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50 legendary internet rabbit holes you can spend hours exploring👇
1. zoom.earth — Watch the world via live satellite imagery
2. flightradar24.com — See every plane currently in the sky
3. marinetraffic.com — Track all ships at sea in real time
4. windy.com — Live map of winds and storms
5. lightningmaps.org — Watch lightning strikes hitting Earth in real time
6. earthquake.usgs.gov — Live list of recent earthquakes
7. submarinecablemap.com — Ocean cables carrying the internet
8. globalforestwatch.org — Watch forests disappear from space
9. worldometers.info — The world's statistics, second by second
10. internetlivestats.com — Current number of tweets and searches being posted
11. thetruesize.com — Compare the true sizes of countries
12. oldmapsonline.org — Maps from centuries ago
13. davidrumsey.com — Archive of 150,000 historical maps
14. openstreetmap.org — World map drawn by volunteers
15. window-swap.com — Look out the window of a random person around the world
16. virtualvacation.us — Virtual walks through cities
17. mapcrunch.com — Teleport to a random spot on Earth
18. atlasobscura.com — Catalog of the world's strangest places
19. neal.fun — Interactive knowledge experiences
20. htwins.net/scale2 — Scale journey from atom to universe (Updated HTML5 link)
21. eyes.nasa.gov — Explore the solar system in 3D
22. stellarium-web.org — Real sky map in your browser
23. apod.nasa.gov — NASA's astronomy picture of the day
24. images.nasa.gov — NASA's entire visual archive, free
25. pudding.cool — Visual articles told through data
26. ourworldindata.org — The state of the world with real data
27. gapminder.org — What we mistakenly think we know about the world
28. informationisbeautiful.net — Visualizing complex data
29. data.worldbank.org — World Bank's open data
30. data.tuik.gov.tr — Turkey's official statistics database
31. archive.org — Archive of millions of books, films, and software
32. gutenberg.org — 70,000 free books whose copyrights have expired
33. openlibrary.org — Record of every book in the world
34. loc.gov — U.S. Library of Congress digital archive
35. europeana.eu — Europe's cultural heritage archive
36. dp.la — America's digital library collection
37. artsandculture.google.com — Tour museums from home
38. rijksmuseum.nl — Download artworks in high resolution
39. wikiart.org — Archive of 250,000 artworks
40. publicdomainreview.org — Forgotten visual treasures of history
41. openculture.com — Free archive of culture and education
42. metmuseum.org — Met Museum's open collection
43. musicmap.info — Family tree of music genres
44. radiooooo.com — Pick a country and decade to listen to that era
45. listen.hatnote.com — Turn Wikipedia edits into audio
46. wikipedia.org — Random knowledge well
47. timeanddate.com — Time, sunrises, and sky events
48. sciencedaily.com — Live stream of science news
49. arxiv.org — Free preprints of scientific papers
50. observablehq.com — Visualize data with live code
Save this. You’ll definitely need some of these later. 🔖
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Fusion
Dilution!
Wonderful, Daniel. Hope all is well. #poetry
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*"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment."*
#TuesdayMotivation
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The Lord of Doom is rising. Tiberius and his companions search for Almandraaz, the mighty dragon. The Prince of Flame will rise May 22
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🔢 The Collatz conjecture is one of the most deceptive unsolved mathematical problems of all time.
The puzzle consists in two main rules:
Let’s pick any hypothetical integer number (𝑛),
If the number is even, let’s divide it by 2.
𝑛/2.
If the number is odd, let’s multiply it by 3 and add 1.
3𝑛 +1.
The conjecture states that no matter what number one start with, will always eventually reach 1.
Example: starting with 6
6 is even → divide by 2 = 3
3 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 10
10 is even → divide by 2 = 5
5 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 16
16 is even → divide by 2 = 8
8 is even → divide by 2 = 4
4 is even → divide by 2 = 2
2 is even → divide by 2 = 1
Example starting with 7
7 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 22
22 is even → divide by 2 = 11
11 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 34
34 is even → divide by 2 = 17
17 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 52
52 is even → divide by 2 = 26
26 is even → divide by 2 = 13
13 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 40
40 is even → divide by 2 = 20
20 is even → divide by 2 = 10
10 is even → divide by 2 = 5
5 is odd → triple it and add 1 = 16
16 is even → divide by 2 = 8
8 is even → divide by 2 = 4
4 is even → divide by 2 = 2
2 is even → divide by 2 = 1
Once hitting 1, the sequence falls into a vicious loop: 1 → 4 → 2 → 1.
For large numbers may take a little longer to drop to 1 but any combination is hopeless, bouncing up and down won’t prevent the digits to crash to their lowest resolution.
🔗 github.com/ratwolfzero/Colla…
When I started first grade in an overseas Department of Defense school, I was bullied by a third grader on the playground at recess. He got increasingly aggressive every time I went out to play. Finally, I felt I had to defend myself.
A fight erupted and we both landed in the Principal’s office. A summoning call went to my parents. DOD schools were very strict back then and fighting was not allowed.
It was war time, but Dad, an Air Force combat pilot, just happened to be home when my school called. He and mom arrived in a matter of minutes. I explained what happened and after the Principal opined, I was sent home for the rest of the day. In the car, Dad said, “Son, sometimes you have to act in self defense or to protect someone else from harm, but in America, your freedom ends where another’s nose begins.” He went on to explain that freedom comes with important responsibilities and limits. It is subject to the equal freedom and rights of others.
