Orwell and Wells
Another long-form article that I found relevant to the current time; here's the full article, which was originally written in August 1941, or about eight decades ago. I present my selections here…
Random Note #6782036478
A perspective on waste and social media. From this article Waste books/Sudelbücher This sub-genre of notebooks comes out of the tradition of double-entry book keeping where accountants often kept a…
A first NFT
I took one of Tara's drawings from last year and placed it on OpenSea. Mostly just to see what the experience is like. So here it is, "A princess, her castle, and an apple tree". For…
Tiling managers
Switched to Rectangle on my macbook. It's a "tiling window manager", and I hadn't used one for over six years now, ever since I stopped using a Linux laptop for personal/office use…
Mis-placed optimism
The heady promises of the 90s, w.r.t to the internet, and how it would bring greater openness and understanding, came to nothing, and gave us the dystopian social-media-verse we live in today. But th…
A little robot
Ended up assembling a little robot ("Zivko") this weekend. Doesn't do much, just basic obstacle avoidance and tracking, but looks "cute" enough for my daughter. Finished pro…
Monthly recap (Nov 2021)
Major update * Maui trip * left a day later than planned, because of tests that were needed * warm sum, yummy food and pool time * Tara turned 7! Minor updates * D…
Generally interesting links - Nov 2021
Science and the world * A magic treatment for paralysis? * A self-assembling gel injected at the site of spinal cord injuries in paralysed mice has enabled them to wa…
First bit of computational art
Just a tiny thing right now, but what matters is ... it's quick, relaxing and ... yes, fun. And here's the (short) notebook that made it.…
Advent-of-code 2021
Using Wolfram Mathematica for this is more satisfying than it should be https://www.wolframcloud.com/obj/agam.brahmawolfram/Published/AOC%202021.nb It was shockingly easy to do all this. * REPL/N…
Book store browsing
Saw these in the Amazon Books store we stumbled into for half an hour today. "The Dawn of everything" is the most interesting of this bunch, it seems like a legit re-imagining of pre-histor…
The humor in Radical Candor
(From a recent issue of the Economist)…