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            <title><![CDATA[The Sadness After Good Days]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Last week passed so fast, I can barely believe that it was real. But I keep the memories of dancing to Rage Against the Machine, the soft embraces of the people I met, the bittersweet goodbyes, and the warmth still lingering in my chest. Sardinia was a wild mix.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Building Faster than I can Live]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I paid 200€ for Claude Code, and in one week, I built something that should have taken me two years. The result is playtiao. com: a digital two-player board game, with matchmaking, AI opponents, rankings, tournaments, tutorials. Tested. Documented. Production-ready. ~192.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[On Reciprocity and Pho]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 13 Mar 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this postcard: Lunar New Year in Hanoi, hitchhiking to Cat Ba Island, rusty towers in Bac Son valley, the Ban Gioc waterfalls, and a small reflection on kindness and reciprocity. I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn. At some point during the Tet dinner.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Unlearning Minimalism and Leaving Pai]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 14 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey there my dear friends, it is really hard to write these newsletters regularly. I want to write about things that pass through my mind, like the stream of consciousness that is always there, producing interesting and often novel thoughts and ideas, connecting knowledge.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Turn Your Life into Art]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Turn Your Life into Art - Lessons in Psychomagic from the San Francisco Underground is a beautiful book about how to design powerful experiences that are capable to change the life trajectories of other people by engaging parts of their subconscious.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Notes on Art and Magic]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Feb 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey there my dear friends, I am still gathering material for my Collection of Beauty, and it is growing rapidly. . . maybe a bit too rapidly. Every other day, I hunt for beautiful art, finding things from Wikimedia Commons, learning about artists I had never known before.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Assembling a Collection of Beauty]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey there my dear friends, many of you wrote me warm words after getting the last edition of this Newsletter, and I am happy to receive every single one of them. It makes me fill up with a warm and fuzzy feeling of gratitude, friendship, and connectedness.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[I'm back. After a long break.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Jan 2026 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hey there my dear friends, it's been a long time since the last Edition of this newsletter came out. And I feel sad about this, I really do. The truth is, I got annoyed by the current hype cycle of AI.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Memos from the Chairman]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book was a bit of a disappointment. Having heard so much about it, and read about it before it seemed like a book full of wisdom of how to run a company.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[all about love]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is an interesting dive into what the word love means and how it has mostly lost all meaning because people use the word love for all kinds of things. And in doing so they abuse the word quite a lot to mask things that are not loving at all.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The War of Art]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 26 Dec 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The War of Art is a book about fighting the enemy within, the Resistance, born out of fear (of success, failure, rejection, being wrong etc). This Resistance tries to keep us from creating art, with all kinds of self destructive tricks. We engage it in battle, every day, again.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anything You Want]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Anything You Want is a book about how business can (and maybe should? ) be conducted. Focusing on what is fun and meaningful, rather than in what is most effective or "the right way" or "industry standard".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Your Music and People]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 15 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Your Music and People by Derek Sivers is a guide to how to become successful in the music industry. It's about being professional, yet different and human and not losing the goal of what you want. As such, it has a lot of wisdom to offer.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Hell Yeah or No]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hell Yeah or No is a book about small ideas that have a profound impact on day to day live. It is showing different ways of clarifying "what you actually want" and inspecting why you want those things in order to live a beautiful and psychologically rich life.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Useful not True]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Truth means objective truth. True for everybody, everywhere, forever. There are not many things that fit this category. Instead we should focus on what is useful to us. And judge ideas based on their merit, not their "truth".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GPT-5, AI Gold at IMO and Genie 3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Aug 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time, OpenAI unveiled their newest and most powerful model yet, while Google has released the successor to their Genie models, and Meta gave a peek into their ambitions for the age of superintelligence. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Project Vend, Doppl and the Path to Medical Super Intelligence]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Jul 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with an AI running a small store business at Anthropic, an update to what Neuralink is up to, and a smartphone-optimized LLM of the Gemma family by Google. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Agentic Misalignment, Alpha Genome and Voice Design v3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a novel model by Google Deepmind that understands how single-nucleotide alterations affect genomes, an improved voice generation model by Elevenlabs, and alarming findings on agentic misalignment by Anthropic. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Darwin Gödel Machines, the Gentle Singularity and V-JEPA 2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a novel design for self-improving AI coding agents, an essay by Sam Altman about how AGI is already here, and a novel interactive world generation model by Odyssey. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google IO, Claude 4.0 and AI Video Generation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jun 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. The last two weeks have been crazy with announcements from different companies. Google IO happened, Anthropic released Claude 4.0, and OpenAI acquired a company for 6.5 billion to create AI consumer products... As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Cellular Alchemy, Pi 0.5 and Vibe Marketing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a new generalist robot action model by Physical Intelligence, an introduction to Vibe Marketing by Greg Isenberg, and an essay on the idea of cellular alchemy and how we are beginning to unravel how different cell types transform into one another. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia TTT, Google Cloud Next and AI Scientist-v2.0]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a video essay on things AI will never understand, OpenAI announcing o4-mini, and a paper on increasing temporal consistency for AI video generation. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alpha Evolve, CTM and Sequoia's AI Ascent Conference]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with Google's new Alpha Evolve system, showing that AI can solve hard novel problems, Continuous Thought Machine, a new brain-inspired approach for reasoning AI from Sakana, and some interviews from Sequoia's AI Ascent event. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI 2027, Gemini 2.5 and ChatGPT Image Generation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Apr 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the latest iteration of Google's Gemini Model, a detailed forecast scenario for where AI (and the world) is heading, and how AI crawlers are DDOS attacking public infrastructure. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia GTC, Manus, and Gemini Robotics]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with Google advancing the state of art for robotics with Gemini, Manus—a new and powerful Chinese autonomous AI agent, and the Nvidia GTC keynote. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Neuron Computer, Claude 3.7 and Open AI's Orion]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Mar 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a computer made out of living neurons by Cortical Labs, the release of Claude 3.7 and the impressive Claude Code by Anthropic, and the arrival of Open AI's GPT 4.5 codenamed Orion. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grok3, Quantum Chips, and Google's AI Co-Scientist]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with an announcement of the new Helix AI powering Figures robots, Microsoft's Majorana—a novel quantum computing architecture, the announcement of Grok3 by xAI, and much more. As always I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Create an Interactive Shader Editor]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this tutorial, we will create a fragment shader editor, similar to ShaderToy with React Three Fiber. We will use the awesome codemirror package and a few other neat tools to help make our lives easier. Along the way.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[New Space, Stable Point Aware 3D and Deep Research]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time, with a documentary on the privatization of space exploration, a Lex Fridman interview with Semianalysis, a much faster 3D from image generation model, and OpenAI's announcement of Deep Research. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Project Stargate, Deepseek R1, and MatterGen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a fair bit of politics around AI, a system by Microsoft that can create novel materials with specific properties and constraints, and Deepseek's R1–an open-source LLM from China that rivals OpenAIs o1. As always I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sam Altmans Reflections, Nvidia CES Keynote and AI as a Parasitic Cancer]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/sam-altmans-reflections-nvidia-ces-keynote-and-ai-as-a-parasitic-cancer</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Jan 2025 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with an article by Sam Altman reflecting on where OpenAI is heading, the Nvidia CES Keynote by Jensen Huang, and things we (or Simon Willison in particular) have learned about LLMs in 2024. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google's Veo 2, o3 by OpenAI, and AIs Faking Alignment]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/googles-veo-2-o3-by-open-ai-and-ais-faking-alignment</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time, with the announcement of o3 by OpenAI, new video and image generation model releases from Google, and research by Anthropic showing that today's AI will fake alignment even if not explicitly told to do so.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google Is Back, OpenAIs 12 Days of Demos, and the Deal Book Summit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. These last two weeks have been super packed with announcements. Google has released an insane amount of new things, while OpenAI is doing 12 consecutive days of demos, and the New York Times had its Deal Book Summit. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia Edify 3D, Flux Tools and Fugatto]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with booknotes for the book Innate, better AI image editing tools by Black Forest Labs, and an insanely good AI 3D generation model by Nvidia, as well as an article on the limitations of reasoning models like o1. As always I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Agentic Frameworks, Robots with Touch and AI Game Engines]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with booknotes on the Web of Meaning, a new agentic framework published by Microsoft, and Robots that can sense touch more similar to what humans can do. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Innate]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book details how our personalities and behavioral traits such as intelligence are influenced by our genes. Mitchell argues that we have traits that are to a certain degree innate and dives deep into the scientific literature explaining how we know that this is true. Yet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Truth Terminal, Claude Computer Use, and GitHub Universe]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/truth-terminal-claude-computer-use-and-git-hub-universe</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Nov 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. The last few weeks have been absolutely bonkers again regarding things that have happened in the AI world. New tools for music creation, AIs using computers, GitHub Copilot improvements, and more. