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How to Use AI Without Losing Your Own Thinking Skills: What a 1,000-Student Study Reveals
I went digging through the research on AI and thinking skills expecting to write a think piece, and instead found something better: a bunch of studies …
Are We Outsourcing Our Thinking to AI? What the Research Actually Shows
I've been using an AI assistant for everything for two years now, and at some point I noticed a small, unsettling thing: when the model handed …
Andrej Karpathy: You Can Outsource Your Thinking — But Not Your Understanding
I kept seeing this line pasted everywhere: [you can outsource your thinking, but you can't outsource your understanding](#planned-you-can-outsource-your-thinking-but-you-cannot-outsource-your-understanding), the full quote, broken down, is a claim …
You Can Outsource Your Thinking: Meaning, Costs, and the Offloading Line
Outsourcing your thinking means [handing the thinking itself](#planned-you-can-outsource-your-thinking) to an external agent like ChatGPT, and yes, that's different from using a tool to store or compute.nt …
Game Mechanics: Why No One Can Agree on a Definition (Chess to Hades II)
Game mechanics are the rules, or "ludemes", that shape what a player can do and how the game responds. A rule tells you how to play; …
Custom Funko Pop From Photo: What $0, $60, and a Marketplace Order Actually Get You
I went looking for a way to turn my brother's photo into a Funko Pop for his birthday, assuming this was a solved problem. It's not …
Funko Pop Birthdays List: Every Date Mapped to Its Box-Number Twin
There's a trick buried in the way Funko prints its boxes, and I stumbled on it the way most good rabbit holes start: staring at a …
Pop Yourself Review: Real Costs ($34–$84), Builder Limits, and QC Issues Before You Order
I went down a rabbit hole recently and found the thing I didn't know I needed: a Funko service where you can literally pop yourself. Pop! …
