the Daily Whale - archive 2018

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Do you remember this more innocent year when we were less guilty than now?



January February March
1 grasp the basics augmented reality forgiveness
2 flawed and deluded joy and fun secret
3 4K resolution beautiful not ugly artifact
4 ambiguous 4K state of the art trade war 1
5 change and variety fashion theory quiz trade war 2
6 the largest button meaning and reasoning what you’re missing
7 grating not responsibility possible problems
8 self-aware electrons stupid people can’t improve
9 who gets credit United Nations flag worry quiz
10 who gets blame scientists a mile wide
11 stock analysts ship and iceberg ocean of data 1
12 happiness Euclid ocean of data 2
13 patch the software losesome future utopia 1
14 Spectre total factor productivity future utopia 2
15 nobody tweets relaxed attitude future utopia 3
16 know nothing Bates Gill future utopia 4
17 Ben Franklin 1 preconceptions future utopia 5
18 Ben Franklin 2 flawless monotreme
19 Ben Franklin 3 U.S. Navy accidents caution tape
20 Ben Franklin 4 the fact is ignorance disability
21 hard sell heartless vs. artless recognize Taiwan
22 market on fire nothing like new normal
23 out of the bag too little vanilla
24 human rights contrarian rule Sergei Skripal
25 excellence easy accomplishments Ivan the Terrible
26 interminator political anti-logic eat it too
27 hydrogen and stupidity procrastination bioavailable ideas
28 at your own risk between depths wild aspartame
29 Hernandez of Honduras do you remember
30 variety total factor productivity
31 say nothing poor taste
 
April May June
1 for all ages say “no” universal computation
2 unspeakable predict probabilities 1 prone to error
3 life is a game predict probabilities 2 wrong problems
4 usually always predict probabilities 3 write it down
5 hyper-converged predictable North Korea delayed history
6 crimes against inhumanity only a story error bars quiz
7 Inflammation Age liberty or... disillusionment
8 rock to clock means-end analysis CVID
9 better mousetrap forbid hype alliances
10 attention to detail digits of pi conclusions
11 explosive, propulsive multi-armed bandits beating discrimination
12 slow learner history diplomatic skill
13 kabad idea idiot vs. fool deception
14 kakafka new Korean War shipwrecked
15 kacritics being wrong voices in my head
16 blame yourself nine lives languages
17 tzompantli advice antipassive
18 not the answer rare absurdity hypochondria
19 gauche power topos and topoi depraved new world
20 bureaucracy going to say memes
21 problem words Topeka, tapioca cloning
22 successful ancestors make your mind up stable too long
23 testing 1 the nice places foreshock
24 testing 2 skepticism negative charge
25 close to impossible machine creativity Einstein’s genius
26 not impossible hopeless safety experts
27 dogma, newer superfood widespread
28 waiting proportional president for dummies
29 fruitful independent truth real music
30 untangled meaning of life two kinds
31 transparent lies
 
July August September
1 Hope Memorial Bridge dyed in the wool bad secrecy
2 always a solution seize the day accept no evil
3 great education cosmology is god the Singularity 1
4 AI is easy for yourself the Singularity 2
5 inspirational speaker good boss the Singularity 3
6 broad mad genius HPLD 1
7 trade wars ferns and conifers HPLD 2
8 brilliant trade war epicyclic gears HPLD 3
9 fatalistic partial differential equation HPLD 4
10 no metaphors execution fail safe
11 muddle through thoroughstaying women on board
12 not said quiz expert advice accept me
13 error of ways stray black hole ergotism
14 change of mind Alexa not my opinion
15 reigning view genetic engineering opposed ideas quiz
16 extreme degree implicit unthinkable
17 column angels Jumbly heads intuition, calculation
18 monotheism creative destruction I am special
19 limelight good health Whale Wager
20 news vs. war reigning over questions to a side
21 holier than thou wisdom before socks
22 darkroom, cleanroom Public Enemy serious things
23 mistaken mistakes jump to conclusions posternatural
24 absentminded love buys money get along
25 around the rock obvious planetary defense
26 reckless moderate vs populist totalitarian
27 universal language own devices confusion
28 fabric of society 1 detail work 1 artifacts
29 fabric of society 2 detail work 2 counterfactual
30 fabric of society 3 detail work 3 unpopularity
31 my flaw hypothetical reasoning
 
October November December
1 road to success ideology lifetime study
2 cult of personality feed that coal devoting to
3 cage it meaningless morally wrong
4 ruled by critical cremation quiz
5 generation X need to know destabilize
6 sit down with 48 cores the Dow’s plunge
7 distrust kick the can kill all humans
8 rational actor lightning exploiting ideas
9 ambivalence postmodern trade war truce
10 mildly or in bed energy resources burning truth
11 Occam’s Razor matter resources Brexit deal
12 password reuse historical resources cleanliness
13 contractor language resources Meng Wanzhou
14 the long run imagination resources containing China
15 boring stuff without void unpredictable China
16 M urgency corporeal corporations complicity
17 indirect approach great minds told by digits
18 strategy unhealthy denuclearization
19 a little knowledge forceps goes without saying
20 a little ignorance retro rockets the impossible
21 diplomatic immunity opposite broken things
22 transparent lies deadline Alice and Bob
23 Jamal Khashoggi waste product multituberculates
24 too much talent panic keeping secrets
25 locked room study toil of creation what to do
26 next decade’s fashion hands attract car berator
27 habitable based off of considered harmful
28 choices sign from God modern war
29 understatement unanswerable assent to ascend
30 weather re-examine beliefs
31 skill and luck look at me!
 

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