thoughts direct reality
timemap history
Super cool interactive map to learn about world history with a timeline scroll from 4000BC to 2000AD with integration for wikipedia to click on region of interest to learn more about a particular time in history.
youngest world chess champion
Gukesh became the youngest world chess champion after beating Ding in round 14 of WCC. Recaps of the round included.
your photos
This site tells you all the info it can with your uploaded photo using Google Vision API. It describes what the photo contains as well as extracting the metadata associated with the image. It goes to show how much an image can reveal your identity with any service you use online.
crystal ball game
This article tells of a game where participants gets the advantage of knowing next day’s WSJ front page news in advance in order to make bets via trading on the news. Spoiler: it doesn’t affect their performance by much and in fact they do worse unless they’re seasoned veterans in the game.
what is entropy
A long form article explaining what is entropy and why it’s difficult to comprehend on so many levels. It also includes interactive widgets for the user to get a better understanding on each section explaining different aspects of entropy.
xAI cluster
This 15-minute video walks through the 100,000 GPU cluster xAI had built in record time. There is technical explanation on what goes into the build including the networking, liquid cooling and hall design.
map of github
A project to map out all of the github projects like they are a territory on a map. Search your favorite project to see where it is :)