Comic, Elon Musk’s school, and the Google calculator – Top 3 of the week
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Elon Musk’s private school at SpaceX
In a corner of SpaceX’s headquarters in Hawthorne, California, a small, secretive group called Ad Astra is hard at work. These are not the company’s usual rocket scientists. At the direction of Elon Musk, they are tackling ambitious projects involving flamethrowers, robots, nuclear politics, and defeating evil AIs. Those at Ad Astra still find…
How to use the calculator, graphing calculator, and geometry calculator built in to Google
How to use the calculator built in to Google. This may be an old trick, but it’s still very useful. When performing a Google search, you can instead type a problem to solve, such as 23*21 like in the example pic above. Google will then switch to calculator mode and show you the answer. You…
Add a background to screenshots with Screely
Source: Screely – Generate Beautiful Images When using the built in screenshot tool in macOS, a drop shadow is automatically added. This makes the screenshots look really good. But, when you’re on a different operating system, your screenshots don’t look nearly as good. Screely is a free website that allows you to add drop shadow, background, fake…
Search your Chrome bookmarks with the Holmes Chrome Extension
Search your Chrome bookmarks with the Holmes Chrome Extension. Source: Holmes – Chrome Web Store If you’re a heavy user of bookmarks in Chrome, then this extension can help you find the bookmark you need.
Why you want to customize your computer
Increasingly, though, I am uncomfortable with the distinction we casually make between “pro” users and “regular” users. I don’t think these sorts of utilities are useful just for computer nerds. (There’s another category we should leave behind us.) I think they’re useful for everybody. Put another way: we’re all “pro” users. I want to…
The death of ed tech, Comic for July, and blurring out images – Top 3 of the week
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IBM’s Project Debater shows the advancement of AI
On a stage in San Francisco, IBM’s Project Debater spoke, listened and rebutted a human’s arguments in what was described as a groundbreaking display of artificial intelligence. The machine drew from a library of “hundreds of millions” of documents – mostly newspaper articles and academic journals – to form its responses to a topic…