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AI, Machine Learning, Deep Learning and Foundation Models Explained
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #178
IBM Technology's Jeff Crume explains how artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and foundation models differ.
Summary
IBM Technology's Jeff Crume explains how artificial intelligence, machine learning, deep learning and foundation models differ. The 2024 video traces how these fields developed and covers recent generative AI advances, including large language models, chatbots and deepfakes. It aims to clear up common misconceptions and shows how these technologies affect various fields.
Genially: Interactive Presentations and Learning Content
Tool · genially.com · Issue #177
Genially is a no-code web tool for making interactive content such as presentations, infographics, quizzes, games and escape rooms.
Summary
Genially is a no-code web tool for making interactive content such as presentations, infographics, quizzes, games and escape rooms. It offers an AI builder that creates content from a prompt, real-time co-editing, brand kits, live polls and analytics, plus thousands of templates. The site promotes it for education, business and marketing, and cites over 130 million creations. Sign-up is advertised as free to start, with paid plans listed separately.
DyslexicU: University of Dyslexic Thinking
Tool · madebydyslexia.org · Issue #170
DyslexicU, the University of Dyslexic Thinking, is a course run with The Open University and Made by Dyslexia.
Summary
DyslexicU, the University of Dyslexic Thinking, is a course run with The Open University and Made by Dyslexia. It argues that dyslexic thinking suits an AI-driven world, citing the Intelligence 5.0 report, which names lateral thinking, complex problem-solving and interpersonal skills as the most sought-after human skills. Dyslexic people are encouraged to promote their thinking style, and others are invited to build the same skills.
Anagrams.io: Anagram Sentence Generator
Tool · anagrams.io · Issue #168
Anagrams.io is a free online tool for creating anagram sentences instantly, in English, German, French and Spanish.
Summary
Anagrams.io is a free online tool for creating anagram sentences instantly, in English, German, French and Spanish. Its keywords point to related features for solving, scrambling and shuffling anagrams.
Pictures are remembered better than names
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #167
Researchers found people remember pictures much better than their names
Summary
People recall pictures better than names, so simple visuals communicate better than bulleted lists.
The speaker describes the picture superiority effect: people recall pictures of objects better than their names. In a later study at NYU, simple black-and-white line drawings were remembered better than complicated ones. The speaker argues that communication should be simple and visual rather than built from bulleted lists and dense slides.
Key points- Researchers found people remember pictures much better than their names
- NYU researchers found simple black and white line drawings beat complicated ones
- The speaker says the best communication is simple and visual, not bulleted
How Polish sounds to foreigners
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #166
A short TikTok on how the Polish language sounds to foreigners.
Summary
A short TikTok on how the Polish language sounds to foreigners.
Unriddle (Anara): AI Research Workspace
Tool · unriddle.ai · Issue #165
Anara is an AI research workspace reached through this link.
Summary
Anara is an AI research workspace reached through this link. It searches over 300 million papers and the web, answers questions across your own files, and drafts writing with citations that link to the exact passage in each source. It also extracts data from papers into tables and exports to Word, LaTeX and BibTeX. It is aimed at researchers, students and professionals who work with scientific literature.
The Expert Myth
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #164
Veritasium's video asks which experts have real expertise.
Summary
Veritasium's video asks which experts have real expertise. Its description cites academic research on chess perception, clinical versus statistical prediction, deliberate practice and decision-making, and includes a clip of chess player Magnus.
GeoQuiz: Guess the Country
Tool · thennal10.github.io · Issue #160
GeoQuiz is a web-based geography game where you guess the location of countries on a map.
Summary
GeoQuiz is a web-based geography game where you guess the location of countries on a map. Countries come from the ISO 3166 list with dependent territories removed. Each guess is scored by its distance from the real country, with the score decaying exponentially, and scoring is more lenient for regions such as Europe than for Africa.
Neil deGrasse Tyson Responds to Terrence Howard
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #159
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to comments by Terrence Howard, sharing parts of Howard's treatise.
Summary
Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson responds to comments by Terrence Howard, sharing parts of Howard's treatise. The StarTalk video covers the Dunning-Kruger effect, a breakdown of the treatise, and how science handles new ideas.
