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HOW A 4-YEAR-OLD DID THE VOICEOVER FOR PEPPA PIG
This is so random, but I still thought it was an interesting tidbit. The original voice of Peppa Pig was a 4-year-old girl who couldn’t read the script. So they had her mom read the lines to her, and the girl would then copy her. I thought that’s an interesting way of doing things, and…
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1-CLICK .HEIC TO .JPG CONVERSION ON MACOS (WITHOUT INSTALLING ANY SOFTWARE)
I’ve now been a longtime MacBook user, but I know that there are many things I never make use of. Today I learned about a cool feature that natively comes with MacOS called Automator. With Automator, you can create automated tasks and processes from a wide variety of actions. This may include opening applications, copying…
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Neuralink: Telepathic typing, brain-implant robots & more
I’m not a tech person, but it’s amazing what Neuralink is up to. If you haven’t watched this the recent demonstration, it’s worth spending a few minutes watching this: A monkey that types with the power of his mind, without using his hand or actually tapping keys on a physical keyboard. If that’s not science…
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THE LIVER KING – HOW DO PEOPLE FALL FOR BS LIKE THIS?
I didn’t know who the Liver King was until he recently got exposed for being on steroids, and then I went down a bit of a rabbit hole to learn more about his story. A guy that claimed to be eating raw liver, exercising, and advocating a “primal lifestyle” who had an incredible, superhero-like physique…
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THIS PAINTING WENT FROM $10K IN 2005 TO $450M IN 2017
In 2005, Sotheby’s sold Leonardo DaVinci’s painting Salvator Mundi for $10,000. Twelve years later, in 2017, Saudi Prince Bader bin Abdullah bought paid $450,000,000 for it. How did this happen? It’s a fascinating story that Naha Tandon Sharma recently told in an article for Luxurylaunches, but the tldr is: The UAE and Saudi Arabia are…
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BE CAREFUL WHO YOU TRUST
Be selective generous with your trust. You want to have as many people in your life who you can count on, but no more. The cost of trusting someone who then betrays your trust is high, but the cost of not trusting anyone is even higher. So how exactly do you go about it? It’s…
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AI ART PROMPT ENGINEERING TOOLS
I’ve been enjoying working with text-to-image AI tools like Dall-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion recently, and one thing that really helped me generate more interesting images were tools that help you come up with prompts. Lexica Lexica is a stable diffusion search engine, so you can search for things, and then look at the related…
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THE DOOR-TO-DOOR SALES GAME: A DAY IN THE LIFE OF A SOLAR SALES REP IN FLORIDA
Many years ago I used to work as a door-to-door salesman, selling event tickets and experiences to companies. I wasn’t particularly successful at it, but it was a good challenge, and an experience I cherish even know, because it taught me a lot. The Tampa Bay Times recently published an interesting article about door-to-door salesmanship…
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That physics paper with “Never Going To Give You Up…”
This is one of the reasons why I love the internet: This is a pic of a physics paper a student handed in. This happened in 2014, but thanks to the internet, we still get to enjoy it today.
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Peppertype.ai review for AI-assisted long-form content writing (November 2022)
I’ve been trying out various AI-writing tools. I’m generally not a fan of AI-generated content, because quite frankly: the last thing we need is machines that churn out more content. So while I don’t like AI-generated content, I think AI-assisted content can be a great thing if used mindfully. Artificial Intelligence has been making major…
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