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Productivity Systems]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[People often ask me how I can do so many different things, and be so productive. . . some even tell me that I am very disciplined. But yet, when I think about myself I don't consider myself to be very disciplined at all. My willpower to resist things is often zero.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Answer to AI's 600 Billion Dollar Question]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/answer-to-ai-600b-question</link>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The talks about AI have intensified greatly in the last few years since ChatGPT was first launched and since then generative AI tools like Midjourney, Udio, and Runway have taken the world by storm.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Web of Meaning]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 28 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Web of Meaning by Jeremy Lent is trying to give people a new worldview focusing on harmony, interconnection and cooperation, instead of competetion and exploitation.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The People I have Learned from the Most]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When I think about influential internet people in my life, I can assemble a list: a sort of "guide" through the internet, showing the route that I took. A route that links to people who heavily influenced my decision making, my thinking.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fifth Starship Flight, Machines of Loving Grace and Firefly Video]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/fifth-starship-flight-machines-of-loving-grace-and-firefly-video</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with an article by Dario Amodei on the benefits of AI, the fifth Starship flight by SpaceX, and two new video models, one by the University of Tokyo and one by Adobe. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Free Agents]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 07 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book Kevin Mitchell explains how evolution produced living things that can make choices for their own reasons and why this means that we have free will, even if our cognitive machinery is entirely based on the physical instantiation of our brains.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Best Yellow]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I want to get back into painting but the one thing that always bothered me with my old acrylic paints is that they never really covered each other well. So I set out to test which is the best yellow I can find on Amazon.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meta is Winning, AlphaChip, NotebookLM, and More]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/meta-is-winning-alpha-chip-notebook-lm-and-more</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This one is absolutely packed with exciting news and announcements from Meta, Google, and OpenAI. We have crazy AR glasses, AIs designing chips, creating videos and podcasts, and a lot more. The last 2 weeks have been crazy, so let's dive in!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fisherman's Trail - Day 5 - A Beautiful Last Day]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Waking up in the sand dunes in the early morning, I am freezing. It's gotten cold overnight, and condensation water is dripping from the walls of my tent, wind tearing at the fabric. But it's time to head out and leave. I love how easy it is to pack up the simple Decathlon tent.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fisherman's Trail - Day 4 - A Long Walk and Camping in the Dunes]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 28 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Walking in the morning after the last two days were spent recovering in bed from the stomach flu I had caught felt wonderful. I woke up early because I knew that I wanted to walk a long way today.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fisherman's Trail - Day 3 - A Day of Resting and Recovery]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today was a very slow day. Sick and tired, still having stomach cramps, I lay in bed for most of the day in my small hostel room. But during the middle of the day, I started to feel a bit better, so I went outside to see the beautiful coastline of Porto Covo.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fisherman's Trail - Day 2 - Walking to Porto Covo]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Leaving the small hostel in the early morning hours with a new friend was exciting. We knew where we wanted to go and that it was far, but we were also excited for a day full of beautiful conversations, hiking, and stunning landscapes, so with our backpacks squarely on our backs.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fisherman's Trail - Day 1 - Arriving in Sines]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Yesterday I arrived in Sines. It's a beautiful little Portuguese city near the ocean, and I slept in a wonderful little but expensive (35€ per night for one person) hostel named Origens Hostel. The view from the rooftop terrace had a funny geometry.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpenAI o1, Carpentopod and Diatom Art]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/open-ai-o1-carpentopod-and-diatom-art</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a focus on o1 - OpenAI's new model with advanced reasoning capabilities, a walking table project, a post on the beautiful but hidden art of diatom arrangements, and more. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diatom Arrangements]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This post is a bit of an odd one: it's a collection of images of diatom arrangements. Diatoms are single-celled algae that have a glass shell. This shell refracts light in beautiful colors if viewed under a microscope.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diffusion Models as Game Engines, 100M Context Windows and AlphaProteo]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/diffusion-models-as-game-engines-100-m-context-windows-and-alpha-proteo</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Sep 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a way for distributing training of AI models among many people and machines over the internet, a new model that can predict the binding proteins for specific target sites, and the announcement of gargantuan context windows. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[An AI Scientist, Meta's Sapiens, and Grok 2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a focus on the newly released AI Scientist by Sakana AI, the release of an even better 3D generation model, and the release of Grok 2 by xAI. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[More advanced Robotics, Neuralink Podcast and SAM 2]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Aug 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a Fireside Chat at SIGGRAPH, lots of interesting stuff happening in the field of robotics, and the release of the SAM 2 model by Meta. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Llama 3.1, Interactive Avatars and Mathematical AI]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/llama-3-1-interactive-avatars-and-mathematical-ai</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the release of the Llama 3.1 model by Meta, the announcement of HeyGen Interactive Avatars, and an AI achieving the equivalent of a Silver Medal at the International Math Olympiads. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Text to 3D, Robot TeleVision, and Neuralink Livestream]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the release of a text to 3D generation model by Meta, a paper by MIT on how to train robots using the Apple Vision Pro, and the latest Neuralink Update. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Unicorn Project]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 03 Jul 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Unicorn Project is a book about organizational change and the improvement of working conditions within tech organizations. It's about strategies and ideas that engineers can employ to maximize their and their teams' contributions to the company.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[SSI Inc, Situational Awareness, and Runway Gen3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the announcement of Safe Superintelligence INC by Ilya Sutskever, an essay series on how AGI is going to happen soon, and what that means for the world, as well as the release of the Gen3 video generation model by RunwayML. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Determined]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book, Robert Sapolsky is attacking the notion that free will exists. He does so by looking at the brain, the environment, and the interactions between the two.]]></description>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the WWDC keynote, more video models competing with OpenAIs Sora, the Nvidia keynote at Computex, a SpaceX launch, as well as an article by Casey Handmer on the solar industrial revolution. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Microsoft Build, AWS Summit and the Mind of LLMs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jun 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the Microsoft Build Keynote, updates from the AWS Summit, and an Anthropic paper on investigating the internal workings of their Claude Sonnet LLM. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anse de Couleuvre and Habitacion Cerón]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It was my last day in Martinique, and I was excited because I planned to make it a really fun and full last day. The plan was to hitchhike to a bunch of places in the North, visit a waterfall near Anse de Couleuvre, and maybe also see the Zamana tree in the Habitaciion Cerón.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tombolo of Sainte Marie, Anse du Sinai and a Rhumery]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[That day, I wanted to hitchhike around the Island some more and visit a few beautiful places along the North East coast. Hitchhiking away from my hostel worked well, and I found people who took me to Tombolo, of which I had seen pictures.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fort-de-France and La Trinité]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I liked Martinique immediately upon arriving because of the architecture of its biggest city, Fort-de-France. To me, roaming the streets of a new place can be incredibly exciting. Photos of architecture lurk at every corner. And I enjoyed my time in Fort-de-France a lot.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Soufriere]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Life is nothing but sweet mangos right now. I'm staying in Soufriere, the archetypical sleepy fishing village, where everybody knows everybody else. There's the sound of people playing dominoes coming up from a little shop in the street.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google IO, GPT4-o and AlphaFold 3]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the GPT4-o announcement from OpenAI, everything that happened at Google I/O, and the release of the AlphaFold 3 model. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Wavine Cyrique Waterfall]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hitchhiking to the Wavine Cyrique waterfall was hard and far from Soufriere, but eventually, we made it. After asking a few locals finding the way was not too difficult, especially with Organic Maps.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Waterfall Triangle and the Famous Emerald Pools]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[That day, Viola and I wanted to visit a bunch of different waterfalls in the jungles of Dominica, and we started our little adventure hitchhiking and taking buses. First stop: Salton Falls. On our way there, we were already getting excited about the adventures of the day.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Astribot, Simulon, and Reversible Computation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a stationary humanoid-like robot, a deep dive into why nothing can grow on Mars, and a startup that is using AI and a custom drilling rig to find valuable mining sites. As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Boiling Lake and Middleham Falls]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I wake up very early because today is a day when I want to hike a lot. I gulp down some cereal and milk before leaving Le Petit Paradis, where I was staying. Even though it's still early in the morning, it doesn't take long before sweat starts dripping down my face.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Freshwater and Boeri Lakes and the Magnificent Trafalgar Falls]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 04 May 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I wake up in Wotton Waven with a few more mosquito bites on my feet. Somehow, one or two always manage to sneak under the mosquito net, and my feet are already scratched. The morning is beautiful, though so I decided to go to the Boeri and Freshwater Lake.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Awareness]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 24 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Awareness is a book about waking up and realizing what we truly are. About stopping to identify ourselves with our desires and becoming free of the restrictions that our minds place upon ourselves. But at the same time it is about realizing that we are selfish beings.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Starbase Update, Llama 3 and Faster Data Transfers]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/starbase-update-llama-3-and-faster-data-transfers</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with the release of Llama 3, a new way to transfer data over fiber optic cables, Coding Adventures into text rendering, and a Starbase update by SpaceX. As always I hope you enjoy!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How To Live]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book Derek Sivers tries to answer the question of how to best live life. The funny thing is that each answer is contradictory to the previous ones.