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Too many hosts, too much talk about ChatGPT. Chaos.
Cycling is the most sustainable form of transportation, but the bicycle is becoming increasingly damaging to the environment. The energy and material used for its production go up while its life expectancy decreases.
- The Apollo 11 surface checklist
- Warren Buffett’s “Investment Criteria Checklist”
- This grocery list
- Rules of Civility & Decent Behavior in Company and Conversation
- Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs
- The U.S. Declaration of Independence list of grievances
- The Fibonacci Sequence
- Santa’s List!
The following pictures show n unit squares packed inside the smallest known square (of side length s). For the n not pictured, the trivial packing (with no tilted squares) is the best known packing.
What all the soups had in common, and what piqued Grub’s curiosity, was that they had all been made from the same soup base, which Pickowicz had been continuously cooking and feeding with new ingredients. She calls it her “Soup Mother.” As a technique, the idea of a never-ending stew has been around, quite literally, forever…
Young children tend to exhibit lantern consciousness; so do many people on psychedelics. This more diffuse form of attention lends itself to mind wandering, free association, and the making of novel connections — all of which can nourish creativity. By comparison, caffeine’s big contribution to human progress has been to intensify spotlight consciousness — the focused, linear, abstract and efficient cognitive processing more closely associated with mental work than play.