Generally Interesting Links- June 2020
* The latest (and probably the last đ) sequel to The Trip is out * File this under âlabor of loveâ: Dune, the ânovel cutâ * A thorough review of spacecrafts in science fiction * An overview of FuâŚ
Optimized Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
Context As hinted at in the first post, I found Abhinavâs posts to be a great source material for learning and (over this weekend) recreation :-) I picked the second post, where the pruning processâŚ
A triangular sand pyramid
Playing Sudoku
Doing the Sudoku solver made me want to play some myself. I ended up getting this app. Itâs fun, the ads donât bother me, it has levels (easy, medium, difficult, hard, and ... evil), and keeps trackâŚ
A simple Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
Context I found this excellent blog post by Abhinav Sarkar that lays out, step-by-step, writing a simple Sudoku solver in Haskell, and ⌠it seemed a good idea to translate it, step-by-corresponding-sâŚ
Journalling flow
Iâve been doing this for perhaps four years now, so ⌠itâs something I can write about. Hereâs a rough outline: * I use Day One1 * Every day, I write one entry on what happened that day * OptionalâŚ
The Highlight Zone
One of my favorite shows for Tara is Peg  Cat. There is a glut of âkid-oriented showsâ, and this is very refreshing. The âdrawing qualityâ is similar to Pete the Cat (crayon-cartoon-ish), with gridâŚ
On building
* An overview * Why America canât build * On building * Building institutions * Towards a science of progress * Time to build * Fast * Managerial childhoodsâŚ
Back to reading newspapers
After a long time, trying out the âreal paper newsâ experience again.âŚ
My daughterâs first horror movie :-|
We recently finished all three seasons of the ânewâ 2002-2006 Scooby Doo series1, and while browsing Netflix, we came across a full-length Scooby Doo movie. Great. In the spirit of watching a âfamilyâŚ
A collection of notes on nature and order
I found these notes Iâd copy-pasted from somewhere from about five years ago. I decided to track down their sources, as best I could. From âQED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matterâ By Richard P.âŚ
On âeffectsâ in moving images
See this opening for Vertigo and then realize this: However, what if CGI in films went back even further, to 1957 1958? I heard about this possibility through a video presented by John Hess on someâŚ