estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017
For nearly 190 years, scientists have searched for the origins of ancient sea-going reptiles from the Age of Dinosaurs. Now a team of Swedish and Norwegian palaeontologists has discovered remains of the earliest known ichthyosaur or ‘fish-lizard’ on the remote Arctic island of Spitsbergen. https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/231335
I was in a job interview. The manager handed me his laptop and said, "I want you to try and sell this to me."
I put it under my arm, left the building, went home. Eventually he called my mobile and said, "Bring it back here right now!"
I said, "$100 and it's yours." #jokes
Ever-expanding animation of the life of the 796th floor of a space station https://floor796.com/#t4r0,512,512
Build an Ecommerce Chatbot With #Redis, #LangChain, and #OpenAI
Given the recent surge of AI-enabling APIs and web development tools, it seems like everyone is building chatbots into their applications. Want to see what’s involved? Here’s an overview.
https://redis.com/blog/build-ecommerce-chatbot-with-redis/
10 women who made significant contributions to space history. https://theportalist.com/female-astronauts
"Apparently, the very idea of colorblindness is hard to visualize. Take a shot at looking through my eyes…"
https://www.theverge.com/23650428/colorblindness-design-ui-accessibility-wordle
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NPR quits Twitter after being falsely labeled as 'state-affiliated media' : NPR
https://www.npr.org/2023/04/12/1169269161/npr-leaves-twitter-government-funded-media-label
From lawsuits to IT hacks, the creative industries are deploying a range of tactics to protect their jobs and original work from automation https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2023/mar/18/chatgpt-said-i-did-not-exist-how-artists-and-writers-are-fighting-back-against-ai
"A small cross-disciplinary team of engineers worked together to add a feature so journalists at The Washington Post could link their Mastodon profiles from The Post’s website and verify themselves on the social network." https://washpost.engineering/heres-how-the-washington-post-verified-its-journalists-on-mastodon-7b5dbc96985c
Open airport map https://openairportmap.org
This is different... and cool.
New Order's Blue Monday was released on 7 March 1983, and its cutting-edge electronic groove changed pop music forever. But what would it have sounded like if it had been made 50 years earlier? In a special film, using only instruments available in the 1930s - from the theremin and musical saw to the harmonium and prepared piano - the mysterious Orkestra Obsolete present this classic track as you've never heard it before.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHLbaOLWjpc
Tabloid: the clickbait headline programming language https://tabloid-thesephist.vercel.app/
Tabloid is a real, Turing complete programming language written in JavaScript, inspired by cilckbait headlines.
Boston police responded to reports that an individual armed with a long gun was lurking around a busy train station on Friday night. Turns out, it was Boba Fett.
https://boingboing.net/2023/04/10/boston-police-respond-to-armed-boba-fett-at-train-station.html
A French policeman stopped an Englishman's car and asks if he has been drinking.
With some difficulty, the Englishman admits that he has been drinking all day.
The policeman proceeds to breath test the Englishman and verifies that he is drunk.
He asks the Englishman if he knows why, under French Law, he is going to be arrested.
The Englishman answers, "No, I don't! But while we're asking questions, do you know this is a British car and that my wife is driving on the other side?"
Whether these American book reading statistics give you cause for concern or reason to hope, there are steps you can take to rekindle your love of reading.
https://justpaste.it/6ta1r
It may be time to re-think presentation decks. ...I really like the advice here. Including "Write the deck but don't present it." https://rishad.substack.com/p/re-thinking-presentations
Yes, the family had long called it 'The Bruegel,' but it was an affectionate dig at a painting that was clearly a fake. Turns out, the family joke was a hidden masterpiece, a genuine work of Pieter Bruegel the Younger, a 17th-century Flemish artist. Painted more than 400 years ago."
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2023/04/04/bruegel-dusty-painting-masterpiece-auction/
estherschindler
Writer. Editor. Baseball. Cats. Chocolate. Not necessarily in that order.
Joined Dec 2017