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First episode of the year. It’s on Dostoevsky’s book Demons. It’s out on all the platforms. Hope you enjoy it and have a great week, my friends. :) Today we discuss the philosophical themes of the book Demons by Fyodor Dostoevsky. We talk about western liberalism, the lack of

Language models were invented in 1950 by Claude Shannon.

It was bound to happen

The handwriting of famous authors - thread 🧵 1. Fyodor Dostoevsky's manuscript draft of The Brothers Karamazov

1 decillion (10³³) is the largest power of 10 known to humans that can be represented as the product of 2 numbers that contain no zero digits. A lot of mathematicians believe we won't find a larger number of this kind.

40 Adventure Books for Boys 📚 1. Treasure Island 2. 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea 3. The Wind in the Willows 4. Journey to the Center of the Earth 5. King Arthur (Pyle) A thread 🧵

The Feynman point is the name given to the position in the decimal expansion of π where a sequence of six consecutive nines first appears. It is named after the physicist Richard Feynman, who allegedly joked that he would like to memorize the digits of pi up to that point and

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Vladimir Nabokov's opinions on various writers, culled from 'Strong Opinions'

You don’t need bars to live in a prison. 🧠 Notes from Underground — trapped in his mind. 🏰 The Tartar Steppe — trapped in a fortress. Two men waited their whole lives for something to happen. Nothing did. #Dostoevsky #Buzzati #Existentialism

Eu e o João Cancela voltamos a olhar para as bases sociais do sistema partidário, agora em evolução 2022-2025. pedro-magalhaes.org/as-bases-socia…

Museu "Casa Memória EN2" no Algarve. Sobre a Estrada Nacional 2 que atravessa 🇵🇹 de Chaves a Faro: a mais longa estrada nacional da Europa. Concluída pelo Estado Novo em 1945. Ainda hoje muito usada. O museu tem foco no trabalho dos cantoneiros que tratavam da estrada. Visitem!👇🏼

Getting AI to write good SQL: Text-to-SQL techniques explained cloud.google.com/blog/products/…

What if Frankenstein was a stray dog, turned man, turned Soviet bureaucrat? Bulgakov’s Heart of a Dog is surreal, hilarious, and political. The result? A grotesque caricature of the Soviet man: part mutt, part Marx. #Bulgakov #SovietSatire #HeartOfADog

We’ve never engineered stupidity at this scale and called it progress. In "Screen Damage", Michel Desmurget combs the literature to dismantle the myth of the digital native, showing how screen exposure isn’t accelerating our children, it’s stunting them. #Desmurget #ScreenTime

Reading isn’t natural. Your brain had to recycle old circuits to do it. 🧠📚 In Reading in the Brain, Stanislas Dehaene explains how we decode language through neuronal recycling and why phonics is a neuroscientific necessity, not a trend. #Literacy #Neuroscience #Phonics

Jorge Luis Borges for Data Scientists: A thread on short stories that predicted the future of AI 🧵 He wasn’t a data scientist, but in his book ‘Fictions’, he mapped problems we now face in AI: overfitting, black boxes, LLM hallucinations, legal risks. Let’s break it down👇

Poisson was born exactly 244 years ago today. He introduced the Poisson distribution, used to model how often events occur in a fixed time or space. One of its earliest practical applications came in 1898, when Ladislaus Bortkiewicz used it to analyze the number of Prussian

The 6 Greatest Portuguese Writers: Luís de Camões (1524–1580) Considered Portugal’s greatest poet, Luís de Camões is best known for his epic poem Os Lusíadas (1572), which celebrates Portugal’s maritime discoveries.

We hear “1 in 200” or “0.1% chance” all the time but sometimes it's hard to grasp what those numbers mean. So I built a web app to translate probabilities into real-world analogies: dice rolls, poker hands, birthdays. Link: probability-translator.streamlit.app #probability #statistics