sometimes i’ll see a project that’s so good i genuinely wish i came up with it myself 😭
i’ve been seeing all the girlies making cyberdecks online and i’ve wanted to try building one so badly, but learning how to solder, use a breadboard, buy all the parts, and figure out the wiring felt like so much just to get started
@boringbags built this AI circuit builder where you can learn to make circuits and run real simulations completely online!! he submitted it to the @Replit Designathon and it won 2nd place, which is so deserved. this is seriously so cool 🥹
https://t.co/gnDAFzCtBH
Okay electromagnet landing pads work actually pretty well. Just gotta train a landing routine and we have a the full auto land/recharge cycle active, aka 24/7 flying if rotate a few drones
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Katie Ledecky says she didn't medal in Tokyo for the first time in 36 international races, and had under an hour until the next one.
"In the Tokyo Olympics, I had two medal races about 70 minutes apart."
"The first was the 200 meter free."
"I'm still not quite sure what happened, but I just felt off."
"It was my 36th international race, and the first time I didn't medal."
"And I had under an hour to get ready for my next race, the 1500 meter freestyle."
"I knew I'd have to dig deep and fight."
"I remember I was in the warm down pool, my brain was clouded with doubt, and I kept telling myself to relax."
"I had to find a way to shake things off and focus."
"That's when I started to think about my grandparents."
"I envisioned my grandmothers watching me on TV back home. I pictured them cheering for me."
"And if I were going to dwell on anything in those difficult moments, it was going to be on the toughness and warmth of my grandmothers."
"For nearly every stroke of that 30 lap race, I just repeated their names. Grandma Hagan, Grandma Berta, Grandma Hagan, Grandma Berta."
"And it worked. I swam with a sense of strength and freedom."
The instruction she gave herself in that warm down pool was to relax, and she says plainly that it didn't work. She kept telling herself that, and her brain stayed clouded. What she found instead was two names, and she said them on nearly every stroke for 30 laps.
You've probably tried the relax version, in the twenty minutes before something that matters, telling yourself to calm down about it. She had a whole race in front of her and she spent it on her grandmothers.
- Katie Ledecky (@katieledecky) at Stanford Commencement (@Stanford)