PhET Interactive Simulations
Tool · phet.colorado.edu · Issue #159
PhET is a free online collection of interactive simulations in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math, built by the University of Colorado.
Summary
PhET is a free online collection of interactive simulations in physics, chemistry, biology, earth science and math, built by the University of Colorado. The project is supported by the Moore, National Science Foundation and Hewlett foundations.
Experts vs Imitators
Read · fs.blog · 2 min · Issue #157
Shane Parrish argues that many people who claim expertise lack it, so real experts need to be told apart from imitators.
Summary
Shane Parrish argues that many people who claim expertise lack it, so real experts need to be told apart from imitators. He cites Charlie Munger on money managers who copy Warren Buffett's talking points. The article lists five signs of an imitator: they struggle with first-principles questions, hide behind jargon, resist simple explanations, avoid admitting mistakes, and ignore the limits of their knowledge.
LibriVox: Free Public Domain Audiobooks
Tool · librivox.org · Issue #155
LibriVox is a volunteer-run project that records free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world.
Summary
LibriVox is a volunteer-run project that records free public domain audiobooks read by volunteers from around the world. Its catalog holds more than 21,800 works, including over 2,700 non-English titles in 49 languages, searchable by author, title, genre or language. Anyone can listen or download for free, and volunteers can sign up to read.
Photoskop: Interactive Photography Lessons
Tool · photoskop.com · Issue #155
Photoskop is a free, interactive site for learning photography.
Summary
Photoskop is a free, interactive site for learning photography. Users control a camera, studio lights and objects in a scene. Lessons cover mobile photography, lighting techniques, and portraits and posing, plus an encyclopedia of poses. Camera basics such as exposure, depth of field and lenses are listed as coming soon. The project is funded by voluntary donations.
White Holes and Wormholes Are Probably Real
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #153
Veritasium's video argues that white holes and wormholes probably exist.
Summary
Veritasium's video argues that white holes and wormholes probably exist. It credits several physicists for their help and cites sources including Kip Thorne's Black Holes & Time Warps and Einstein's 1915 field equations paper. The video was published in April 2024 and is free to watch.
Give memories personal relevance to remember
Short · youtu.be · Issue #153
Most of what we see is not worth remembering to the brain
Summary
To remember something, give it personal relevance, since the brain is constantly trying to forget most of what it sees.
The speaker says the brain constantly tries to forget most of what it encounters, so to remember something you have to establish why it is relevant. Saying why something matters gives it meaning and makes it stick.
Key points- Most of what we see is not worth remembering to the brain
- Say why the information is relevant to you to make it stick
- Without established relevance, the brain drops the information
How Long to Read
Tool · howlongtoread.com · Issue #152
How Long to Read estimates how long a book takes to read or to listen to as an audiobook.
Summary
How Long to Read estimates how long a book takes to read or to listen to as an audiobook. You can search millions of books by title or author, with estimates adjusted to your reading speed.
Vary your speaking rate to hold listeners
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #151
A rate that starts engaging turns unengaging once it becomes your default
Summary
Vary your speaking rate, since a steady delivery becomes a predictable pattern that listeners tune out.
The speaker argues that a steady speaking pace becomes boring because the brain predicts the pattern and stops listening. Speed up on less important points to show enthusiasm, and slow down when explaining something new or important. The rule of thumb is to go quickly over minor points and slow down for the key ones.
Key points- A rate that starts engaging turns unengaging once it becomes your default
- The brain predicts patterns and stops listening once it can guess what comes next
- Speed up to show passion and enthusiasm, the speaker says
What Type of Brain Do You Have?
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #148
Mike and Matty argue that knowing your brain type helps you find a study style that suits you, since generic study tips give generic results.
Summary
Mike and Matty argue that knowing your brain type helps you find a study style that suits you, since generic study tips give generic results. Matty says his grades got worse when he tried his brother's methods. The video links to a three-minute brain type quiz, and a paid study course is also promoted.
Codedex
Tool · codedex.io · Issue #147
Codedex is a coding education platform for kids and adults.
