Weeklog for Week 11: March 13 to March 19

Mar 19, 2023

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Peppercorn (law) - Wikipedia
'Bizarro World' - The Boston Globe: "That's what my wife and I entered when we drove up to an arcade in Weirs Beach, New Hampshire, where she would attempt to break an official world record in the classic video game Tetris."
Adenovirus 36 and Obesity: An Overview - PMC: "The most widely studied infectious agent possibly linked to obesity is adenovirus 36 (Adv36). Adv36 causes obesity in animals. In humans, Adv36 associates with obesity both in adults and children and the prevalence of Adv36 increases in relation to the body mass index."
Computers Are Bad: the door close button: discussion of the elevator door close button and surrounding controversy
The rise and stall of world electricity efficiency:1900–2017, results and insights for the renewables transition - ScienceDirect
Vesuvius Challenge: "Resurrect an ancient library from the ashes of a volcano. Win $250,000. The Vesuvius Challenge is a machine learning and computer vision competition to read the Herculaneum Papyri."
blog/3. The Secret World of Programmers.md at main · npmaile/blog · GitHub
Could you train a ChatGPT-beating model for $85,000 and run it in a browser?
ViperGPT: Visual Inference via Python Execution for Reasoning
Building a Second Income Stream by Writing a Book: "Spoiler: It’s quite possibly the hardest way to build a passive income stream."

Card Shark: You have to perform the card tricks yourself! You have to perform the card tricks yourself. Amazing! Also quite hard. 8/10
Lonely Mountain Downhill: Like that ski game, very relaxing little racing/discovery game. I like it. 8/10