🧠 Boost Your Brainpower, Explore AI Breakthroughs & Dive into Physics with Feynman

In this week's issue:

Thing 1 - How Yoga Nidra Boosts Your Working Memory
Thing 2 - AI of the week
Thing 3 - Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics

Thing 1 - Unlock Your Brainpower: How Yoga Nidra Boosts Your Working Memory and More!

You could do a simple practice, and bam! Your brain's dopamine levels skyrocket by as much as 60%. Too good to be true?

Here's the science behind the magic

• Dopamine Surge
  A study found that Yoga Nidra (a.k.a. NSDR) increased dopamine levels by a whopping 60%!
  And dopamine is a key player in learning, memory, and motivation. It's your brain's happy fuel.
• Working Memory Boost
  Yoga Nidra doesn't just pump up dopamine, but studies also show it improves tasks that rely on working memory, like remembering information for short periods.
  Although, I'm not gonna stop using grocery lists. The stakes are just too high...
• More Than Just Wishy-Washy
  Forget the "weak sauce" stereotype. Yoga Nidra is backed by concrete research and impacts the very neural circuits responsible for your cognitive abilities. ⚡

How do I do it, Z?

Here's my favorite 10-min guided NSDR session by Dr. Andrew Huberman:

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Thing 2 - AI of the week

• Google launched Gemini Pro + opened availability to new countries
• BRIA AI released a new background removal AI model

RMBG-1.4 model examples from huggingface demo

• StabilityAI launched Stable Audio AudioSparx 1.0 music model
• Deforum Studio launched a web version - AI generated videos with continuous changes
• Boston Dynamics Atlas started manipulating objects - less flashy but more useful

• Roblox rolled out automatic AI translations in chats
• HuggingFace Assistants are a free alternative to OpenAI's GPTs
• Meta started labeling AI-Generated Images on Facebook, Instagram and Threads

Example from the announcement

• Stanford University and Stability AI introduced CheXagent - new AI model for automated Chest X-Ray interpretation.
• Google's Lookout app helps blind and partially sighted people understand their surroundings better.
• Google announced Lumiere - Space-Time Diffusion Model for Video Generation

Thing 3 - Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics

Richard Feynman's Lectures on Physics ⚛ are a series of physics textbooks based on his lectures at Caltech in the early 1960s.

Richard Feynman

They are regarded as some of the best introductory physics books ever written.

Feynman’s clear and engaging style, his deep insights into physical phenomena, and his ability to explain complex topics in simple and intuitive ways are unmatched.

Above all, his lessons demonstrate how to reason about physics. 👨‍🔬

And they are COMPLETELY FREE ONLINE 🤩 -> Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Audio

Enjoy!

Cheers, Zvonimir