 Accomplished by a team at the Huazhong University of Science and Technology and posted 30 minutes ago. Why this is evidence: The LK-99 flake slightly levitates for both orientations of the magnetic field, meaning it is not simply a

LK-99 Endgame: What Happens Next & Market Size If LK-99 is a room-temperature ambient-pressure superconductor, there are three distinct possibilities depending on its eventual engineering properties. Here is a straightforward explanation of each scenario and estimated total

This boat collects bycycles from the river in Amsterdam

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We're so used to seeing and hearing about the pyramids that it's easy to forget how strange and extraordinary they really are. So, just to remind you: When woolly mammoths went extinct the Pyramids of Giza were already more than 500 years old. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar are

The book "Agile Games and Simulations" by Dennis Wagner and Marc Bless will soon be available in English! Join our agile translation journey. agilegamesandsimulations.com We appreciate your contributions and feedback on all upcoming increments of the English book.

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion in Kyoto, Japan, was originally built 600 years ago. But it has been burned down and rebuilt twice. So how old is it? And is it still the same building? Here's what Douglas Adams, author of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, said about it:

'Like finding a unicorn' The moment in which researchers react to first-ever photos of the black-naped pheasant-pigeon, a bird lost to science for 140 years [📹 Jordan Boersma]

Would you believe it!❤ We have just found an incredibly well preserved arrow with a shell arrowhead. It looks like it was lost last year, but the arrow is around 3300 years old, from the Early Bronze Age!😮 It doesn't get much better than this😍

A prompt library for experimental use in education: github.com/microsoft/prom… Microsoft* put together a prompt library for GPT-4 for educators, students, & admin using some of our prompts as a basis. Add your own! *We do not take any compensation from them or any other AI company

The sad reality is that most people don't have what it takes to work in tech: Up at 4am. Post a pic of my new Eight Sleep in the group chat for sweet, sweet engagement. Hit the gym. Crush 8 jumping jacks. 35 minute cold plunge. Rip a My First Million episode at 2x speed.

Works like a charm

Last January, I noticed something peculiar in my 2yo’s bedroom that - after a year of obsessive reporting - led me to a profound cosmic revelation about what’s even possible in our universe. A 🧵.