Of Androids and Electric Sheep
I’ve watched the original Bladerunner1 (many times) and the new one2 (once), but I hadn’t read the original novel3 (“Do androids dream of electric sheep?”) ever, despite repeatedly resolving to, and b…
Using Twitter the right way (!)
Apparently there was a massive Twitter hack1 yesterday, and some folks clearly made a bunch of money2 off it too. I didn’t notice this, though I do spend several minutes a day on Twitter. I guess it’…
Monthly Recap (Jun 2020)
Major updates * A few interesting excursions (picnic in Lexington reservoir and Loch Lomond, an afternoon at Greyhound Rock Beach. * Trips to parks (Tara playing, farewell to a close friend, some s…
Generally Interesting Links- June 2020
* The latest (and probably the last 😕) sequel to The Trip is out * File this under “labor of love”: Dune, the “novel cut” * A thorough review of spacecrafts in science fiction * An overview of Fu…
Optimized Sudoku solver- Haskell to Scala
Context As hinted at in the first post, I found Abhinav’s posts to be a great source material for learning and (over this weekend) recreation :-) I picked the second post, where the pruning process…
A triangular sand pyramid
Playing Sudoku
Doing the Sudoku solver made me want to play some myself. I ended up getting this app. It’s fun, the ads don’t bother me, it has levels (easy, medium, difficult, hard, and ... evil), and keeps track…
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-s…
Journalling flow
I’ve been doing this for perhaps four years now, so … it’s something I can write about. Here’s a rough outline: * I use Day One1 * Every day, I write one entry on what happened that day * Optional…
The Highlight Zone
One of my favorite shows for Tara is Peg Cat. There is a glut of “kid-oriented shows”, and this is very refreshing. The “drawing quality” is similar to Pete the Cat (crayon-cartoon-ish), with grid…
On building
* An overview * Why America can’t build * On building * Building institutions * Towards a science of progress * Time to build * Fast * Managerial childhoods…
Back to reading newspapers
After a long time, trying out the “real paper news” experience again.…