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BBC “In Our Time”, categorised by Dewey Decimal, heavy lifting by GPT▲688
I'm a big fan of the BBC podcast In Our Time -- and (like most people) I've been playing with the OpenAI APIs. In Our Time has almost 1,000 episodes on everything from Cleopatra to the evolution of teeth to plasma physics, all still available, so it's my starting point to learn about most topics. But it's not well organised. So here are the episodes sorted by library code. It's fun to explore. Web scraping is usually pretty tedious, but I found that I could send the minimised HTML to GPT-3 and get (almost) perfect JSON back: the prompt includes the Typescript definition. At the same time I…
2023 · genmon.github.io
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Stephen Hawking's Pocket Universe▲91
Bringing ‘A Brief History of Time’ to a whole new generation
2016
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Kalam Labs▲183
Twitch for science
2021
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The Minute Physics Course▲99
Free course on how the world works from the YouTube star.
2015
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Spacetime 2.0▲174
A home for all space lovers.
2020
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Inspector Spacetime from Google▲207
Google Translate for engineers working with motion
2017
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Learn where countries are on the world map with Spaced Repetition▲217
Hi HN, I made a web game to practice country locations a while ago and HN liked it, so I thought I'd post my updated version as well. As for how the game works and feels, I'd really recommend you checking it out for yourself, it's free, no signup, no ads. The tech stack is Vue + ts + Tailwind/Daisy for the looks. The learning algorithm is a slight modification of the ts version of FSRS. If you have anything to add, it's open source as well (https://github.com/koljapluemer/learn-worldmap), although not well documented yet. In the end it's just a little sideproject,…
2025 · map.koljapluemer.com
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More Episodes!▲135
TV Show episodes that don't exist, written by GPT-4
2023
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Kurzgesagt - Universe in a Nutshell▲240
Travel our universe in the palm of your hand
2020
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Spaces▲151
A showcase of curated Amazon products from inspiring spaces.
2016
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EarthGuessr▲192
Geoguessr, but it's satellite imagery!
2025
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gravity.js - Beta▲112
Gravity WebGL experiment in the Solar System
2016
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Visions of the Future (by NASA)▲160
You can be an architect of the future
2016
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thisopenspace▲169
Discover and book unique short term commercial spaces
2016
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Discover Meteor SE▲86
A free Starter Edition of Discover Meteor
2014
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GoArchitect Mars▲74
How would you create a new world?
2018
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I built a gravity simulator in pure CSS▲64
2022 · multiplanetary.website
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The Random Vee▲101
With now more than 190 episodes, which one to watch next?
2016
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SpaceInBrowser▲76
Travel space in your browser
2022
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The Quantum Labyrinth▲67
Life and work of two of our most eminent physicists
2017
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I built an interactive 3D three-body problem simulator in the browser▲60
Mar 2026 · structuredlabs.github.io
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C++ Game Programming and Intro to AI Course Lectures on YouTube▲6
Since the beginning of the pandemic in 2020 I have been recording my university lectures for all of my courses and posting them online for free for anyone to watch. You can click the link for a YouTube playlist, or click the Google Spreadsheet for a breakdown of all the lectures of that course offering. Here is my standard response for those asking for the assignment files, which I unfortunately do not provide: https://www.cs.mun.ca/~dchurchill/teaching/youtube.txt
2024 · cs.mun.ca
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Earthguessr 2.0▲15
Zoom, pan, and guess where you are!
Jun 2026 · earthguessr.com
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SpaceSim▲7
Explore the universe
Jul 2026 · spacesim.co

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