Summary
Codedex is a coding education platform for kids and adults. It offers a fantasy-themed learning route through Python, HTML, CSS or JavaScript. Learners earn experience points to unlock new regions and collect badges at their own pace.
What's This Cloud
Tool · whatsthiscloud.com · Issue #146
What's This Cloud is an educational site for learning to identify and classify clouds, aimed at students, teachers, pilots and skywatchers.
Summary
What's This Cloud is an educational site for learning to identify and classify clouds, aimed at students, teachers, pilots and skywatchers. It offers 126 illustrations, real photographs, guides to the ten main cloud types, a printable chart, step-by-step lessons and flashcards. A 136-page ebook on the ten cloud types is offered free, and posters are sold in the shop. Foxhaven Media publishes the site.
PDF2Anki (now Memo)
Tool · pdf2-anki.com · Issue #141
PDF2Anki now redirects to Memo, an AI study workspace.
Summary
PDF2Anki now redirects to Memo, an AI study workspace. Users upload PDFs, videos, websites or text, then get flashcards, notes, practice tests and summaries, with answers cited to specific pages or timestamps. A free forever plan is offered, with paid tiers above it. Memo was built by two medical students.
Explorer Globe
Tool · explorer.globe.engineer · Issue #141
Explorer Globe turns a search phrase into a graphic breakdown of the topic, moving from a general overview down to specific detail.
Summary
Explorer Globe turns a search phrase into a graphic breakdown of the topic, moving from a general overview down to specific detail. The author, who prefers visual information, uses it for research, with a large language model as the example.
Why Top Fighters Stopped Sparring
Watch · youtube.com · Issue #138
Jesse Enkamp, known as The Karate Nerd, argues that top fighters have stopped sparring and explains what they do instead.
Summary
Jesse Enkamp, known as The Karate Nerd, argues that top fighters have stopped sparring and explains what they do instead. The approach is said to maximize learning while minimizing injury, citing research on dopamine and learning, stress hormones and brain trauma in boxing.
KeyCombiner: Learn Keyboard Shortcuts
Tool · keycombiner.com · Issue #134
KeyCombiner is a web app for learning and practicing keyboard shortcuts.
Summary
KeyCombiner is a web app for learning and practicing keyboard shortcuts. Users can import shortcut collections from a public database covering VSCode, Vim, Gmail, Notion and Excel, then practice them with spaced-repetition flashcards that track errors and timing. A companion desktop app looks up shortcuts for the active application. It reports over 8,500 users.
Keep your accent and copy monologues aloud
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #133
Speaking with an accent is beautiful and shows you speak more than one language
Summary
Keep your accent, and copy a famous speaker's short monologue aloud to improve your English.
A non-native English speaker recommends choosing a speaker you admire, writing down one to two minutes of their speech and repeating it aloud along with the recording. The aim is to match their rhythm, melody and pauses rather than memorize every word. The speaker says the method also builds vocabulary, since unfamiliar phrases can be looked up as they come up.
Key points- Speaking with an accent is beautiful and shows you speak more than one language
- Write down one to two minutes of a speaker's monologue, such as a famous actress
- Repeat the monologue aloud, trying to match how they sound
Review new learning on days 1, 3, 6
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #131
Research shows meaningless information fades within about three days
Summary
Review newly learned material on days 1, 3 and 6, since the speaker says the brain drops meaningless information within three days.
The speaker says that research shows meaningless information is often forgotten within about three days, and that the problem has been confirmed in more recent studies. To retain something long term, the speaker recommends reviewing it on day 1, again on day 3 and again on day 6 after first learning it.
Key points- Research shows meaningless information fades within about three days
- Review it on Day 1, again on Day 3, and again on Day 6
- The speaker calls this the magic memorization formula
Your working vocabulary is smaller than you think
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #129
Name as many words as you can starting with one letter in one minute
Summary
Your everyday vocabulary is smaller than what you recognise, so practise quick word retrieval to speak more fluently.
The speaker separates the words you can retrieve quickly in speech (surface lexicon) from words you recognize but cannot easily recall (deep lexicon). The suggested exercise is the Controlled Oral Word Association Test: name as many distinct words as possible starting with one letter in a minute, with no names or near-duplicates. Over 18 words is a good score, and reading, podcasts and good speakers help build vocabulary.
