Snip!t channels - Alan Dix

The peak–end rule is a psychological heuristic in which people judge an experience largely based on how they felt at its peak (i.e., its most intense point) and at its end, rather than based on the total sum or average of every moment of ...

The first piece of advice was: “You should mostly eat food you know is healthy. There is no magic food.”
And the second? That was: “You should also occasionally let yourself eat delicious food you know isn’t healthy. Otherwise, what...

It has happened to most people waiting for a specific bus in a busy city - you stand around for ages only for three to turn up at once.
This phenomenon is known as "bus bunching", and it can be annoying.
To try to alleviate the problem, UK ...

We could call this strange geography created by technology “AirSpace.” It’s the realm of coffee shops, bars, startup offices, and co-live / work spaces that share the same hallmarks everywhere you go:

My theory was that all the physical places interconnected by apps had a way of resembling one another. In the case of the cafes, the growth of Instagram gave international cafe owners and baristas a way to follow one another in real time an...

Harry Potter, Elon Musk, Beyoncé, Super Mario and Vladimir Putin.

These are just some of the millions of artificial intelligence (AI) personas you can talk to on Character.ai - a popular platform where anyone can create chatbots based on ...

Golden has been designed from the start to encourage a deep, extensive view on knowledge.

Seshat: Global History Databank
✓ the most current and comprehensive body of knowledge about human history
✓ collects what is currently known about the social and political organization of human societies over time
✓ offers the means ...

Artificial intelligence allowed Pakistan’s former prim... Khan to campaign from behind bars on Monday, with a voic... opposition leader giving an impassioned speech on his be...

The world’s first comprehensive laws to regulate artif... have been agreed in a landmark deal after a marathon 37-... between the European Parliament and EU member states.

the court held that the exclusion was not invoked — s... not “a program for a computer … as such.” The UKIP... issued guidance (available here) confirming that:
“Patent examiners should not object to inventions invo ...

Besides altering the quality of our memories, switching ... can influence people’s financial decision-making and t... moral dilemmas. By speaking a second language, we can ev... rational, more open-minded and better equipped to deal w...

Globally, renewables account for about one third of elec... generation—and that share is rising.

The more our media channels are flooded with deep fakes ... various kinds, the more we have the feeling of sinking i... quicksand.

“At this point, Big Tech companies need to be saved fr... companies and their top AI developers are well aware of ... generative AI. But they are in a competitive arms race a... themselves unable to slow down,”

The main emphasis of the project was to bring together a... historical mapping into a publicly accessible web map en...

According to Tolkien, a eucatastrophe in a story often h... darkest moment. When all seems lost – when the enemy s... – a sudden "joyous turn" for the better can emerge.

“in the 1950s, 12% of high-school students perceived t... important person’ – by the 1990s, 80% did.”

To study riffle shuffles rigorously, Diaconis used a pow... tool called a Markov chain.

Olfactory interactions and interfaces are extremely rele... of use and application contexts, from entertainment to r... supporting learning experiences to enhancing the creatio... experiences such as in virtual and augmented environments.

A peaceful movement fights against violence and oppressi... nothing much changes. Then, everything changes.
Why do many complex systems – cultures, environments, ...
There's a tool that can help us understand this: attract ...

The Gough Map test is internationally-renowned as one of... to show Britain in a geographically-recognizable form. Y... questions remain of how the map was made, who made it, w...
This website presents an interactive, searchable editio ...

Leaflet is the leading open-source JavaScript library fo... interactive maps. Weighing just about 42 KB of JS, it h... features most developers ever need.
Leaflet is designed with simplicity, performance and usa ...

‘I can’t remember anything’ is a common complaint ... it because we rely so heavily on our smartphones? And do... and distractions stop us forming new memories?

An algorithm apparently generates these light patterns. Be better if an artist had?

The engineer compiled a transcript of the conversations,... point he asks the AI system what it is afraid of.

We've taken object-based media to the next level by supp... creators with tools and workflows that enable real-world... responsive object-based experiences

We don't need a complicated HTML structure. We are only ... simple div, with a couple of class names, and we're goin... for each of the following positions: top, right, left, b...

Django was invented to meet fast-moving newsroom deadlin... satisfying the tough requirements of experienced web dev...
Why Django?
With Django, you can take web applications from concept ...