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I'll try to keep these in a rough 3-2-1 fashion in each issue, with 3 things I've found interesting from others, 2 things I've been wondering about, and 1 thing I've done.
3 things I've found interesting
- Found out about 100 Rabbits, a tag-team of two people sailing around the world making open-source software
- OpenAIs recent work with DALL-E and CLIP. Some really revolutionary stuff in combining text and image domains.
- Vlogbrothers on How To Change What you Want. Interesting video on how content we consume steers our wants and what we want to want affects our actual wants. Hank says it in a way that makes a lot more sense so give it a watch.
2 things I've been wondering about
- Why didn't I start writing earlier? Writing has always been a way to help me organize my own thoughts. Now that I've started writing more frequently, I feel like I'm able to better put the jumble of thoughts inside my brain onto paper (or I guess a Markdown file in this case).
- Promoting healthier hacking culture. Conversation inspired by this tweet. What can we do as hackathon organizers to make events less stressful/hypercompetitive for attendees (especially those who are differently-abled)?
1 thing I've done
- I wrote a reflection piece about my 2020 as well as set some goals for the upcoming year! A few interesting tidbits on paratelic vs telic goal setting.
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