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mind and Cosmos]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Mind and Cosmos Thomas Nagel argues that there needs to be a fundamental part of reality that corresponds to consciousness. Something like an atom of consciousness from which everything else derives its conscious properties.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Surfing in Port Luis]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 20 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After spending so much time in Tikazalou, I felt it was time for a change, and I had heard that surfing would be good in a small town on the other side of Guadeloupe called Port Luis. So I went. And I wasn't disappointed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exploring the Waterfalls near Tikazalou]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 11 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The plan for today was to go see a bunch of waterfalls in the North of Guadeloupe in Basse Terre. A little excursion to interrupt the routine of Tikazalou. We knew that there would be four waterfalls at least.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Plage du Bosco and other Hidden Gems]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The days in Tikazalou blend into one another. A mix of beautiful moments, a sort of routine that settles in, with nice people and simply a good time and vibe. But some days we have little adventures that feel more like traveling and less like being in a cozy home.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Stable Audio 2, Terraform Industries and Bigger Chips]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/stable-audio-2-terraform-industries-and-bigger-chips</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with updates on the release of Stable Audio 2, documentaries on Terraform Industries, more Neuralink Patient 1 updates, and more. As always I hope you enjoy!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Saut d'Acomat, Slacklines, and a Piano]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 05 Apr 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The time in Tikazalou was punctured by beautiful little moments, excursions in between, places that we went to. Places that were simply beautiful and which I would like to write about (and go back again). One day after diving we went to a small waterfall known as "Saut d'Acomat".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Diving in the Caribbean]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 27 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One day in Tikazalou, Juliane, one of the people from the hostel, said that he was going diving today. He asked people if they wanted to join him and I considered for some time and then said: "hell yeah, let's do it". I hadn't dived in over 6 years.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia GTC, Devin, and Neuralink]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with Nvidia's GTC keynote, an AI-powered software engineer called Devin, and insane Neuralink updates. Plus, a new generalist AI agent by DeepMind and a new video editing AI by Meta. It's been an insane two weeks in the world of technology again and this edition is packed with awesomeness.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Arriving in Tikazalou Hostel after the Hike]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[After the crazy hike of the GR-G1, we slept one night in Malendure, a small town on the coast of Basse Terre. But we wanted to find a different place to stay. Lou, one of the people we met while hitchhiking, came to mind.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 6 - La Soufriere]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We wake up early again because we want to hike far today. The plan is to go up to the Soufriere Volcano, the biggest mountain in Guadeloupe and we were told the day before that the way up is hard and arduous.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 5 - The Carbet Falls]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 13 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We wake up early in the morning because we have a lot of hiking to do this day. First we walk up the small roads towards the end of the city of Capesterre de Bel Eau. On the way we meet a friendly man with a machete. He's cutting down some of his banana trees.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 4 - Resting]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 12 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I wake up really early, but even though I am still tired I can't quite make myself fall back asleep, outside I can see a beautiful sunset starting to begin. It's around 6:00 and I grab my camera, phone, and headphones, get out and watch the sunrise.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 3 - Reaching the Beach]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 11 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We sleep a bit longer than we would have liked to, but after the gruelling march of the day before, this is understandable. Nothing has really dried and getting back into the wet, grimy dirt clothes from the day before is a pain, but a necessary evil.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Google's Genie, LLMs at home, and OS-Copilot]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with foundation models that can generate 2D video games, better humanoid robots, and a chatbot that does the work of 700 call center agents. Plus, a new article by NotBoring and a new framework for LLMs that can interact with and control the operating system of a computer.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 2 - A Crazy Hike]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today I wake up and it's dark because the inside of the hut where we slept doesn't have any real windows. Glass might break and is expensive and open windows would allow rats and all sorts of animals to come into the shelter. It's still early.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GR-G1 - Day 1 - Beginning the Trace du Alicés]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 09 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today we left the boat of Sara after having spent over a week with her and the others on the small island of Marie Galante. It was a bitter sweet moment to say goodbye like this, but in the end it was the right moment to leave.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Outlive]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Mar 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a guide to living a long and healthy life. It is about increasing lifespan, our "good decades", more than it is about living longer per se. It focuses on the four horsemen (cancer, metabolic syndrome, alzheimers and cardiovascular diseases).]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open AI's Sora, AI Sound Effects, and Gemini 1.5]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with OpenAI and Elevenlabs changing the world of movie creation, how Google is opening access to some of their LLM models, and their Gemini 1.5 announcement. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 17 - Swimming in the Deep End]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This morning is beautiful. Serene. The sun rises while the moon sets. By now the moon is gone. There's almost no wind and the sea is calm. So calm. No waves and just the soft light of the morning sun give the waves and the water a hypnotic effect. The color of deep blue.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 16 - More stormy weather]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 22 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today was another day of quickly changing clouds and stormy weather. And the winds shifted too much today, so that we needed to also change our sailing configuration to a mainsail/foresail combination.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 15 - Chasing the storm clouds]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 21 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The first thing to tell about today is from the night shift itself. I went to bed after my night shift ended at around 04:30, only to wake up again almost immediately after because I could hear how the wind picked up and Christian tried to bring in the sails.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 14 - Double Rainbows]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today's day started with my morning watch. And in the background there were dark ominous clouds about one hour and a half into my watch.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 13 - A Day of Reading]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 19 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today was one of the most uneventful days so far. Nothing broke on the boat to fix, nothing to steer, no sail changes. It's like all of us today just went into an introspective mode. Reading, writing diary, listening to music.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 12 - Surfing the Waves]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today I woke up to see the sunrise after the morning watch had just ended. The sea has this particular golden pattern and color in the morning and I could just sit there for hours and watch the patterns of the waves dance around and play with the liquid golden sunlight.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 11 - Christians Ciabatta Bread]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 17 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today was a special day. So many small things happened that made the day perfect and beautiful that I am smiling with a big smile while writing this during my night shift. The day started with me having the morning shift.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 10 - Dolphins]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This day was without doubt one of the most eventful days of the whole journey, because so many beautiful things happened and everything all at once on the same day. I woke up because of a loud banging noise on the hull of the ship.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 9 - Sailing Maneuvers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 15 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today I was woken up in the very middle of the night and my sleep by Rebecca screaming something about the autopilot not working anymore or something. I thought I dreamt it only, but still went out to look and it actually didn't work anymore and she was steering manually.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 8 - Sunrise Magic]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 14 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today was an interesting day, beautiful sunrise, and I had the morning watch so I could witness and take it all in, in perfect solitude. French Kiwi Juice on my headphones, watching the clouds and the waves and the sails in the wind.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 7 - Crazy Hats]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 13 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today Christian did the most kickass recipe with the old, leftover bread. It's a German dish, called Scheiterhaufen and it's essentially old bread with sugar and butter and eggs, put into the oven together with some sour cherries. And the result is amazing.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 6 - Seagrass Fishing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's been a few days at sea now. 6 to be exact and there are about 12 more to go until we reach our goal of Guadeloupe. It's late at night and I am sitting here during another night watch.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robust Robotics, 3D Manipulation, and the Rise of Spatial Computing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 11 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with reviews of the Apple Vision Pro, Diffusion Models that you can run on your phone, four-legged robots that can automatically avoid obstacles, and more advanced 3D content manipulation tools. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 4 - Fish for Real]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 10 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I get woken up by Christian screaming for help. Both Rebecca and I are up immediately and run on deck to see what's going on. Fish. Not one, but two have bitten, one on each line. Two at the same time! It's said that Mahi Mahi, big golden mackerels.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 3 - Fish or no Fish]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 09 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the morning we put out the fishing lines every day. Fish usually hunt during sunrise and sunset and so at least during those times we try to have our lines set up with good bait. And this time, we actually caught something.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 2 - Out at Sea]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 08 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today the feeling started to sink in that this is going to be the place where we will be spending the next two and a half weeks together.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 1 - Leaving Mindelo]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 07 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today's the day and we're finally leaving the harbour of Mindelo Cape Verde for the big adventure of crossing the Atlantic. Everything is stocked up and ready but we are a big group of people who want to cross together, which makes starting much more difficult.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Day 0 - Preparing to Leave]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 06 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Today is a big day because tomorrow we want to leave to cross the Atlantic with the Tarpan. But before leaving we have to buy food, lots and lots of food, and also drinking water and things like beer and Coca Cola. There's a lot to do before we can leave.