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Dec 15, 2022
(Thread) In the first What If? book, I answered a question about cooking a steak by dropping it from space. At one point, I commented—jokingly!—that if anyone put a steak in a hypersonic wind tunnel to gather better data, I’d love to see the video.

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After What If? came out, I was contacted by Tom Fisher and Thomas Rees, University of Manchester researchers studying hypersonic heat transfer. They had finished their wind tunnel experiments early, so they decided to head to the corner store, buy a steak, and gather some data.
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THREAD: The evolution of Pokémon cards through history, as generated by DALL·E 2

For starters, here’s what DALL·E 2 thinks 21st century Pokémon cards look like, using prompts like “A Pokémon card from 2001”
By changing the year in the prompt, we can ask for older Pokémon cards. These ones are from various years in the 1980s. #dalle2
Let’s keep going backward in time. Here are Pokémon cards of the 1970s #dalle2
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Jun 2, 2022
The DALL·E image generator can produce spectacular visuals, but really stumbles over text. As a result, the tourism posters it comes up with are extremely good. Visit scenic Colado! #dalle
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May 10, 2022
What If 2 comes out in 2^(e^(π/ϕ)) days! If you preorder a copy you’ll get it then: amazon.com/exec/obidos/AS…
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May 5, 2022
SEMANTLE NIGHTMARE ROUND

I went through the dataset behind the infuriating word game Semantle (semantle.com) to try to calculate what the hardest-to-guess words would be. If regular Semantle isn’t annoying enough for you, try solving these 10 nightmare words (thread):
These aren’t obscure or specialized words; just reasonably common words without many close synonyms. We’ll start with a pretty easy one—difficulty is subjective, but I think this one isn’t too bad.

1. semantle.com/?word=dGltaW5n…
I think #2 is also not too bad. They get harder after this.

2. semantle.com/?word=cGFydDQ1…
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2020 Election Map xkcd.com/2399
This map looks similar to some other election maps out there, but it’s a little unusual. It tries to address something that I find frustrating about election maps: Very few of them do a good job of showing where voters are. (Brief thread, because I am enthusiastic about maps!)
People often focus on the idea that election maps over-emphasize sparse rural areas with few people, but a deeper problem is that the maps imply that “areas” have political leanings at all. Spots on the map belong to many overlapping areas won by different sides.
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