Author: Jack Slater
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You Gotta See This Video by Sarah Teng
There’s so much more to Iraq than what TV, movies, and games have shown us. I really appreciate getting a glimpse of this place and its people from Sarah Teng. She has more about her trip in this write-up at Petapixel.
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Duolingo Switches from Hearts to Energy; Adds Chess
I’ve been complaining about how Duolingo punishes users for mistakes for a long time now, they’re now moving from hearts that you lose when you make a mistake, to an energy mechanic according to this article from Jay Peters writing for The Verge: “Under the new system, you’ll spend one unit of energy to complete…
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Duolingo Re-confirms: “Slop Tasty, MMM Slop!”
Yesterday Duolingo’s CEO Luis Von Ahn re-confirmed that the slop is yummy in a post to Linkedin that was also sent to the entire company: “I’ve said this in Q&As and many meetings, but I want to make it official: Duolingo is going to be AI-first. AI is already changing how work gets done. It’s…
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Cherry Ends German Keyboard Switch Production
Cherry claims to be the oldest company making keyboards. They invented the MX keyboard switch standard that the majority of mechanical keyboard switches are based on, and have been producing computer keyboards in Germany since 1973. Three days ago Cherry announced they’re ending production in Germany and moving it to China: “The restructuring concept includes,…