🙈 Useless Fact of the Day
The number "four" is considered unlucky in Japan because it is pronounced the same as "death".
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🌕 On February 20, 1965...
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The NASA spacecraft Ranger 8 spacecraft transmitted 7,137 photographs of the Moon in the final 23 minutes of its mission before crashing as planned into Mare Tranquillitatis.
Read more on Wikipedia
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Michael Pollan describes joining psychologist Russell Hurlburt’s beeper study, revealing how little we truly grasp our own thoughts. Introspective “snapshots” show consciousness as fleeting, mostly banal, often preverbal, and hard to report without distortion, challenging dominant scientific theories of the mind.
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AI models like ChatGPT, Claude, and Gemini generate passwords that *look* strong but follow predictable patterns, making them easy to crack and far lower in entropy than true random passwords. Researchers say LLMs should never be used for password generation.
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The $399 Rubik’s WOWCube is a tech-heavy, 2×2 smart cube with 24 IPS screens, games, widgets, and app connectivity. It offers creative gameplay and utilities but is pricier, simpler as a puzzle, less intuitive, and less reliable than a classic Rubik’s Cube.
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AI demand has caused DRAM prices to skyrocket, creating a global RAM shortage. Phones, laptops, consoles, and handhelds will get pricier, rarer, or weaker through at least 2028 as the three dominant memory makers prioritize AI and raise costs.
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💪 Jeff Dean Fact of the Day
Jeff Dean can beat you at connect four. In three moves.
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⭐ 7008, 🖖 421
A Beautiful Private and Secure Desktop Investment Tracking Application
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⭐ 2562, 🖖 368
A framework for efficient model inference with omni-modality models
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⭐ 3440, 🖖 230
List for blocking ads in the Chinese region
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⭐ 2075, 🖖 156
A protocol for connecting any editor to any agent
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⭐ 16674, 🖖 1365
screenpipe turns your computer into a personal AI that knows everything you've done. record. search. automate. all local, all private, all yours.
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