TL;DR

📈 Week in Review

• Why did the metaverse die? ☠️

• Palau Blockchain Summit Highlights & Updates 🌐

• Shining a Light on Optogenetics: An Innovative Approach to Combat Aging 👵🏼

• Robots: Do We Love Them, Fear Them, or Just Want Their Help? 🤖

😂 Meme Museum

• Some colleagues just don’t get it 🤦‍♀️

• NFT artists’ biggest weakness: Screenshot 🖼️

💫 Rising Star

• Cheryl Porter’s New Singing Competition: Vocal Voyage 🎙️

🤖 AI Artifact

• "Angry Pumpkins": A GPT-4 and DALL•E 3 Powered Game 🎃

📝 Diary Entry

• No one knows me like the piano… 🎹

WEEK IN REVIEW

Silicon Valley Doesn’t Understand the Concept of Fun

Palau Blockchain Summit Highlights & Updates

We get all of the latest news on the future of governance from the CivicStack Reports issued monthly. If you’re looking to learn more about starting your own country, this is the best place to get info. → Civicstack Reports

An Innovative Approach to Combat Aging

We get all of the latest news on the future of health from the Post FDA Reports issued monthly. If you’re looking to learn more about being immune to aging, this is the best place to get info. → Post FDA Reports

Robots: Do We Love Them, Fear Them, or Just Want Their Help?

MEME MUSEUM

This is literally this one lady at our office… can never get anything done

Grandpa gave me his animated mushroom NFTs from 2022… still worthless

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RISING STAR

Cheryl Porter: Renowned Vocal Coach

Cheryl has ignited a fierce new singing competition, "Vocal Voyage," where contestants perform atop moving vehicles, dueling for the top spot in a Mad Max-style musical showdown.

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AI ARTIFACT

Creating "Angry Pumpkins": A GPT-4 and DALL•E 3 Powered Game

This week's artifact spotlight is on a playful project titled "Angry Pumpkins 🎃", crafted by @javilopen using the powerful GPT-4 for coding and DALL•E 3 for graphics. The game, inspired by "Angry Birds", offers a Halloween twist to the catapult genre.

Play the Game (Note: Not mobile-compatible yet)

With an iterative approach, the creator communicated with GPT-4 to refine the code, showcasing a collaborative endeavor between human and AI. The graphics were a breeze for DALL•E 3, generating vibrant assets fitting the Halloween theme.

Check the Full Source Code

This project hints at a future where crafting games could be a dialogue between creators and AI, making the development process a shared journey.

Delve into the creator's process and experience the game through this Twitter thread.

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KARIM’S DIARY

I, as many others in my time, still have a deep nostalgia for the past. My main tie to it is our piano at home. My grandfather would play, starting me out on the black keys, a pentatonic scale where you could never make a mistake — a technique called the Maka Method.

As I grew older I became fascinated in tuning it. At 11 I’d spend most weekends tweaking pitch in different ways, sometimes composing completely random orderings of notes just to see what I could create.

Ji got me into note reading through games he would build to make the process entertaining… See more

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