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Jul 24 2019

πŸš€"I shut off the space shuttle autopilot and flew it like a helicopter onto the moon". [copy]

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Last week, Neuralink held their first public event to talk about the progress they have made in building a brain-machine interface.

Here's a tldr.

And here is the launch event itself – a long video but probably a productive way to procrastinate mid-week.

And if that's not enough, here's a marathon post from Wait But Why about Neuralink, the development of human intelligence, and where it goes from here
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The moon landing was one of the most important moments in the history of computing, laying the foundations for everything from fly-by-wire cockpits to the smartphones in our hands.

πŸ€‘While the article is behind a paywall, the video is free to view.

Elsewhere, here is πŸ“ΊNeil Armstrong Narrating his Apollo 11 Moon Landing.
Tencent implements realtime, automatic censorship of chat images on WeChat by maintaining a hash index of MD5 hashes of sensitive image files.
πŸ₯‘πŸ§˜β€β™‚οΈThis article starts with a light-hearted observation on "premium mediocre" things around us. But it goes on to expand "premium mediocre" as a sign of our times: a pattern of consumption that publicly signals upward mobile aspirations, with consciously insincere pretensions to refined taste, while navigating the realities of inexorable downward mobility with sincere anxiety.

Highly recommended. Very interesting once you skim through the first 1/3rd.
In a world with uncapped 4G and good smartphones, our belief is that the need for a SuperApp fades away and we believe the future social lies in local communities focused 1 thing.

That means unbundling all 3 pillars of Hike; Messaging & Stickers, Gaming, News into individual apps

Interesting shift.

Wonder if we will see more of this with other tech companies.
Computer vision turns imaging into a universal input - it lets computer see. So what kinds of things will become vision problems, and how does that change Google or Instagram?

Athletes have long sought to harness the power of heroism in life-or-death moments. Why has it proved so elusive?
This spring in Delhi, the temperature reached 113 degrees Fahrenheit.

At that temperature, your eyes feel sandblasted, your skin feels on fire, the water is hot from the tap, and the leaves on the neem and amaltas trees wither and shrivel.

Dystopian.
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Other tidbits
Quotable
"I took over manually from the computer and flew it like a helicopter"

– Neil Armstrong narrating his descent to the lunar surface.

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