Golden Sections
I was inspired by this short Randall Carlson episode to re-construct the diagram in Wolfram Mathematica. It is a geometric construction of "the golden mean", and then viewing it as a ratio,…
Monthly Summary: Aug 2022
Major update(s) * Nearly a week in Big Island * A month-long saga of problems with my car came to an end, able to drive again Minor update(s) * Playdates * School re-opened!…
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Late night #Youtube leads to: [youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XS9oPdlax0s&w=560&h=315]…
What's in a name
Three years ago, the New York Times published this article. It was about "the fourth spy" at Los Alamos (in addition to the previously known ones, Klaus Fuchs, Theodore Hall, and David Gree…
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On food security and the end of abundance…
Long 90s
While I was browsing the selection of streaming movies recently, and looking at the year each was made, I realized that in some subjective sense the kind of movies changed around 2011-13. For example…
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Wisdom from HackerNews: > The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much more important than all the technical skills. For me software engineeri…
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A random doodle…
Monthly Curations- August 2022
* Public art in a surprising place Hilton Waikoloa’s art collection In pursuit of that goal, Hemmeter traveled to China, Japan, Indonesia, Thailand, Burma and beyond. He spent at least a year trave…
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Koala on a door…
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A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible: youtu.be/MJrXUh0eZ...…
Magnatiles
Each time I think I’ve exhausted the possibilities of the set of magnetic tiles we have at home, something new comes along. Made this while playing with my daughter today: Two factors seem to contri…