Key points- Name as many words as you can starting with one letter in one minute
- Rules: no names, and no near-duplicates like run and running
- The speaker says over 18 words is good, and reading and podcasts build input
roadmap.sh
Tool · roadmap.sh · Issue #126
roadmap.sh is a community-built learning site for developers.
Summary
roadmap.sh is a community-built learning site for developers. It offers role-based roadmaps such as Frontend, Backend, DevOps and AI Engineer, plus skill roadmaps for topics like Python, React and SQL. It also includes best-practice guides, short lesson packs, interview question sets and an AI Tutor. The project is credited to the handle @nilbuild, and visitors are invited to register and join the community.
Adding melody to speech makes you memorable
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #125
A 300-word page is hard to recite, while a 300-word song is easy
Summary
Songs are easier to memorise than pages of text, so adding melody to your voice makes you more influential.
The speaker asks viewers to compare reciting a page from a favorite book with reciting a favorite song. Both have roughly 300 words, but the song is far easier to recall because of melody. The speaker argues that influence requires being memorable, and that adding melody to your voice helps.
Key points- A 300-word page is hard to recite, while a 300-word song is easy
- Says influence depends on being memorable, and memorability comes from melody
- Recommends adding more melody to your voice as a leader
Logarithms turn multiplication into addition
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #124
Example: 2 times 4 maps to 1 plus 2, which maps back to 8
Summary
Logarithms turn multiplication into addition, and Henry Briggs' 400-year-old tables made calculations easy.
The video explains the logarithm as a curve that turns multiplication on one axis into addition on the other. Using base-2 values, 2 maps to 1, 4 to 2 and 8 to 3, so 2 times 4 becomes 1 plus 2. The speaker says the same works at high precision, and mentions a mathematician who used it about 400 years ago.
Key points- Example: 2 times 4 maps to 1 plus 2, which maps back to 8
- A quarter times 8 becomes minus 2 plus 3, which maps back to 2
- Briggs published a 400-page book of values computed to 14 decimal places
Learn web vulnerabilities and earn legal bounties
Short · youtube.com · Issue #124
Start with the site the speaker names as oas.org to learn web vulnerabilities
Summary
The speaker recommends learning web vulnerabilities, then earning money through legal HackerOne bounty programs.
The speaker recommends learning web vulnerabilities from a website given in the transcript as oas.org, likely OWASP, then joining HackerOne to take part in bug bounty programs. The speaker says bounty programs let you legally search company systems for vulnerabilities within scope, report them, and earn money and recognition.
Key points- Start with the site the speaker names as oas.org to learn web vulnerabilities
- Create a HackerOne account to join bounty programs legally
- Stay in scope and report vulnerabilities to earn credit and money
ExamTopics: Free IT Certification Practice Questions
Tool · examtopics.com · Issue #121
ExamTopics is a free website of practice questions and answers for IT certification exams, including CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft and Linux.
Summary
ExamTopics is a free website of practice questions and answers for IT certification exams, including CompTIA, Cisco, Microsoft and Linux. The site says it has built its library since 2014, adds updates daily and is maintained by six IT professionals, with material from community contributors. It states it is not affiliated with any certification provider, and claims users are guaranteed to pass.
VisuAlgo: Visual Guide to Algorithms and Data Structures
Tool · visualgo.net · Issue #120
VisuAlgo is a free web platform by the National University of Singapore that teaches data structures and algorithms through animated visualizations.
Summary
VisuAlgo is a free web platform by the National University of Singapore that teaches data structures and algorithms through animated visualizations. It has 24 modules, each with an auto-graded quiz whose questions are randomly generated. Associate Professor Steven Halim conceived it in 2011, and the site says it is offered at no cost to the global computer science community.
Littler Books: Summaries of Popular Nonfiction
Tool · littlerbooks.com · Issue #119
Littler Books publishes bullet-point summaries of popular nonfiction and self-help books, with a catalog of 216 titles including Atomic Habits, Sapiens and Thinking, Fast and Slow.
