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Some diamonds truly are rare.
So rare that they get their own names, like the 105 carat Koh-i-Noor diamond. ~ learn more
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The complete guide to international packing symbols.
We have a box in our living room from a recent purchase. My daughter wondered what the symbols on the box meant. It was a great chance to explain the international standards that help our supply chains run smoothly. Why […]
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The Forbes 30 under 30.
They have collectively raised $5.3 Billion in funding. They have also been arrested for fraud and scams worth over $18.5 Billion. This is from a tweet — does anyone want to fact check this? ~ source
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JFK’s speech to Congress in 1961.
He came to ask them for $10 Billion in funding to put a man on the moon by the end of the decade. We know how that story ended! Well, at least those of us who haven’t subscribed to the […]
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Segal’s law.
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” ~ learn more
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What’s a one-hot?
Imagine you had a bunch of on/off switches and only one could be in the on position at a time. That group is a one-hot. It’s used in digital circuitry and more recently natural language processing and machine learning. ~ learn more
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Benihana’s Guinness world record.
It was for the longest cooking marathon, back in 2018. It lasted 42 hours and 17 minutes. It was the inaugural National Fried Rice Day. There’s a culture of world record breaking at the organization. “For former wrestler and Benihana […]
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The Fosbury flop changed athletes’ bodies.
This short post reminds me that adaptation is happening in real time all around us. “The Fosbury flop gave an advantage to athletes who start with a high center of mass. In just eight years after Fosbury won gold in […]
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Moving apps around your iPhone home screen.
Did you know you don’t have to do it one by one? I did not until I watched this short instructional video. It was a moment where I simultaneously felt dumb and enlightened. ~ learn more
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El Ratoncito Pérez.
Americans have the tooth fairy, but much of the world has El Ratoncito Pérez. “In 1894, Queen Maria Christina commissioned [Luis] Coloma to write a tale for King Alfonso XIII, who had just lost a tooth at the age of […]