Why Elon musk won`t save us?
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How to live an intellectual life
via Big Think
When you picture an intellectual, who do you see? Professor Zena Hitz says that somewhere along the way, the idea of what an intellectual is and does becomes distorted.
"The real thing is something more extraordinary but also more available to us," Hitz adds, differentiating between an intellectual life constantly in pursuit of something else, and one that enjoys ordinary activities like reading and thinking.
An example is young Albert Einstein, who spoke highly of his time working in a patent office and hatching "beautiful ideas" long before becoming a famous physicist.
How to Unlock Your Hidden Creative Genius
via James Clear
Photograph: Jennifer Griffin
The Creative Process
Gather new material.
Thoroughly work over the materials in your mind.
Step away from the problem.
Let your idea return to you
Shape and develop your idea based on feedback
Is There Such a Thing as ‘Naturally Creative'?
While we often think of creativity as an event or as a natural skill that some people have and some don't research actually suggests that both creativity and non-creativity are learned
Why Elon Musk won`t save us
“Everyone in Tesla is in an abusive relationship with Elon.”
— Former Tesla Executive
“The $138 billion wealth growth of Tesla founder Elon Musk alone could cover the ten-year costs of tuition for 5.5 million community college students and feeding 29 million low-income public school kids over the summer [in the United States] — and still leave Musk $4 billion richer than he was before COVID.”
— Inequality.org
“The problem with out-of-the-box approaches is that they tend to ignore the on-the-ground realities faced by actual human people.”
Elon Musk is making a city for the 1% not for all.
Why do humans see faces in everyday objects
via Arstechnica
The "face on Mars"—an image taken by the Viking Orbiter in 1976— is one of the best-known examples of pareidolia.
The phenomenon's fancy name is facial pareidolia. Scientists at the University of Sydney have found that not only do we see faces in everyday objects, our brains even process objects for emotional expression much like we do for real faces rather than discarding the objects as "false" detections.
Author David Alais, of the University of Sydney Said,
We are such a sophisticated social species and face recognition is very important... You need to recognize who it is, is it family, is it a friend or foe, what are their intentions and emotions? Faces are detected incredibly fast. The brain seems to do this using a kind of template-matching procedure. So if it sees an object that appears to have two eyes above a nose above a mouth, then it goes, "Oh I'm seeing a face." It’s a bit fast and loose and sometimes it makes mistakes, so something that resembles a face will often trigger this template match.
"A striking feature of these objects is that they not only look like faces but can even convey a sense of personality of social meaning.
This 'cross-over' condition is important as it shows the same underlying facial expression process is involved regardless of image type," said Alais. "This means that seeing faces in clouds is more than a child's fantasy. When objects look compellingly face-like, it is more than an interpretation: they really are driving your brain's face detection network. And that scowl, or smile—that's your brain's facial expression system at work. For the brain, fake or real, faces are all processed the same way.
What happens when we stop using Emojis
Created in the ’90s by Japanese technologists, most notably by designer Shigetaka Kurita, emojis have been integrated into the Unicode standard since 2010.
Anyone can submit a proposal for their own designed emoji but there is very few chances that it might get accepted. After that, the emojis will be customized by the big tech companies like Google, Apple, etc
Gus Fonts, Product Manager for Android, has talked about Google’s change from their former emoji set, which used blobs called “peanuts”, to their newer, more standardized design:
“Emoji is a balance of symbolism and actual representation of the real thing. We were on one extreme before with the peanuts, and now the other has real representation. What we saw was, if you go too far in that [representational] direction because you want to be inclusive, people don’t see themselves represented and they’re not going to use it. You have to have enough specificity to represent you enough, but not so inclusive that your emoji palette is hundreds of thousands of emoji.”
In the first few days, I did have to edit emojis out of my messages, as I was using them reflexively In the end, I found myself adding a lot of exclamation marks, "hahaha", and writing more sentences to better communicate my mood. The need to better convey my messages forced me to have a deeper understanding of what I was trying to communicate in the first place. Sometimes, a heart means “I love you”, “I miss you”, “I hope you’ll feel better soon”, “I love what you’re saying”, etc. Was I expecting my interlocutors to guess the exact meaning? I’m happy that it forced me to phrase my thoughts, look deeper into them, better identify and express them. I had to write "Thank you" or "That's great!" instead of adding a reaction emoji under a Slack message, Twitter DM, or Discord message, and I like to believe that those words carried more value than one more thumb up added to the pile.
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