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
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 […]
“A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.” ~ learn more
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
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 […]
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 […]
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
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 […]
Context: the creator of this video is a short seller who will profit from decline of Cash App’s parent company’s stock. “This compilation shows various songs named after or referencing Cash App that feature its use in illegal activity including […]
This is old new from 2015, yet entertaining to me in 2023. “Following what appears to be a major oversight, lawmakers in Ireland are scrambling to pass emergency legislation after a Tuesday morning court ruling resulted in the legalization of […]