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Order of Time]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 05 Feb 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book Carlo Rovelli takes us on a journey through the nature of time, from the perspective of physics, philosophy, and human experience and shows how the three differ wildly. What we think time is like, is nothing like what it actually is. Time in a way does not exist.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Alpha Geometry, Morpheus 1 and AI Dubs]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time Google has announced that their AI can solve mathematical olympiad problems, Prophetic AI is trying to induce lucid dreaming states with AI, and Javier Milei's speech went wild on the internet, with an AI dubbed version being even better. As always I hope that you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robotics, Rabbit R1, and the Beginning of the Post-Truth Era]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 14 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with crazy breakthroughs in the field of robotics, another LK-99-related possible superconductor, and people warning about the beginnings of the post-truth era, where deepfakes generated by AI are so easy to create it's not even funny anymore.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Still the Mind]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Jan 2024 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book Alan Watts, in essence, argues that by ceasing the relentless striving for control and allowing ourselves to simply be, we can rediscover the wonder of our existence and our unity with the world around us.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[FunSearch, DeWave, and Music FX]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 31 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a new approach to add mathematical reasoning to LLMs, a way of reading people's brain waves with only EEG data, and announcements of multiple models to generate audio and 3D content. As always I hope you enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Book On The Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 23 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a philosophical exploration of identity, self-awareness, and the nature of reality.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Way of Zen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 19 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book by Alan Watts is trying to present Zen Buddhism in a way that it makes sense for the Western Mind.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GNoME, Quantum Computing, and Google's Gemini]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 17 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. Again, the last two weeks have been exploding in terms of announcements and awesome things that I have found. This edition is a wild mix: Robotic arms mimicking those of octopods, an essay about what it means to be human in the age of AI, crazy progress towards automated AI scientists, the interviews of the New York Book Deal Summit, the Gemini announcement and more...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI Video Generation, ChipNeMo, and Real-Time Image Generation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Dec 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with several updates on AI Video Generation, a piece on how companies should think about AI adoption, Real-Time Image Generation by StabilityAI, and a summary of the ousting of Sam Altman from OpenAI, and much more… I hope you enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[High Output Management]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A good book on effective management. For me it is not too applicable right now, since I am not managing people, otherwise, this might have deserved a better rating even. Very likely something that I am going to revisit a few years down the road.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[OpenAI Dev Day, Github Universe and Sam Altman leaving OpenAI]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 19 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. The last weeks were an absolute bonanza in terms of things that happened in the world of AI. The Presidential Executive Order, OpenAIs Dev Day, the GitHub Universe conference, the SnapDragon Summit, an AI automatically creating valid legal contracts, Runways Gen-2 update, Lumas text to 3D model, xAi releasing Grok, and OpenAI firing Sam Altman.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Talking Robots, Futurehouse and the Role of Computation & AI in Biotech]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 05 Nov 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a company trying to build semi-autonomous AI researchers, a TED talk by Stephen Wolfram on Computation, AI, and the nature of the Universe, a talking robot tour guide by Boston Dynamics, a dataset designed to help algorithms learn emotional intelligence, and more. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Adobe Max, The Techno Optimist Manifesto and Nvidia's Eureka]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/adobe-max-the-techno-optimist-manifesto-and-nvidias-eureka</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 22 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This one is absolutely packed because a lot has happened in the last 2 weeks. Adobe had its Max Conference, Nvidia is successfully training Robots within a simulation, and the biggest brain cell-type catalog has been released. And this is not even all… As always, I hope you enjoy this Edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Metaverse Interviews, GPT Improvements and Meta Connect]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a lot of updates from Meta about the awesome things they have been building, some mindblowing announcements for ChatGPT, and an amazing podcast interview from my favorite, Lex Fridman. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[DALL·E 3, AlphaMissense and Improvements to Google Bard]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 24 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. Lots of amazing stuff has been announced in the last two weeks: Better features for Google Bard, supreme music generation capabilities from Stability AI, and some serious improvements to image generation with DALL·E 3. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fury AI Drones, ASML manufacturing, and Seamless Translation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 Sep 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a deep dive on how ASML has innovated in the chip market, a paper showing that LK-99 is not a superconductor after all, Meta's seamless translation model, and much more.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brain2Music, Biosecurity Risks, and FlyWire: A Connectome of a Fruit Fly Brain]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/brain2-music-biosecurity-risks-and-fly-wire-a-connectome-of-a-fruit-fly-brain</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 27 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a paper decoding neural stimuli into music, some resources that dive into the risks that AI and other recent advances will bring to the world of biosecurity, a complete connectome of a fruit fly brain, and more. As always, I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Der Weg zum Glück]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a collection of quotes and teachings from the Dalai Lama. It covers a wide range of topics, from the nature of desire to the importance of being content with what you have. The Dalai Lamas teachings are simple and profound.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Room Temperature Superconductors, Llama2 and Single Photon Cameras]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 13 Aug 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time it's a bit different because I've read less AI-related news than usual and instead found some interesting things related to biology and physics I wanted to share. As always, I hope you enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The AI Dilemma, RoboCat and How to do Great Work]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a video explaining how harmful generative AI is going to be, a better way for AI to learn real-world tasks and an excellent article by Paul Graham. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mind Children]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 25 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Mind Children, Hans Moravec describes how humans will, eventually, create machines that are able to think, reason and feel, just like we do.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Joi, ChemCrow and the Economic Potential of Generative AI]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/joi-chem-crow-and-the-economic-potential-of-generative-ai</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 16 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a chatbot that can send erotic voice messages, an LLM that can synthesize chemical compounds, and an assessment of the economic potential of Generative AI. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nvidia Keynote, MusicLM, and Apple's Vision Pro]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Jul 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with some mindblowing product demos of Nvidia and Apple, more multi-modal models, and an AI that can learn how to play Minecraft on its own. ]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Einsteins Dreams]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is truly wonderful. A quick read, filled with extremely beautiful, almost poetry-like prose, and small short stories, about deeply human desires, fears and ideas, woven into small short stories about different universes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Der Steppenwolf]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 25 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I have read this book in German, so the detailed notes contain a bunch of quotes in German, but the book itself was amazing. The idea of the Magical Theater that shows you different alternate versions of how your life could have gone is powerful. So is the image of the lonely.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mind Reading, Senatorial Hearings and AI Image Editing]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. I already reached the 100+ tabs bookmarked again this week. The speed of things developing is nuts, and I have no idea how to put this into words anymore. I sometimes would like to drop everything else I do and just pursue learning about these developments full-time. And even then it would feel hard to keep up to date. But that's why I write this newsletter…]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[100k Token Contexts, AI Tutors and Google/IO]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Jun 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time it's one of those editions, where the amount of things that have happened recently is simply incomprehensible. I cut out so much that I would have liked to include in this edition… And still, this one grew beyond the 4-5 links that I try to set myself as a soft limit.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Software², Superabundant Intelligence, and MiniGPT]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 21 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with an open source alternative to ChatGPT, an article about a paradigm that might lead closer to the realization of AGI, and a list of crazy things that people build on top of tools like AutoGPT and BabyAGI.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Planning for AGI, Code that Fixes Itself and SAM]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 07 May 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a system named Wolverine that enables code to fix itself, an article describing the implications of a new paradigm called Software 3.0, and OpenAIs take on how they work towards creating AGI, while making sure that it's beneficial for as many people as possible.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[GPT-plugins, signs of AGI, and an Open Letter]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. With AI development picking up speed, it feels like new things are happening every day. I sometimes think that writing this newsletter only once every two weeks is not enough to catch up with all the awesome stuff that is happening. This edition will focus on AGI and the discussion that has ensued after ChatGPT Plugins and GPT-4 have been shown to the public.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Computational Languages, GPT-4 and Midjourney v5]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 Apr 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a moving speech by John Gardner, HustleGPT – one of the most exciting use cases of GPT-4 I've seen so far and some Life Hacks by Alexey Guzey. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[AI video animation, Sidney and Why Coding Won't Exist Anymore]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with articles on how AI is making programmers obsolete, how it can help in creating animated video content, and even make people fall in love with it. All the content from this week has one thing in common: It sent shivers down my spine because it confronted me with the amount of progress that has been made in the last few years. I hope to pass this feeling on to you as well. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blurry JPGs, the Meaning Crisis, and Spectrograms]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a bit of wisdom from Epicurus, an interesting essay about ChatGPT, a virtual tour of an MIT lab, and a video series about the meaning crisis and how to escape from it. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Guns Germs and Steel]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Mar 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Guns Germs and Steel tries to answer a single question: why did Europe come ahead technologically compared to the other continents and go on to dominate and exploit them? There were civilizations in other places long before.