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Things that aren't doing the thing (strangestloop.io)

a day ago | downboots | strangestloop.io | best

1

Nobel Prize of Physics 2025 Explained (medium.com/ariankhanhussaini)

5 days ago | downboots | medium.com | newest

1

Form Follows Function (wikipedia.org)

3 weeks ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Hallucination (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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The lab where robots run their own experiments (2020) [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Desmond Doss (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

The Purring Test (ted.com)

a month ago | downboots | ted.com | newest

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Birth of a Bee [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

3

List of existing technologies predicted in science fiction (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | best

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Michel Levin – Natural and Artificial forms of life [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

1

Hawala (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Popular Reinforcement Learning algorithms and their implementation (2023) (aimind.so)

a month ago | downboots | aimind.so | newest

1

Just-Noticeable Difference (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Air Powered Integrated Circuit for Soft Robot Mechanism [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

2

OpenScan 3D Scanning (openscan.eu)

a month ago | downboots | openscan.eu | newest

2

Tic-Tac-Toe game state graph (numpix.github.io)

a month ago | downboots | github.io | newest

4

Visualizing Automorphisms of S6 (travisdoesmath.github.io)

a month ago | downboots | github.io | frontpage

2

How I started building Lichess (2021) (lichess.org)

a month ago | downboots | lichess.org | newest

1

Going the Distance (theapiarist.org)

a month ago | downboots | theapiarist.org | newest

1

Accidental (Language) Gap (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Dot-Com Bubble (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

2

Memetic Warfare (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Major System (Mnemonic Device) (major-system.info)

a month ago | downboots | major-system.info | newest

2

How to turn a sphere inside out (1994) [video] (youtube.com)

a month ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

1

Heat Recovery Ventilation (wikipedia.org)

a month ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Hyperscope (grand-illusions.com)

2 months ago | downboots | grand-illusions.com | newest

2

Prion (wikipedia.org)

2 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

3

Interactive Tree of Life Explorer (onezoom.org)

2 months ago | downboots | onezoom.org | frontpage

2

History of Humanoid Robots [pdf] (merphi.se)

2 months ago | downboots | merphi.se | newest

1

Krebs Cycle (wikipedia.org)

2 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Adventures in State Space [video] (youtube.com)

3 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

4

Eyecam (marcteyssier.com)

3 months ago | downboots | marcteyssier.com | frontpage

1

Microfluidic Rotary Selector Valve (yputube.com)

4 months ago | downboots | yputube.com | newest

2

Microfluidic device: separation, sorting, mixing [video] (youtube.com)

4 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

2

Labubu (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Compressed Sensing (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | frontpage

5

An empirical approach to economic intelligence in World War II [pdf] (cia.gov)

4 months ago | downboots | cia.gov | newest

8

Ultra-Rapid Vision in Birds (plos.org)

4 months ago | downboots | plos.org | frontpage

1

Myo Gesture Armband Teardown (adafruit.com)

4 months ago | downboots | adafruit.com | newest

2

Warping (Sailing) (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Truchet Tiles (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | best

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Deleting My Second Brain: Back to Real Thinking (youtube.com)

4 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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How Soviet Russia Once Bugged an American Embassy's Typewriters (2019) (ieee.org)

4 months ago | downboots | ieee.org | newest

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The Human Use of Human Beings (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Adjustable Spring mechanism (youtube.com)

4 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

2

Harmonagon (harmonagon.com)

4 months ago | downboots | harmonagon.com | newest

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Blender Chaldni Plate (youtube.com)

4 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Fairy Ring (wikipedia.org)

4 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Breadboard Wristwatch (hackaday.io)

4 months ago | downboots | hackaday.io | newest

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Serfdom (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Biotechnology (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Underemployment (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Magellan Expedition (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

1

Tight Belts and Health (askdrmanny.com)

5 months ago | downboots | askdrmanny.com | newest

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Recognizing and Communicating with diverse intelligences [video] (youtube.com)

5 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Lysenkoism (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Anthropometric Source Book (1978) [pdf] (nasa.gov)

5 months ago | downboots | nasa.gov | newest

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How the universe thinks without a brain (youtube.com)

5 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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What the role of the US department of education is not (ed.gov)

5 months ago | downboots | ed.gov | newest

2

Antinutrient (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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The Chambered Nautilus (poetryfoundation.org)

5 months ago | downboots | poetryfoundation.org | newest

2

Google Scholar is Manipulatable (2024) (arxiv.org)

5 months ago | downboots | arxiv.org | newest

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Interesting War Tactics (reddit.com)

5 months ago | downboots | reddit.com | newest

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Landscape Ecology (wikipedia.org)

5 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Structured Etymology Dataset (github.com/droher)

5 months ago | downboots | github.com | frontpage

1

Map of the Known Human Metabolic Pathways (2017) (reddit.com)

5 months ago | downboots | reddit.com | frontpage

3

Where does debt go after death? (ramseysolutions.com)

6 months ago | downboots | ramseysolutions.com | newest

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Pricing Strategy (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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A "Pickproof" lock design using fractal vice idea [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Common Mind Traps [pdf] (bsu.edu)

6 months ago | downboots | bsu.edu | newest

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Argüman (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Shithead (Card Game) (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Anisotropy (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Nigh-Omniscience (Superpower) (powerlisting.fandom.com)

6 months ago | downboots | fandom.com | newest

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Intelligent Idiots [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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CEO Update: Exploration and experimentation for bold evolution (stackoverflow.blog)

6 months ago | downboots | stackoverflow.blog | newest

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Paper Mechanisms (cutfoldtemplates.com)

6 months ago | downboots | cutfoldtemplates.com | best

2

Tacking (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Fearmongering (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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Tactics and Keyframes: Visualizing Lean 4 Proofs in Blender [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Big scary equation –> Mathpix –> ChatGPT –> commented Python (twitter.com/sirupsen)

6 months ago | downboots | twitter.com | newest

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WW3 will be fought with money [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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C64 Bass Guitar – Cool to Be Square Wave? [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Mussel Watch Program (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Parametric Modeling with Grasshopper (baharmon.github.io)

6 months ago | downboots | github.io | frontpage

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Parametric Architecture with VisualArq [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

2

3D Printed TPU Bellows [video] (youtube.com)

6 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Full Control.xyz Freeform Gcode (fullcontrol.xyz)

6 months ago | downboots | fullcontrol.xyz | frontpage

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Spider Board for Data Recovery (eu.com)

6 months ago | downboots | eu.com | newest

2

Dunbar's Number (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Bounded Rationality (wikipedia.org)

6 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Concentrated Disadvantage (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Multi-Domain Operations and the future of war [video] (2019) (youtube.com)

7 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Drawing a Transformer Network Layout (medium.com/data-science)

7 months ago | downboots | medium.com | newest

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Counter-Reformation (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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World Brain (wikipedia.org)

7 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Ship of Theseus (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Mimetic Theory (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest

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Metamaterial Mechanisms (UIST 2016) [video] (youtube.com)

8 months ago | downboots | youtube.com | newest

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Tote Board (wikipedia.org)

8 months ago | downboots | wikipedia.org | newest