Dan has big updates about his smart home setup, and Merlin is getting intimate with a robot.

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• The Future is a Dead Mall - Decentraland and the Metaverse - YouTube
• Folding Ideas - YouTube
• Dreyfus model of skill acquisition - Wikipedia — The Dreyfus model of skill acquisition is a model of how learners acquire skills through formal instruction and practicing, used in the fields of education and operations research. Brothers Stuart and Hubert Dreyfus proposed the model in 1980 in an 18-page report on their research at the University of California, Berkeley, Operations Research Center for the United States Air Force Office of Scientific Research.[1] The model proposes that a student passes through five distinct stages and was originally determined as: novice, competence, proficiency, expertise, and mastery.