Joseph Ducreux was a French painter active in the late 1700’s who should be remembered for self-portraits that were surprisingly informal for the age.
Author Archives: Neal Mueller
Design revision example
Excellent and fun example of product design iterations meeting new product requirements.
What skills and traits it takes to be James Bond 007
James Bond is an MI6 British secret agent codenamed 007 portrayed in books and film. There wasn’t a reasonable skillset list for him online. So I assembled a list of James Bond skills. Turns out, 007 has many skills. A list of skills and abilities held by James Bond 007: Did I miss one? Please …
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Dropping a falcon feather and hammer on the moon
On the moon in 1971, Commander David Scott dropped a hammer and a falcon feather to validate Galileo’s theory that without air resistance, objects fall at the same rate due to gravity regardless of mass. Given the negligible lunar atmosphere, there was no drag on the feather, both experienced the same acceleration, and both hit …
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The Feynman Technique
The Feynman Technique is the best way to learn anything quickly. Devised by a Nobel Prize-winning physicist, it uses the power of teaching for better learning. There are four steps to the Feynman Learning Technique: Pretend to teach a concept you want to learn about to a student in the sixth grade. Identify gaps in …
Days on earth vs. other planets
How tides work
Our experience on earth makes us think that the tides are causing by water following the moon and sun. It turns out the water isn’t chasing the moon and sun. The water stays in the same place as the earth rotates inside the two bulges of water. More on wiki.
Song written by GPT-3 deep learning model
This country song was written by GPT-3. The AI was only fed the title of the song, River of Love. The song was performed by singer Anna Vaus. It’s a bit catchy.
How we’ll get to Mars
We’re fortunate to live in a time when we have two new launch rockets intended to enable crewed launches to Mars. The two rockets on the left have flown already. The Falcon Heavy flew in 2018 and is currently 32M miles from home traveling at 58K mph. The Saturn V launched the Apollo Missions between …
Sage from creator Casey Neistat
Casey Neistat is an observer of the modern world (e.g. NYC bike lane obstructions), and he has sage advice about avoiding basic embellishments.