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zeroth Principle Thinking, Simulators, and Joscha Bach]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 26 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with essays on how to shape the future, my favorite talk from Joscha Bach, and an article describing what makes ChatGPT different from an AI security perspective. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Biology of Desire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 20 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Biology of Desire is a book diving into the neurobiology that underlies addiction.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Biotechnology, Democratizing AI and Spinoza]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with some bits and pieces on things happening at the intersection of biotech and AI, a video on Spinoza's philosophy, and an interview with Emad Mostaque, the founder of Stability AI. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Computational Selves, MinDVis and AI takeoff]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with wisdom from Eric Schmidt, a story of what AI takeoff might look like, and an awesome paper on a theory of computational selves. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Caves of Steel]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 26 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Caves of Steel by Isaac Asimov is a science fiction mystery novel set in a distant future where Earth's population lives in sprawling underground cities to protect themselves from environmental challenges.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[3D in the Browser, Neurons in a Petri Dish, and the Beauty of Splines]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/3-d-in-the-browser-neurons-in-a-petri-dish-and-the-beauty-of-splines</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a set of rules for life, work, and health, a paper on neurons living in a petri dish, a series of low-level networking tutorials, and more. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[ChatGPT, Neuralink, and Advice Against Procrastination]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/chat-gpt-neuralink-and-advice-against-procrastination</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Jan 2023 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with a list of the best textbooks, an animated video of why everything will be very different in the future, and a new podcast notes section. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Evolution of Everything]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/the-evolution-of-everything</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book has a lot of detailed notes, but overall I didn't like it that much. Many of the ideas are better covered in other works, even by the same author, such as The Red Queen. > Evolution is the best way of understanding how the human world changes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Richard Feynman; Ambition and How Sound Works]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/richard-feynman-ambition-and-how-sound-works</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to this edition of Live and Learn. This time with booknotes on Sam Harris's book Lying, a timelapse on how Salamanders grow and some travel photos. Enjoy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Collision Detection, Synthetic Biology and AI]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/collision-detection-synthetic-biology-and-ai</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 04 Dec 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to awesome stuff, from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter. This time with booknotes on Indistractable by Nir Eyal, the Michael Levin podcast with Lex Fridman and AI for the next era, an article by Sam Altman!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Creativity, AlphaTensor and Motivation]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/creativity-alpha-tensor-and-motivation</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 20 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Awesomeness from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter! This time with booknotes on Creativity Inc. by Ed Cadmull, the AlphaTensor paper by Deepmind, and an article about motivation and why we shouldn't rely on it. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Collision Detection in 2D]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[If you have ever played any video game in your life, you used algorithms that solve the hard problem of collision detection, without even knowing about it. The solutions are often ingenious and answer the question of "what do we need all this math for" beautifully.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Clippy, Resetting the Loop and Complexity]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/clippy-resetting-the-loop-and-complexity</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Nov 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Welcome to the Awesomeness from the last 2 weeks, bundled together in a newsletter! This time with learnings from building the Fractal Garden website, an explanation of the Krebs Cycle and some Midjourney Generations. As always I hope you enjoy this edition of Live and Learn!]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sketchplanations, AI and Armageddon]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/newsletters/sketchplanations-ai-and-armageddon</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is my first newsletter, *ever*. The idea of this newsletter is to send 1 photo, 1 book note, 1 post, 1 status update, 1 song and some links to awesome places on the internet. I hope you enjoy this first edition of Live and Learn.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Immune]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/immune</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A book about how the human immune system works. It goes over the different cell types and how they work together to fight off diseases of all kinds. The body is an incredibly machine, and even though the immune system is just a part of it, it's mindbogglingly complex.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Indistractable]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/indistractable</link>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 22 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A book about attention and techniques that help focusing our attention, when faced with the diversions of a modern life. It's explaining many basic ideas about how to live a more productive life, by restricting time spend mindlessly engaged with media in various ways. To me.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A practical intro to Vector Mathematics]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/vectors-101</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This post is an exploration of many different and important vector concepts. After reading it you should walk away with an understanding of how and why these operations work and where they could be useful — from collision detection to shader programming to 3D graphics.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Wealth of Nations]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/wealth-of-nations</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 20 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A classic that has shaped a lot of thinking in economics over the last centuries. Adam Smith describes how markets interact with one another and how countries should be governed so that the market can flourish. A central idea is tying these thoughts together - the invisible hand.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fractal Garden Learnings – Part 2]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/fractal-learnings-2</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is part 2 of a series of posts on building the Fractal Garden, my first 1 month project. In this post I will dive into the technical learnings and decisions that went into making the Fractal Garden website.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fractal Garden Learnings – Part 1]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/fractal-learnings-1</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Oct 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I finished my first 1-month project. During the process I learned a lot about how I approach work and this post is a reflection and documentation on the process. This is part 1 of a series of posts on building the Fractal Garden webpage.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Morning Meditation]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/morning-meditation</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 18 Sep 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[It's September now in Berlin, and it starts to get cold. The fields are still green and damp from the cold night. But the sun has retained its energy from the summer. When it comes out it evaporates the dew over the fields and meadows. Clouds are moving over the sky.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Problem at the Heart of Capitalism]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/the-problem-at-the-heart-of-capitalism</link>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I think something is wrong with our world and I have not seen this thought expressed anywhere else in quite that way yet. That's why I sat down to write this blog post. It will be a deep dive, covering lots of different topics, like social media, economics, neuroanatomy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Discourses and Selected Writings]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 22 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Epictetus is one of the great stoic writers and this book is a collection of his work. He emphasizes personal responsibility, virtue, and understanding what is within our control as the keys to a good life.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Being You]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Consciousness is something measurable and we are beginning to understand what it is. But there is still a lot left to learn and uncover. Theories like Integrated Information Theory (IIT) and the Free Energy Principle are promising starts.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Enough]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/enough</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 17 Jun 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a fun little read. It's about how we have lost the character values of the enlightened era and how that leads to slow corrosion of best practices in the market as well. It's about how all of this can be transformed back to resemble more how things have been.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Brain]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/the-brain</link>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 15 May 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Brain by David Eagleman dives deep into how our brains work, covering key insights of neuroscience, that tell the fascinating story of what makes us us. It is a story about how our brains are re-wiring themselves constantly.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Life 3.0]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/life-3-0</link>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Mar 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Max Tegmark wants the reader to think about the problems of AI safety and the thorny questions related to creating machines that surpass us in intelligence someday.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[From Bacteria to Bach and Back]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/booknotes/from-bacteria-to-bach-and-back</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is a book about a few very deep and important questions - how can physics give rise to life? And how can life give rise to intelligent, comprehending minds? The short answer to all of these questions is . . . evolution. The longer answer.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Complexity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 23 Jan 2022 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A bit too heavy on biographical details and the history of the Santa Fe institute, and not going deep enough into the weeds of complexity theory as I was hoping, when I first picked it up. This is a wonderful introduction to all the people that contributed to the field.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Oxygen]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book Nick Lane explores the profound impact that the oxygen molecule had on the history of life and how it changed everything. He covers a lot of ground, how the energy that oxygen makes possible to harvest lead to multicellularity.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Creativity Inc.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 30 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book moved me. Ed Catmull, one of the founders of Pixar shares the wisdom he gained while running this groundbreaking company, trying to innovate and make beautiful movies. It goes against the spirit of this book to summarize it, because the insights from the book.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rocheworld]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In the hard sci-fi novel Rocheworld, Robert L. Forward explores the scientific exploration of a distant star system by a crew of human scientists. Center to their exploration is the double planet system Rocheworld, two planets orbiting each other very closely.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Open AI's Codex]]></title>
