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Why do we still teach people to calculate?
If you’re a regular listener to this podcast, then you probably know that I’m deeply frustrated by our current educational system, especially when it comes to mathematics. So I’m very excited about today’s conversation with Conrad Wolfram, a mathematician and entrepreneur who, of anyone I’ve ever met, has the greatest insight into rethinking the way […]
How to Do The Jhanas
The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This is a practical guide on how to do them yourself. Table of […]
MagNEO Project: Replace Rare Earth Elements for Permanent Magnets W 3D Printing
The EU-funded MagNEO project has a budget of €7,713,280.99 (that’s seven million, seven hundred thirteen thousand, and two hundred and eighty Euro, and 99 cents) to produce 3D printed permanent magnets. The “Advanced Additively Manufactured Permanent Magnets for New Energy and Mobility Applications” project aims to replace rare earth elements (REE) in permanent magnets with […]
LINQPad – The .NET Programmer’s Playground
With LINQPad, you can interactively query databases directly in LINQ (as well as SQL). The big win with LINQ is having association properties automatically generated for all relationships (inferred from foreign key constraints), so you can access related rows without joining! LINQPad uses a custom high-performance scaffolding engine behind the scenes, and includes drivers for […]
Porting Python to a $3 smartwatch [video]
Deriving Dependently-Typed OOP from First Principles
Abstract:The expression problem describes how most types can easily be extended with new ways to produce the type or new ways to consume the type, but not both. When abstract syntax trees are defined as an algebraic data type, for example, they can easily be extended with new consumers, such as print or eval, but […]
Y combinator codex (2021)
The Y Combinator Codex is a calligraphy piece I’ve created. Creation time/location: January 13th-25th 2021, Kraków, Poland. Size: 420mm x 2400mm (42cm x 2.4m), plus white margins on both short sides (about 10cm each). Tools used: 420mm 120g/m² plotter paper, Pilot Parallel calligraphy pens, Hero and Pelikan inks, Ecoline watercolor paints, Ecoline metallic gold paint, […]
Socks, Lies, and Accessibility
Feeling nostalgic and missing the now-shattered Twitter accessibility community, I scrolled back through my timeline over the weekend. My scrolling took me to posts from GAAD 2023, during which I had retweeted a number of posts from my peers in the field. This glimpse back in time showed a flood of social media posts about […]
Some fundraisers pay >90% of the funds to themselves
ProPublica is a nonprofit newsroom that investigates abuses of power. Sign up to receive our biggest stories as soon as they’re published. In September 2020, the Federal Trade Commission joined regulators in four states to sue four men behind a notorious telemarketing company called Outreach Calling. The FTC alleged that the company, which it described […]