Summary
Littler Books publishes bullet-point summaries of popular nonfiction and self-help books, with a catalog of 216 titles including Atomic Habits, Sapiens and Thinking, Fast and Slow. The summaries are free to read, written and edited by humans, and new ones appear weekly. A subscription adds a Master Collection and downloads in PDF, eBook and DOCX formats. The site earns affiliate income from Amazon purchases.
PrettyPolly: Practice Speaking a Language With AI
Tool · prettypolly.app · Issue #118
PrettyPolly is an AI conversation partner for practicing speaking from the first day of language study, with 36 languages available.
Summary
PrettyPolly is an AI conversation partner for practicing speaking from the first day of language study, with 36 languages available. Its creator, Chris W, built it after struggling to speak French despite years of school lessons, and argues that regular conversation with native speakers matters most. The page cites more than 9,000 users in the last three months.
Ancient Greece in 18 Minutes
Watch · youtube.com · 18 min · Issue #117
An English-language crash course on ancient Greece from the Russian channel Arzamas, narrated by Brian Cox.
Summary
An English-language crash course on ancient Greece from the Russian channel Arzamas, narrated by Brian Cox. In about 18 minutes it covers Homer, the Minotaur, the 300 Spartans, Greek theatre, the Parthenon and democracy. The video is an English version of an earlier Arzamas video, published in May 2017.
Five Thinking Tools From Education to Sharpen Learning
Read · nesslabs.com · 5 min · Issue #113
Anne-Laure Le Cunff's January 2021 Ness Labs article presents five thinking tools borrowed from education to build metacognition.
Summary
Anne-Laure Le Cunff's January 2021 Ness Labs article presents five thinking tools borrowed from education to build metacognition. They are Bloom's taxonomy, the DOVE and ROPE brainstorming rules, the CAMPER questions for evaluating information, the Five Whys for finding root causes and Think-Pair-Share, which moves from solo reflection to pairs to group discussion.
Mind Gardening: Growing Ideas From Your Notes
Read · refinery29.com · 5 min · Issue #111
An interview with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, CEO of Ness Labs, about mind gardening, a way to cultivate ideas instead of passively consuming content.
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An interview with Anne-Laure Le Cunff, CEO of Ness Labs, about mind gardening, a way to cultivate ideas instead of passively consuming content. She describes treating a thought as a seed, noting it down and looking for connections between notes that branch into new ideas. She links the practice to the generation effect, the finding that creating your own version of information aids memory.
How to Listen to Classical Music With an Open Mind
Read · psyche.co · 10 min · Issue #106
Musicologist Lawrence Kramer's Psyche guide argues that classical music rewards listening for its emotional, intellectual and aesthetic value, with no training required.
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Musicologist Lawrence Kramer's Psyche guide argues that classical music rewards listening for its emotional, intellectual and aesthetic value, with no training required. He suggests picking an 'angle of hearing' such as a melody, timbre or story to focus attention. Other tips include comparing different recordings of the same piece and attending live concerts.
Fold 'N Fly: Paper Airplane Designs and Instructions
Tool · foldnfly.com · Issue #103
Fold 'N Fly is a database of 58 paper airplane designs, each with folding instructions, and many with video guides and printable templates.
Summary
Fold 'N Fly is a database of 58 paper airplane designs, each with folding instructions, and many with video guides and printable templates. Designs can be filtered by type, difficulty and whether scissors are needed. The site also has lesson plans, science experiments and a design section, plus a paid membership for printable plans.
Ten Great Books on How to Learn Better
Read · scotthyoung.com · 4 min · Issue #102
Scott H.
Summary
Scott H. Young's May 2023 list of ten books on learning, chosen for being approachable and actionable. Picks include Make It Stick, How We Learn by Stanislas Dehaene and A Mind for Numbers by Barbara Oakley. Young argues that learning is a skill improved by cognitive science, citing strategies such as retrieval practice, spacing and interleaving.
TIME's A to Z Glossary of Artificial Intelligence
Read · time.com · 10 min · Issue #101
A free glossary by TIME correspondent Billy Perrigo, first published in April 2023, that explains AI terms from AGI and alignment to hallucination and scaling laws.