            <link>https://ricos.site/posts/open-ai-codex</link>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 06 Oct 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A few days ago I watched the OpenAI Codex demo and I am still thinking about what to do because it means that I will lose my job as a software engineer pretty soon. (I revisited this question later in The Answer to AI's 600 Billion Dollar Question.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Decisions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 03 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Decisions are the most important thing in life. And yet there is a fundamental problem with decisions. . . You don't make them. . . If you had to sum up your life in the most concise way possible, it would all be about the decisions that you have made. And yet.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Betting Heavy when convinced]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Sep 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This article is a consortium of things that I think about how or why to invest money. My opinion on investing is fundamentally split, between thinking of it as a waste of time and a necessary evil, and this post is going to explore investment advice in both directions.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Beginning of Infinity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Beginning of Infinity is jam-packed with amazing ideas. It's so dense, that these book notes are a source of a vast amount of thoughts and models of how the world works. To me, this book is simply insane.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Fabric of Reality]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Fabric of Reality presents a bold, interdisciplinary exploration of the nature of reality. In it Deutsch tries to merge concepts from quantum physics, epistemology, computation, and evolutionary biology into a singular explanation of the world.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Rework]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 12 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is about how to build a business in a non-traditional way. It is based on the experiences of the authors founding and running their company 37signals and how they did that from first principles. Rework promotes a lean, efficient.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bhagavad Gita]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Aug 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Bhagavad Gita is one of the most influential books in history I would argue. And for that reason alone it's worth reading, to get a broader idea of different cultures and see where ideas come from and how old some of them are.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Tao Te Ching]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A small book filled with wisdom from long ago. Written in China it focuses on the idea of the Tao, the underlying force of nature, of the universe. It is about aligning yourself with Tao and working in the same direction as it, without resisting it.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Almanack of Naval Ravikant]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 27 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Almanack of Naval Ravikant is one of the best books I have ever read and one I am going to re-read over and over and over again, simply because it is packed so full of wisdom that it's unbelievable. A collection of quotes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Poor Charlie's Almanack]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I think the main insight from Poor Charlie's Almanack is that one needs to have strong mental models in order to deal with the world effectively. This is analogous to an idea from Principles by Ray Dalio.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Enigma of Reason]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 Jun 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Enigma of Reason by Dan Sperber and Hugo Mercier offers a provocative and scientifically grounded exploration of the human capacity for reasoning. The authors challenge the traditional view that reason evolved to help individuals make better decisions or discover truth.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Lying]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 09 May 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A very short book. It might take you an hour or so to read in full, so the summary is quite short as well. Lying (intentional deception) erodes trust on both sides. It damages relationships in unforeseen ways, needs maintenance and leads to psychological stress.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Antifragile]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nicholas Nassim Taleb writes a lot of good books. This is one of them. In Antifragile, Taleb tries to push one central idea: The difference between Fragile and Antifragile Systems. Antifragile systems learn and improve over time.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Neuroplasticity]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 18 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book provides an accessible and comprehensive exploration of neuroplasticity => the brain's remarkable ability to reorganize and adapt by forming, pruning, enhancing, weakening, destroying and sculpting neural connections throughout life.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Writing down what I know]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Something that I am playing with as an idea, is to write down all of the things I know and the knowledge I accumulate in the form of blog posts. The idea behind this is to present a synthesis of what I am learning intermingled with thoughts of my own, that come up while learning.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Disturbing the Universe]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Mar 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Disturbing the universe is an autobiography written and lived by Freeman Dyson, who worked on the Los Alamos team alongside Richard Feynman.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to solve it]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is an attempt at describing basic problem-solving strategies. Based on puzzles and mathematical riddles the author tries to teach the general approach of problem-solving.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The beauty of being alive.]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 16 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[I am sitting alone in my room. It is dark outside and my speakers play some soft and mellow music. FKJ, beautiful piano, with some techno mixed into it. The video is from one of my favorite performances.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Structures]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 12 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is an engaging exploration of structural engineering and the science behind why everday buildings, like bridges, roadways, or churches don't collapse in on themselves.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Algorithms to Live By]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Feb 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Algorithms from computer science are a source of knowledge that can be used to improve our lives. Problems like optimal stopping, exploration vs. exploitation tradeoffs, or how to sort things, are ubiquitous not just in computer science but also in real life. To me.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Anthem]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 15 Jan 2021 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A rather short book about a dystopian world. The people in this world live miserable lives in small rural communities. Every little bit of individuality is artificially repressed and held down. They have forgotten words such as "I", "my" and "yours" everything is "us" and "ours".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six Not-So-Easy Pieces]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Six Not-So-Easy Pieces by Richard Feynman is a collection of more advanced physics lectures taken from his famous Feynman Lectures on Physics. This companion to Six Easy Pieces looks into more challenging and foundational topics of modern physics.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Diamond Age]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 29 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Diamond Age is as crazy as Neal Stephensons other books. It is set in a slightly dystopian world, where everybody has access to nanotechnology and people can print anything they want from "the feed". The world is divided into classes. Each has it's own zone of influence.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Snow Crash]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 25 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson is a fast-paced, dystopian cyberpunk novel that combines high-tech intrigue, ancient history, and biting social commentary. Set in a near-future world dominated by corporate-controlled city states, the story follows a hacker and swordsman.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Permutation City]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 17 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The story is about how computation is supreme, and how reality might be a construct that is very different from what we think it is. The crazy idea in this book is that a simulation might continue running, if it is sufficiently complex enough.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Slaughterhouse Five]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 09 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut is a darkly satirical and anti-war novel that follows the life of Billy Pilgrim, a disoriented and passive man who becomes "unstuck in time. " The book weaves together themes of war, trauma, free will.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Brave New World]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 05 Dec 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Brave New World is a novel set in a dystopian society, where people are replacable cogs in a machine–everyone is constantly bubbly, happy and social, because they take a drug called Soma.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nineteen Eighty Four]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A dystopian novel, set in a totalitarian society where "the Party" completely controls everything its citizens do. The idea of "big brother" constantly watching you originates from this book. In the world of 1984 every thought of disobedience is a punishable offence.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Six Easy Pieces]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a concise and accessible introduction to fundamental principles of physics by Richard Feynman, drawn from his famous Feynman Lectures on Physics. This book distills key topics into six chapters, making complex ideas understandable to a broad audience.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Surely you are Joking Mr. Feynman]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is a biography of Richard Feynman, detailing his quirky character, what got him into physics and how he became entangled into the Manhattan project in Los Alamos, where he helped to build the atomic bomb.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Art of Learning]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 23 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Mastery is something everybody can achieve if working hard towards it. And the way towards mastery is rewarding and beautiful. A life of striving, is a life well lived and worth living. What we strive towards is not important, the striving itself.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gödel's Proof]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Gödel's Proof by Ernest Nagel and James Newman is a concise and accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's incompleteness theorem, which is among the most important and profound results in mathematics.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Permanent Record]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 03 Oct 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Permanent Record is a memoir that details Snowden's journey from growing up in a patriotic, government-oriented family to becoming a whistleblower who exposed the U. S. government's mass surveillance programs. The book provides insights into Snowden's personal life.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Engines of Creation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 18 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book heralds the arriving of nanotechnology in the future and tries to show the endless possibilities that could exist, once we have mastered atomic manufacturing. It proposes to build structures out of carbon, so that they have extremely strong bonds.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Predictably Irrational]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 05 Aug 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[To me this book can be mostly summarized by its own title and subtitle. It's about how people often behave irrationally, but how there is still method to the madness. We are not just irrational, we are predictably so.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Manual for Living]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Manual for Living (also known as the Enchiridion) by Epictetus is a concise guide to Stoic philosophy and how to live a good, fulfilling life. It provides practical advice on how to achieve inner peace, resilience.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Letters from a Stoic]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 08 Jul 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Complaining against fate and what the future holds, is not valuable. You should instead take everything the world throws at you with grace and humility. Staying in one place, reading the same books, not jumping around, is a source of strength and personal growth.