It was 3:30 in the morning. I wasn’t the least bit tired even though melatonin + theanine usually knocks me out. Tossing and turning in bed is miserable — you just want to be asleep. I had even gotten up … Continue reading
I have a mild coffee addiction. The aroma of good coffee is intoxicating, and the balanced bitterness of an Americano just hits the spot in the morning. The funny thing is, I used to hate the taste of coffee. Yet … Continue reading
Reddit is a river of content. Sometimes different posts collide in my mind in interesting ways. Because I like to think about innovation, these collisions sometimes relate to how interesting things are created. Comic crosswords and Raptor Hoodies Take for … Continue reading
The way current illicit drugs work are crude. You take them, they short-circuit your pleasure circuits, they create addiction and ruin lives. But it seems likely that science will at some point allow us to create more effective mind-altering drugs. … Continue reading
One characteristic of hackers is that they are generally sensitive to logical inconsistencies; for example, the WAT talk making its rounds points out comical seeming inconsistencies in javascript and ruby: Why should empty array plus empty array = empty string? A more … Continue reading
C is quirky, flawed, and an enormous success. -Dennis Ritchie For whatever reason, the lead singer of a band nearly always draws all the attention. But perhaps the drummer is the one writing all the songs, and surely she and … Continue reading
“It is absolutely certain that I shall never do important things.” -Vincent Van Gogh, two months before his suicide. Though the tormented life of Vincent van Gogh can be interpreted in many ways, I’d like to paint it today as … Continue reading
And making an exception only for his parents, he gradually became contemptuous of all grownups who had made this mess and were unable to clear it up. He was sure that when he was big he would straighten it all … Continue reading
Note: If you like to follow along with complete source, feel free to grab this project on github. Celery is a distributed task queue that integrates smoothly with python. I stumbled upon it and immediately saw it as a cool technology … Continue reading
Teaser video: “Neuroevolution,” which literally means “Evolving brains,” sounds like a tired sci-fi plot: Scientists create a super-smart computer that gets out of control and goes on a wild rampage, stopped only seconds from starting a nuclear holocaust (or not, … Continue reading