Summary
A free glossary by TIME correspondent Billy Perrigo, first published in April 2023, that explains AI terms from AGI and alignment to hallucination and scaling laws. It cites a 2023 OpenAI paper estimating that nearly a fifth of US workers could have over half their tasks automated by a language model. It also reports a 2022 survey of 738 AI researchers who put the average chance of human extinction from advanced AI at 10%.
Daily Deductions
Tool · dailydeductions.com · Issue #100
Daily Deductions is a website that publishes a new set of logic puzzles every day.
Summary
Daily Deductions is a website that publishes a new set of logic puzzles every day.
Play boss fights in short bursts, then sleep
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #98
Players usually do better on the first boss fight than on later tries
Summary
Study tactics apply to games: play a boss for 20 to 40 minutes, then rest and sleep so learning consolidates.
Dr. K, a psychologist, applies learning research to video games. He notes that players often do well on a boss's first attempt and worse afterwards, then recommends short 20 to 40 minute sessions with breaks, since sleep consolidates short-term learning into long-term memory. The speaker says this approach helped them beat a boss in Elden Ring within four or five days of half-hour mornings.
Key points- Players usually do better on the first boss fight than on later tries
- Short sessions let learning consolidate into long-term memory during sleep
- The speaker beat a boss in four or five days with half-hour morning sessions
MERLOT: Free Teaching and Learning Resources
Tool · merlot.org · Issue #97
MERLOT is an online platform of curated learning materials, exercises and tools, run as a community of educators, learners and researchers.
Summary
MERLOT is an online platform of curated learning materials, exercises and tools, run as a community of educators, learners and researchers. It lists about 110,428 resources by discipline, along with peer reviews, a Content Builder for multi-page websites and a way for members to submit their own materials. The page says joining, creating and submitting materials are free.
Practise speaking by timing words to steps
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #95
The drill repeats one sentence with a stepping cue, like pressing a play button
Summary
Practise delivery by timing each word to a small step or movement, using one sentence repeated with a cue.
The video shows a speech coaching exercise in which a speaker repeats one sentence about growing up in Memphis, Tennessee, while adding gestures. The coach recommends a play-button step to time movement with words. A fixed stare and mistimed movements look awkward, while timed movement makes the delivery more convincing.
Key points- The drill repeats one sentence with a stepping cue, like pressing a play button
- The coach points out the thousand-yard stare and a need to look at the audience
- Each word is timed to a movement, since small details are what need mastering
10 Philosophical Concepts You Should Know
Read · thecollector.com · 15 min · Issue #88
A TheCollector article by Viktoriya Sus, who holds an MA in philosophy, introduces ten concepts.
Summary
A TheCollector article by Viktoriya Sus, who holds an MA in philosophy, introduces ten concepts. They range from Plato's Theory of Ideas and Descartes' cogito to Kant's categorical imperative, Nietzsche's God is dead and existential crisis. Each gets a short, plain explanation of its core idea, aimed at readers without formal philosophy training.
Talbica
Tool · talbica.com · Issue #87
Talbica 3 is a chemistry web tool and iOS app.
Summary
Talbica 3 is a chemistry web tool and iOS app. Its periodic table shows element properties such as atomic mass, melting and boiling points and density. It also balances chemical equations, solves reactions and includes a chemistry calculator. The page targets students and lab workers.
Delivery can make empty talks sound brilliant
Short · tiktok.com · Issue #84
Says tone and pacing can make nothing sound like meaningful content
Summary
Vocal delivery and manner can make an empty talk sound brilliant, the speaker demonstrates with a mock talk.
The video uses a TED-style talk to show how vocal intonation, pacing, gestures and a personal anecdote can make a speaker sound convincing even when the content is thin. The speaker says he is buying time and building an apparent argument. The clip is presented as a lesson in presentation technique.
Key points- Says tone and pacing can make nothing sound like meaningful content
- Uses an embarrassing anecdote to break tension, then turns to a broader point
- Pacing, gesturing and changing tone create the sense of building to a moment
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