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Guide to The Good Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 28 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Stoicism is a philosophy that is concerned with one question: How to live a good life? It's about being resilient against outside influences, mentally and physically. And about preparing for the worst, keeping death in mind, but being content with whatever happens.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why do I like traveling?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Reading through the notes I wrote while I was traveling for the first time I can not help myself but wonder at the feelings surging through me. A sense of wonder fills my chest and my mind drifts away. . . Far far away into the jungles of Sri Lanka and the mountains of Nepal.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Man and His Symbols]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 23 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Man and His Symbols by Carl Jung is a fascinating exploration of the world of symbols and their role in the human unconscious. Symbols come up everywhere, in dreams, in culture, in art, in thoughts, in conversations, in the ways that we live our lives.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Gödel, Escher, Bach]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 19 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is one of my most favorite books of all time. Tough to read, even harder to summarize. But worth to read, and then re-read. And re-read. The dialogues where the turtoise discusses important riddles and philosophical questions alone, make this book worthwhile.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 4 Hour Work Week]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 01 Jun 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich by Tim Ferriss is a self-help and productivity book that challenges traditional notions of work and success.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Better Angels of Our Nature]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 26 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Better Angels of Our Nature is a book by Steven Pinker that argues that violence in the world has been in decline over time. The world is becoming a more peaceful place, and this is due to a number of factors, including the rise of the nation-state, the spread of democracy.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 18 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers, Robert Sapolsky explains the neurobiological underpinnings of how stress works in the human body.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Built to Last]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 10 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Companies that are built to last have things in common. And this book looked at a lot of companies successful over longer time frames to find out what. One idea is that business ideas don't matter.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 May 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance is a classic dealing with the philosophical idea of what Quality is and how it is necessary in our world for anything to work. It tries to show how both art and engineering can go hand in hand.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Good To Great]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 23 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In Good to Great Jim Collins looks at what makes good companies great. For this Jim Collins and his team analyzed a lot of different great companies and looked at what they had in common. They then identified key ideas that all the great companies share. So.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Improvement as the Purpose of Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Apr 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[What is life? Life is the continuation and spreading of complex patterns of information throughout time and space. Life is the process that turns matter into more of itself. But what does that have to do with improvement.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Robots and Empire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Robots and Empire by Isaac Asimov is a science fiction novel that serves as a bridge between Asimov's Robot series and his Foundation series. The novel explores the tension between humans and robots as they navigate political, ethical.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Tipping Point]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 23 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell explores the phenomenon of how small changes can have a big impact and lead to significant shifts in society. Malcolm Gladwell identifies three key factors that contribute to a tipping point: the Law of the Few, the Stickiness Factor.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A sense of Flow]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An idea that shapes my view of the world is the experience of flow. Flow is losing yourself in an activity. It's about doing something that is just on the edge of your abilities. Something that pushes you. Not too little, not too much.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Computer Games]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 17 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Are computer games a valuable way to spend my time? At some level I feel they are, but why do I get a bad feeling when playing too much? Why don't I get such feelings when traveling or listening to music or playing the piano.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Fundamental Problems]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 16 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When I think about life there are many problems I have, problems that I need to solve, if I want to live a fulfilled and good life. And I think that many people share these problems because they are fundamental problems.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[So many awesome things to do]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 10 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are so many things in this highly complex world, that humans can devote their time to, so many new things and skills to be learned, so much to discover, to do, to invent. . . It is insane.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Sense of Progress]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Mar 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Most people think of progress as a good thing. We want to be better than we were before, we want to push our limits, and we want to invent, create and thrive. We have a sense of progress, and that sense makes us feel good. But why.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Atomic Habits]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 14 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Habits are a powerful way to shape behavior towards living a better life. I incorporated many of these ideas into my own productivity system. Atomic Habits are about preparing yourself and the environment for a better life.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Essentialism]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Focus on what is important and declutter your life. The title summarizes this book almost perfectly. Basically declutter your life from things you don't need, focusing on what you want to have in your life. And try to reduce the amount of things that you want to a minimum.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Deep Work]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 28 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Deep Work is the most important work you want to do, but it is also the hardest work to do and make time for. It's easy to seem busy and be always working and stressed out, without making any progress. That's because one is not doing enough deep work.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Outliers]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 Jan 2020 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the book that popularized the ten-thousand hours idea. The main idea behind the rule is this: There exists a level of mastery that can be achieved for any kind of subject, after having deliberately practiced and studied it for at least ten-thousand hours.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Why We Sleep]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 29 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Why We Sleep is an exploration of why and how humans need to sleep and an ode to all the beneficial aspects that sleeping has on our health. Healthy sleep (enough and good quality) is probably the single biggest contributor to a good life that we know of.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Notes from Underground]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 25 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Notes from Underground by Fyodor Dostoevsky is an exploration of existentialism, free will, and the human condition. It is about choosing to withdraw from daily life, to not do anything because the world is fundamentally flawed. The novel is narrated by an unnamed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Double]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 24 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky is a psychological novella that explores themes of identity and self-perception through its story. It tells the tale of Yakov Petrovich Golyadkin, a government clerk in St. Petersburg.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Read a Book]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 18 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[How to Read a Book is a Book about how to retain more from reading texts - it is about reading a book, not for the sake of passing time but for the sake of gaining insights from it. To do that it details 4 different levels of reading.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blink]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 07 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Malcolm Gladwell details the same idea as in another book, but with less insights and clarity, but more stories and fluff than Daniel Kahnemann in his Thinking Fast and Slow. The main idea of the book is simple yet profound. You have a part of your "brain".]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dictators Handbook]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 04 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Dictator’s Handbook: Why Bad Behavior is Almost Always Good Politics by Bruce Bueno de Mesquita and Alastair Smith is a provocative exploration of the rules that govern political power. The authors argue that whether in democracies, dictatorships, or corporations.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Meditations]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 01 Dec 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The contents of the mind are within our control, whereas the outside environment is not. Stoics become happy by focusing on and learning how to control their internal state, no matter the external state. Once this control exists, the outside does not matter anymore.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Man's search for Meaning]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 25 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Man's Search for Meaning by Viktor Frankl is a profound and influential book that reflects on Frankl's experiences as a Holocaust survivor and the psychological insights he gained from them. This book to me, puts into perspective how good life is, almost all the time.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Alchemist]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 14 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is a magical little book, about traveling, about life, about spirituality and about self-discovery. The story follows a shepherd boy Santiago, who embarks on a journey to pursue his Personal Legend to find his life's purpose. Set in a mystical, symbolic world.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Principles]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 01 Nov 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The book is split into 3 parts - the personal history of Ray Dalio, his work principles and his life principles. To me, the most interesting part of the book is, where he details his life principles. Beautiful ideas and mental models of how to live a good life fill the pages.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Forward The Foundation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 21 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The last book of the 7 foundation novels. It's about how Hari Seldon develops his plan and psychohistory. And how he has to deal with the power struggles of Galactic Politics and the Empire. In the process he loses everybody close to him, finally continuing almost alone.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Prelude to Foundation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hari Seldon first develops his mathematical idea of psychohistory and becomes the target of the Galactic Emperor because of it. The emperor thinks he could use this as a tool to gain better political control over his empire.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foundation and Earth]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 15 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is a Sequel to the Foundation Series. Some people from the Foundation find out that, according to their knowledge, there has to be a point of origin for humanity. A planet, somewhere in the galaxy, from where all humans came from.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foundation's Edge]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 11 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The leaders of the Second Fondation are worried that another "power" is trying to push along the Hari Seldon plan, benefiting instead of destroying it. Yet, they are worried and want to know who and why they are doing it, and send out a mission to the closest lead.