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I'm over the moon, howling with joy at this great #BookReview from one of my favorite authors!! 😁🎉😁🎉😁🎉
amazon.com/dp/B0835Z14RB
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#FantasyBooks #FantasyBook #fantasy #UrbanFantasy #ParanormalBook #paranormal #WerewolfWednesday #werewolf #TeenWolf #TheOrder #Twilight
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🚀 I built a fast quantum state diagnostics tool for AWS Braket (and other hybrid platforms). It checks large density matrices (up to 1000x1000) in ~4 seconds and gives clear flags:
- Good coherent state
- Noisy mixed state
- Phase drift error
saves QPU time.
Open to feedback.
ALT Braket Fast State Inspector benchmark: Partially coherent state (52% purity), bad gate with strong phase drift (-26.97σ), and optimal coherent state. All processed in under 2.3 seconds.
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#DraftNikkiHaley to step in to serve out Senator Lindsey Graham’s term this year.
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Sunday Ramblings on Change
Change is painfully agnostic and fickle. It’s good. It’s bad. But as much as we think we can unmask it; Change remains stubbornly mysterious, enigmatic, defying all context like some sort of crazy Chameleon clashing with a clear and solid background. Sometimes Change is seemingly senseless, but is alive all around us.
We cannot reliably decrypt it. Change parades in its impenetrable Halloween regalia 24 hours a day, seven days a week. Trick or treat? None of us knows what the future holds. Just when we think we know what Change will look like, it walks up as Surprise instead.
Growing up, mom hung a large oil painting she and dad procured in Paris. And though I later came to realize that same country scene has been replicated many times by tens of thousands of artists, I loved that painting.
Deep in some heavily-treed woods, beside a small but fast-rushing river, was an ancient grain mill. Mossy mold grew in the seams of the roof tiles. Now, you might think the giant turning water wheel caught my attention, but it didn’t. No. Impressive as it was, what caught my attention and ignited my imagination was the innocuous little clay path beside the mill that ran ahead along with the river bank, slicing off to the right -out of the dark forest and into a brighter, well-lit but hidden clearing. I could never see around that corner, but it drew me.
I don’t know what Change will look like now, but good or bad, I always find myself walking down the path to engage it. #creativity #imagination
#DraftNikkiHaley to step in to serve out Senator Lindsey Graham’s term this year.
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Lindsey loved South Carolina deeply. There was never a day he stopped fighting for the people of our state.
Through his military service and years in public office, he gave his all to protect America and our freedom-loving allies.
He was truly one of a kind.
Michael and I are lifting up Darline and his entire family in prayer during this difficult time.
Hard to believe Schrödinger came up with this 100 years ago when Thomas Edison was arguing the world wanted silent movies more than “talkies”, National Bar Assn formed, Walt Disney Studios started, Houdini escaped a submerged coffin after 1.5 hours, in July Troy, NY was 108°F / Waterbury, Ct 105°F, 3 men danced the Charleston non-stop for 22 hours, and the Army Air Corps was founded.
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Travel time between earth and all planets
based on Nasa
#Educación
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina passed away unexpectedly last evening at 71 after returning from a diplomatic trip to Ukraine. He was a great American who loved this country and was respected on both sides of the aisle and internationally. He had a wonderful sense of humor. I will miss him.
@NikkiHaley South Carolina and the USA now need your leadership moving forward. #DraftNikkiHaley
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20 YEARS OF EGO
EGO started as a weekly theatre group on 7th January 2006 and has since grown into a humungous community of actors, artists, musicians and volunteers. We couldn’t be more grateful for your support.
ALT A celebratory collage marking 20 Years of EGO, with the number “20” made up of photos from EGO Arts productions, workshops and events, showing performers, creativity and community across the years.
Imagine the horror of discovering what you have worked so hard to conceive is just meaningless drivel! At some point, every fertile mind fears it may be growing nuisance weeds instead of things of beauty and value. #Creatives
J. Robert Oppenheimer in personal letter to a friend (1950s).
"The public sees the medals, the banquets, and the applause. They think it is a grand parade. They do not see the thousands of hours spent staring at a blank wall, the suffocating silence of an office at three in the morning, or the terrible fear that you have wasted your entire life chasing a shadow that doesn't exist. The true life of a physicist is lived in absolute, terrifying solitude."
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"What we observe as material bodies and forces are nothing but shapes and variations in the structure of space and time."
– Erwin Schrödinger
IF by Rudyard Kipling is as relevant today as when he penned it back in 1895. There is something magnificent about a humble, capable, confident human being. It transcends all times and places…
If
by Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you,
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to hating,
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
If you can dream—and not make dreams your master;
If you can think—and not make thoughts your aim;
If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster
And treat those two impostors just the same;
If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken
Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools,
Or watch the things you gave your life to, broken,
And stoop and build ’em up with worn-out tools:
If you can make one heap of all your winnings
And risk it on one turn of pitch-and-toss,
And lose, and start again at your beginnings
And never breathe a word about your loss;
If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew
To serve your turn long after they are gone,
And so hold on when there is nothing in you
Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!’
If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings—nor lose the common touch,
If neither foes nor loving friends can hurt you,
If all men count with you, but none too much;
If you can fill the unforgiving minute
With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run,
Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it,
And—which is more—you’ll be a Man, my son!
