“The cave you fear to enter holds the treasure that you seek.”
—Joseph Campbell
No more fillings as dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment | Society | The Guardian
TL;DR: Here’s how it works…
The new treatment, called Electrically Accelerated and Enhanced Remineralisation (EAER), accelerates the natural movement of calcium and phosphate minerals into the damaged tooth.A two-step process first prepares the damaged area of enamel, then uses a tiny electric current to push minerals into the repair site.
Source: No more fillings as dentists reveal new tooth decay treatment | Society | The Guardian
Why you should treat your partner like a guest.
Imagine the beauty in a relationship when you’d treat each other with the respect you both deserve.
fogus: The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
A strategy for brainstorming projects and businesses: The 100:10:1 method (read on for TL;DR).
- Write down 100 wacky ideas
- Make a MVP for 10 of those ideas
- Fully develop one of those ideas into a legitimate software release
At some point during the 10-stage, one of the projects will inevitably turn into something valuable.
Source: fogus: The 100:10:1 method: my approach to open source
RECONSIDER — Medium
This thoughtful piece by DHH is the Basecamp ethos distilled down to a pithy rallying cry against startup & VC culture.
Part of the problem seems to be that nobody these days is content to merely put their dent in the universe. No, they have to fucking own the universe. It’s not enough to be in the market, they have to dominate it. It’s not enough to serve customers, they have to capture them.
Source: RECONSIDER — Medium
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.” — Glenn Clark
I’m rather enjoying my new tab page today… via Momentum (Chrome Extension)
“If you wish to travel far and fast, travel light. Take off all your envies, jealousies, unforgiveness, selfishness, and fears.”
— Glenn Clark
Image source: https://500px.com/photo/95204889/balloons-over-bagan-by-sebastian-weiss
The best way to learn math is to learn how to fail productively – Quartz
TL;DR: struggling with a problem before being told the answer makes you learn better.
Students who are presented with unfamiliar concepts, asked to work through them, and then taught the solution significantly outperform those who are taught through formal instruction and problem-solving.
Source: The best way to learn math is to learn how to fail productively – Quartz
What a Deep Neural Network thinks makes the best #selfie
TL;DR: the best selfies are from women, with long hair, often B&W, with letterbox-type borders. The included picture is the top 100 ranked images.
To take a good selfie, Do:
- Be female. Women are consistently ranked higher than men. In particular, notice that there is not a single guy in the top 100.
- Face should occupy about 1/3 of the image. Notice that the position and pose of the face is quite consistent among the top images. The face always occupies about 1/3 of the image, is slightly tilted, and is positioned in the center and at the top. Which also brings me to:
- Cut off your forehead. What’s up with that? It looks like a popular strategy, at least for women.Show your long hair. Notice the frequent prominence of long strands of hair running down the shoulders.
- Oversaturate the face. Notice the frequent occurrence of over-saturated lighting, which often makes the face look much more uniform and faded out. Related to that,
- Put a filter on it. Black and White photos seem to do quite well, and most of the top images seem to contain some kind of a filter that fades out the image and decreases the contrast.
- Add a border. You will notice a frequent appearance of horizontal/vertical white borders.
Source: What a Deep Neural Network thinks about your #selfie
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.” —John Henry Newman
“We can believe what we choose. We are answerable for what we choose to believe.”
—John Henry Newman
Source: Bit of News Daily Digest 🍑
The US just lifted a crushing burden on prison inmates and their families – Quartz
Well done, FCC! Making changes that will positively affect the lives of those still incarcerated and their families, while punishing greedy businesses.
Currently, phone calls often cost more than $1 per minute including surcharges—creating outsize profits for the $1.2 billion prison phone industry. Prisons … sign exclusive contracts with companies like Global Tel-Link, and receive a cut of the proceeds from each call, creating an incentive to raise rates as much as possible.
FCC commissioner Mignon Clyburn called the current system—which drains the resources of the United States’ 2.4 million mostly poor inmates and their families—”untenable, egregious and unconscionable.”
Source: The US just lifted a crushing burden on prison inmates and their families – Quartz