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💰 The Rapper 50 Cent, Adjusted for Inflation
A clever fusion of humor, data, and cultural commentary — turning economic statistics into a playful digital meme.
A minimalist web project that humorously recalculates the rapper 50 Cent’s name based on inflation, showing the new value as ‘1.09 Cent’. It’s a witty, data-inspired joke blending economics and pop culture.
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🧠 Andrej Karpathy – AGI is still a decade away
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🤖 Benjie’s Humanoid Olympic Games
An imaginative and technically sharp look at robotic benchmarking that fuses fun and research while revealing the real-world hurdles of human-like motion and perception.
This article introduces the ‘Humanoid Olympic Games’ — a series of robotic challenges testing humanoid robots in tasks like folding laundry, opening doors, and using tools. It examines progress in learning-from-demonstration methods and where human dexterity still outperforms machines, promoting innovation in manipulation, sensing, and autonomy.
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🎮 Flight Path – GPU Instanced Rendering
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🔤 The World’s Fastest Scrabble Program (1988)
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