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Second Foundation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 08 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hari Seldon's plan is rumored to have secretly involved not only the scientificly minded foundation to preserve knowledge and steer humanity into a better and brighter future, but also a Second Foundation, one where the people are rumored to have magic powers.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foundation and Empire]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[As the Empire is dying and the Foundation is gaining more power, due to their advancement of understanding in science and Engineering, the two factions struggle over power and fight against each other. A new ruler in the Empire, seems to win that struggle in his favor.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Foundation]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 04 Oct 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is Part 1 in the series. The Foundation is about a galactic empire that's about to end, and a mathematician that calculates that this is going to happen, who then goes on to devise a plan of creating a "Foundation" that keeps science and knowledge alive.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mindset]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 05 Sep 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[There are two mindsets – growth and fixed mindset. Growth Mindset is the one you want to have. It's enabling you to learn, and to achieve mastery over time. The fixed mindset on the other hand, prevents you from challenging yourself.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Remote]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 20 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[A rehash of learnings from the inner workings at 37signals. Basically, remote work is good for everyone involved and therefore it is what people should be doing.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Behave]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Hands down one of the best books I have ever read. I very very strongly recommend picking up a copy. Robert Sapolsky is one of the most knowledgeable people on the topic of human behavior and this book is a tour de force display of that knowledge.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 01 Aug 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Structure of Scientific Revolutions by Thomas Kuhn challenges traditional views of scientific progress as a linear, cumulative process. Kuhn introduces the concept of paradigm shifts to describe the sudden.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Grit]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 25 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Grit is a branch book, exploring one core idea, namely that of "Grit" over and over again from different perspectives. The main takeaway is that the character quality of grit - others might call it persistence, perseverance or resilience - in Finland they call it Sisu.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Zero To One]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 15 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of the best books in existence. Highly creative, highly unique, and extremely thought-provoking. How startups work, and how they don't. Why good ideas are important, and how to find them, and why we have to build the future ourselves, or else it won't happen.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Influence]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 08 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion by Robert B. Cialdini is a groundbreaking book that explores the psychological principles behind how people are persuaded. Cialdini, a social psychologist.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Flow]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 02 Jul 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Chess, learning, climbing, swimming, playing music, coding, parkour, conversations, skiing, philosophizing, proving mathematical theorems, painting and a host of other activities can lead to the same cognitive and mental state => Flow.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Superintelligence]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 30 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[When AI takes off and becomes more intelligent than Humans, there are a lot of scenarios that are potentially wiping out humans. This is a detailled analysis of how these scenarios might unfold, discussing strategies and ways to potentially avoid them. The main takeaway.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Momo]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 12 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[One of my favorite books of all time. I grew up reading Michael Ende, but this is one of the books, which changes it's meaning as you grow up. It's about appreciating the small, but important things in life. Savouring the moments, and not forgetting.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Drive]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 07 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Drive introduces 3 concepts of motivation, motivation 1. 0, 2. 0 and 3. 0 and argues that we are thinking about using motivation the wrong way. Essentially, intrinsic motivation is what matters most in modern day tasks, and that is what he terms motivation 3. 0.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Shantaram]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 04 Jun 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Shantaram is a wonderful book. It details the story of somebody who fled from a prison in Australia and made his way to India, where he found shelter in the gangster underworld of Mumbai and started to live his life there. It's a magical exploration of what makes India beautiful.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Chaos]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 27 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Chaos: Making a New Science is a non-fiction book by James Gleick that introduced the principles and early development of chaos theory to the public. In it he details the history of chaos theory.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Black Swan]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 22 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Nicholas Nassim Taleb at his best. A little angry on the state of the world, and knowing that he often knows better. To me the most memorable idea from this book is the allegory of the Turkey.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[12 Rules for Life]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 10 May 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[12 Rules for Life by Jordan Peterson is a book about how to live a good life. The most memorable thing about it is that you should have a resemblance of order within your life. Because without order, everything else quickly falls to pieces and problems arise. And problems hurt.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Finite and Infinite Games]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Mon, 29 Apr 2019 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Humans play all kinds of games with each other and with themselves. Most of human activity can be looked at through this lens of "games that we play". There are status games, money games, games of friendship and family. Games can be divided into two broad groups.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Elon Musk]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 03 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[An incredible biography of the life of "the raddest man alive" - Elon Musk. To me the most important takeaway from this book is this: If you want to have an amazing future, you have to go out and build it yourself. No matter what it takes.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Sapiens]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sat, 02 Jun 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Sapiens is a book about how humanity became what it is today. It's a book about history, about the big picture view of how we got here. In answering this question, it shows four major revolutions that shaped our history: the Cognitive Revolution, the Agricultural Revolution.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Life, the Universe and Everything]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Life, the Universe and Everything is the third book in Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy series, continuing the comedic and absurd adventures of Arthur Dent and his friends across the cosmos. In this installment, the stakes are higher.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Mostly Harmless]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this last book of the trilogy in five parts, Douglas Adams answers many of the questions still left open by the other books, in a grand finale. Known for its darker and more existential tone compared to the other books in the series.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[So Long and Thanks for All the Fish]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 23 May 2018 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[So Long and Thanks for All the Fish is the second to last installment of the famous Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Series. The title is the message that the dolphins left to the humans before they teleported away from the planet before it got destroyed.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Book Thief]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 20 Oct 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The Book Thief by Markus Zusak is one of my favorite books of all time. It is a story, written from the perspective of death, who is narrating the events of the life of a little girl Liesel. Liesel grows up in the middle of Nazi Germany with a new family.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Travel the World on 50$ a Day]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 06 Aug 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book is worth it if you don't yet know how to travel on a budget and still need that paradigm shift of: "Oh wait, you can travel the world while spending less money than what you would have spent when you stayed at home in Europe or the US" If however.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Blood Music]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 06 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Greg Bear writes some of the best sci-fi out there, and this is some of his best work. Blood Music, without spoiling anything, is about different forms of intelligence, about something alien to us, about biotechnology and experiment.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Atlas Shrugged]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 16 Jun 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[The main idea of this book is that Rational Egoism is virtuous and necessary. We need to take accountability of our own future. When doing so, we improve the future for everybody. Out of egoism flows altruism. But the book packages and weaves this idea into a gripping story.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[But How Do It Know?]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 10 May 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This book aims to explain and demistify how a computer works under the hood. It tries to remove the layers and layers of abstraction and jargon that computer science has come up with over the years and focus instead on the core ideas of what a computer really does.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Singularity is Near]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Sun, 12 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[We are on a route of exponential growth in technology. At some point this growth will be so quick, that there will be extreme advances each and every day and eventually every hour. This point coincides with the invention of general AI.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Starquake]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Thu, 02 Feb 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is the second part to a series, it starts with The Dragons Egg. In this science fiction novel humans explore a neutron star and find life on it. The catch is, the life on the neutron star experiences time a lot differently. They live extremely fast.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Dragon's Egg]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Fri, 27 Jan 2017 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[In this book, humans plan and execute a scientific mission to a neutron star, where they discover, that on the planet of the neutron star exists a species of life. This species however, lives orders of magnitude faster than humans.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[7 Habits of Highly Effective People]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 17 Aug 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Seven Habits is one of the most influential books I have read in my whole life. I think it's the best self-help book out there and if internalized and incorporated into your life, the principles from this book have the potential to change your life drastically.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Snow Falling on Cedars]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Tue, 05 Apr 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[Snow Falling on Cedars follows the complex relationships between Kabuyo Miyamoto, Hatsue Imada and Ishmael Chambers. In doing so, the novel weaves together themes of love, prejudice, and the lingering effects of World War II.]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[How to Win Friends and Influence People]]></title>
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            <pubDate>Wed, 16 Mar 2016 00:00:00 GMT</pubDate>
            <description><![CDATA[This is one of the best self-help books in existence. The insights are incredibly powerful ideas about how humans interact with one another. The title puts a bad wrap on the whole book because it makes it seem to be about manipulation. But in reality.]]></description>
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