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#105 Using Diffusion to Discover New Materials
#104 Making Unhackable Servers
#103 PhDs Are Replacing Formulas with Neural Nets
#101 Players Cause City-wide Blackout to Win a Battle - Chatting with Eve Online’s CEO
#100 Compressing 2Gb ➜ 134 Bytes
#98 Technology to Divert Hurricanes
#97 How Exploding Furnaces Saved Me Hours of Debugging
#96 Homeless People Have Phones
#95 Games Computers Will Never Solve
#94 Solving Games as a Service
#93 Auto Layout Tool for News Articles
#92 Real-Time Inflation Tracking
#91 A Unit for Fun
#89 Spreadsheeting Friendships
#88 Singable Songs
#84 Recording and Publishing Podcasts in 15 Seconds
#83 Is ___ Funny?
#82 Verifying It's Me to the Government
#81 Effortlessly Digitizing Notebooks
#80 Laughing at Every Reference
#79 Online Judges for Evolution Simulators
#78 Wikipediafying Books to Make Reading Fun
#77 Automatically Generating Regex
#75 Encoding Nonverbal Communication in Writing
#73 Making Social Media Less Addictive
#72 Learning by Auto-grouping Our Notes
#71 A Search Engine That Has Your Back
#70 Measuring Product-Market Fit for YouTubers
#68 A Metric for Lovely Conversations
#67 Paying $0 to $10 a Month for Netflix
#65 Breaking out of Virtual Escape Rooms
#63 Increasing Survey Responses for Graduating Class Profiles
#62 Improving Customer Support
#61 Preventing False Fire Alarms
#60 I Think I Know Why I Like You
#59 Connecting Smart People to Problems
#57 Using Neural Nets to Assist Therapists
#56 Clicking 1-week Shipping Over 1-day Shipping
#55 Smarter Slack Notifications
#54 A DeLorean to Watch Old Shows on Release
#53 Algorithmically Adding Music to Live Broadcasts
#52 Why Climate Scientists Love Flying
#50 Offering Forgiveness in Budgeting Apps
#49 Whoa, Slow Down. That Car's Having a Bad Day
#48 Bullet Points ⇒ Better Reading
#47 A Search Engine for the Illiterate
#46 Highlighting Quotes in Podcasts
#45 I Want to Send You a Gift, but I Don't Know Your Address
#44 A Startup to (Hopefully) End Racism
#43 My Failed Attempt at Finding Love
#42 Is Production on Fire? Help Your Interns Improve by Taking a Vacation
#41 How Tech can Select 12 Angry Men
#40 Prompts to Help Creatives Think
#39 A Metric to Replace Test Coverage
#38 A New Art Style: Particle Effects
#37 QR Codes for Robotic Construction
#36 Designing Logos by Playing with Blocks
#35 Technical Interviews for Writing Pull Requests
#34 Drawing Routes with What 3 Words
#33 Using Knowledge Graphs to Prioritize Learning
#32 Using Knowledge Graphs to Learn from Others
#31 Pop Quizzes to Learn From Books
#30 Manual Recommendation Systems
#29 Underlines to Help Speed Read
#28 Ideas to Alleviate Eye Strain
#27 Showing Info in Underlined Text
#26 Tools to Undermine Biased Graphs
#25 Sharing Opinions with Formulas
#24 A Tool for Reminiscing and Persuasion
#23 Grammarly on the Apple Glass
#22 Measuring Emotional Weight
#20 Cybersecurity for Consumers
#19 Search via Dynamic File Trees
#18 The Shortcomings of Google Drive's Search
#15 Forgetting
#14 Conversational Calculators
#13 A Tool That Helps You Write Better
#12 How to Frame Your Photo at the Sydney Opera House
#11 Gossip That's Stronger than Liquor
#10 Pattern Recognition With VR
#8 Decoration Should Present Information
#7 How to Search for Lost Objects
#5 How to Accurately Rank Chess Players
#4 Chrome Extensions for Messaging Apps