I really love writing, and over the years I’ve cultivated a respectable audience of readers. But the money in writing is abysmal, far too little to make a living. In years past, I supported my writing habit by taking on … Read more
Posted on July 26, 2024 “Algebraic data types” is a beloved feature of programming languages with such a mysterious name. Where does this name come from? There are two main episodes in this saga: Hope and Miranda. The primary conclusion … Read more
After the recent release of England and Wales Census data for 2021 I decided to take a quick look at which areas have the highest population density. I’ve done this kind of thing before, for the whole of Europe and … Read more
The switch would seem to result from the longstanding legal tangle that resulted from Ms. Pac-Man’s unusual creation. Again, outlets such as Polygon have already told this story in detail, but the gist of it is that some royalties associated … Read more
What are the brightest and most ambitious minds of our generation currently working on? Here is a video from someone who spent 7 months building minecraft inside of minecraft by painstakingly constructing a redstone computer inside of it with its … Read more
For every major sense but touch there’s a major form of art. For vision, our most dominant sense, there is literature, painting, sculpture and film. For hearing there is music. For smell there is perfumery. For taste there are the … Read more
Where Is Noether’s Principle in Machine Learning? This post accompanies a poster to be presented at the MLSS 2024. Physics likes optimization! Subject to its boundary conditions, the time evolution of a physical system is a critical point for a … Read more
Click here to listen to the full podcast episode Let’s get going by hopping into a time machine and setting the clock back roughly 3.7-4.4 billion years…. We’ve ended up somewhere around the time that scientists think life first started … Read more
The White House itself once harvested the power of the sun. On June 20, 1979, the Carter administration installed 32 panels designed to harvest the sun’s rays and use them to heat water. Here is what Carter predicted at the … Read more
Here’s the thing: The idea of planning a house without taking into account the site where it will sit will never produce a good house. Would a pre-existing plan account for the sun exposure of your land? Would it have … Read more