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Will Bachman retweeted
“A medical practice in England intended to text its patients wishes for a ‘very merry Christmas.’ Instead, the mass text told patients they had ‘aggressive lung cancer’ that had spread and asked them to fill out a form for terminal patients.” 😳 cbsnews.com/news/askern-medi…
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3D artist Jigar Patel (@jigpx) makes mesmerizing computer graphic animations. He created a series of brilliant clips called “Logo Factory”, and it's quite hard to stop looking at them
TikTok: tiktok.com/@jigpx
Instagram: instagram.com/jigpx/
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Or we’ll keep seeing lines as crooked that are - in fact - entirely straight - depending on the arrangement of black tiles between them.
Will Bachman retweeted
My wife just said we don’t have enough candles for the rest of Hanukkah and I said that this is a teachable moment and she wasn’t amused.
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9. Excelformulabot.com
Convert text instructions into Excel formulae.
Forgotten an Excel formula? Simply tell ExcelFormulaBot in plain language what you want to do, and it will tell you the formula to do it.
h/t: @bresslertweets
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10. Tinywow.com/
Modify any media.
TinyWow is an online toolbox that lets you do hundreds of things with your files, such as editing PDFs, converting videos to GIFs, and removing backgrounds from pictures.
Will Bachman retweeted
With ambition, you tend to get one step below what you aim for. So unless you try to be the best, you won't even be good.
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Hey everyone -- in celebration of the holidays, I spoke with my friends @five_books about my favorite economic history books of 2022.
Take a look, and maybe get something nice for the economic historian in the family.
fivebooks.com/best-books/bes…
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Storytelling hack:
Mine your life for essential moments
• Make a grid with 5 columns
• Row 1: Job, Date, Workout, Trip
• Column 1: First, Best, Last, Worst
Fill in the intersections.
e.g. First Job—fry cook at a rib restaurant
Peek under the surface. This is your story.
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This clip by Gelmini Macchine shows a Parmesan cheese cutting line at work
[full video: buff.ly/3H1MOUI]
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I saw this story trending last year and set a calendar reminder to read it again around the holidays.
This just hits different…
Will Bachman retweeted
Today I asked ChatGPT about the topic I wrote my PhD about. It produced reasonably sounding explanations and reasonably looking citations. So far so good – until I fact-checked the citations. And things got spooky when I asked about a physical phenomenon that doesn’t exist.
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Apple’s original iPod shipped in November of 2011 just 290 days after Tony Fadell was hired to create it in January of that year.
A surprising number of other well-known projects were accomplished in an incredibly short amount of time.
Here are some of my favorites:
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I know everyone is tired of ChatGPT output, but I found an interesting use case:
Translate post-modern academic writing into something you can read.
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This mini-tug was built by Chuck’s Boat and Drive out of Longview Washington and used by the U.S. Navy to move ships and submarines. It's the smallest active-duty vessel of the United States Navy
[source, read more: buff.ly/3jaB0TS]
