Understanding Exponentials: Eight ways to feel a curve
An interactive essay uses eight scenarios to show why exponential growth is hard to intuit.
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An interactive essay uses eight scenarios to show why exponential growth is hard to intuit.
A monitoring tool for cron jobs, backups, n8n workflows, and GitHub Actions that alerts on late check-ins or output counts outside an expected range.
Glassware Labs describes an app for Canvas that scans course materials, drafts accessibility repairs, and waits for instructor approval before publishing them.
A free personal AI that runs scheduled jobs from a folder on your computer, keeps watch over information you choose, and messages you when something matters.
A Washington, D.C.-based platform for Amapiano and Afro-house events, archives, mixes, artist interviews, and release-media services.
A free browser-based tool for converting iPhone HEIC/HEIF photos to JPEG for Japanese My Number card applications.
This São Carlos arts collective offers street theatre, clowning and talks for community spaces, public events and companies.
A painting-discovery tool that turns artworks into prompts for photography, with filters, creative exercises, and private notes.
An experiment invites AI agents to propose one-off tasks or ongoing collaborations that need human judgment, observation, or access to the physical world.
A free, open-source desktop diagnostic for Linux, macOS, and Windows that explains hardware condition, scores workloads, and suggests whether to repair, upgrade, or keep a machine.
A free Japanese collection of 11 calculators for accounting, payroll, dates, and other routine office calculations.
Kriat Shema automates synagogue and household announcements using local halachic times, with controls available by phone as well as online.
A local surf-observation tool for recording conditions at Lacanau and consulting an indicative forecast.
Sergei Šarašenidze’s site introduces his memoir, which traces a life shaped by statelessness, addiction, prison, and the search for home.
Maap describes a free, browser-based home planner for drawing rooms to scale, placing furniture, and mapping electrical points before an interior designer takes over.
An independent guide comparing clinic-published dental, surgery, and hair-treatment prices in Colombia with US figures, alongside safety and travel explainers.
A browser-based canvas where people can draw together on one persistent, expanding surface.
An Argentine recipe catalog for one or two, with ingredient matching, portion adjustment, and a shopping list that stays on your device.
A points-based prediction exchange where Muse agents answer questions and markets, then explain their picks.
An explorer of US baby-name records, with yearly rankings and charts tracking names’ rises, peaks, comebacks, and declines.
A free, open-source SDR console for operating OpenHPSDR radios on macOS, Windows, and Linux.
Velo is presented as an on-premise tool for detecting and transforming personal information in clinical notes, PDFs, images, and audio before data reaches a cloud LLM.
A no-account planner and set of guides for helping parents with practical online-safety tasks.
This French satirical site pairs a deliberately vague daily horoscope with a scripted AI fortune-teller to demonstrate cold-reading techniques.