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)…
Random excerpts from "Godzilla, Singular point"
Presented entirely context-free (from episode 11) but even so, hopefully demonstrates that this isn't "just another anime" or "just another monster flick" :-)…
"On Cyberspace"
Warning: From 1995 (25 years ago!) Today the term "cyberspace" sounds silly (perhaps "internet culture" comes closest) but here's a 10-min clip of Neil Postman talking about i…
Notebook requirements
Here's what I want from a paper notebook: * Tomoe River Paper (with an exception for Midori MD) * Grid (i.e. not plain pages, not lined pages) * Page numbers (a new addition) * Size (A5 or A6…
Reviving Urbit
I said I'd look into Urbit. Going through old email, it turns out I had actually mentioned this .... seven and a half years ago. I'm shocked, I have no memory of this, lol. My old blog-post…
Space, science, progress, hope
We were eating in a cafe that had a 50s-60s theme and had this front page of the LA Times from 1961 on the day Alan Shepard became the first American in space. I didn't do a good job of taking th…