Join 📚 Josh Beckman's Highlights
A batch of the best highlights from what Josh's read, .
The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on the most common form of the Major System, mentioned above: Suh, Tuh, Nuh, Muh, Ruh, Luh, Shuh, Cuh, Fuh, Puh.
Major system for remembering digits and numbers. Use the consonants to choose words and make sentences to remember a string of numbers.
Major System | Art of Memory
artofmemory.com
And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help with people’s writing, make suggestions, or generate text that’s useful for various kinds of documents or interactions. But when it comes to setting up things that have to be perfect, machine learning just isn’t the way to do it—much as humans aren’t either.
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT
stephenwolfram.com
The report said that for every $1 of new global wealth earned by a person in the bottom 90%in the past two years, each billionaire gained roughly $1.7m. Despite small falls in 2022, the combined fortune of billionaires had increased by $2.7bn a day. Pandemic gains came after a decade when both the number and wealth of billionaires had doubled.
Tax and/or Eat the Rich
Doug Belshaw
...catch up on these, and many more highlights
Readwise