🎓 College Majors Ranked by Unemployment Rates; Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send; OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive's Company for $6.5 Billion
PLUS, an old map shows what Houston looked like in 1891.
🎓 Undergraduate Majors with the Highest and Lowest Unemployment Rates in the U.S.
Wow, I wouldn’t have guessed physics is #2
📈 Curve-Fitting Methods and the Messages They Send
A classic from @xkcd (one of the greatest web comics ever to do it)
OLD MAP: Houston, Texas in 1891
Old maps rule
💰 OpenAI Acquires Jony Ive’s Company for $6.5 Billion
Very cool. Genuinely excited to see what kind of device these guys are working on.
Better not be another AI pin. 😅
Also, lmao at that announcement from OpenAI. Can’t tell if it’s an invite to a funeral or a gay wedding.
🏀 NBA PLAYOFFS: A Few Sweet Data Visualizations
More fascinating stats from Owen Phillips, who also always picks the nicest color palette:
🎶 Banger of the Day
Black Moth Super Rainbow is a psychedelic electronic indie rock project from Pittsburgh. Pretty much all their songs are good. The guy who started the band has a solo project called Tobacco, and all those song are also pretty rad.
Black Moth Super Rainbow - Born On A Day The Sun Didn’t Rise
Not only do these guys make kickass songs, they also have some of the coolest album covers around:
SIDE NOTE: On Instagram, we pair each post with a song that bangs. A lot of people don’t know that we have a comprehensive Spotify playlist with every song we ever played. Click here to check it out. 🎶
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