ben.page
For months, I would bring packs of 12 forks to the dining hall and spread them across my friends’ plates at the end of the meal before the dishes were returned.
I appreciate this class of subversive yet harmless prank so much.
bigthink.com
Alternatively, you might decide that while you’re doing your weekly chores – washing the dishes, hanging up the laundry, or going to the grocery store – you’re not going to listen to anything on your headphones. It’s a counter-intuitive method for productivity enthusiasts, and one that I often have to force myself to partake in. And yet it works.
I do this. A lot. I use chore breaks like dishes as a chance to think and to turn things over in my mind. It doesn’t feel healthy to always be actively busy with external input.
github.com
NAND is a logic simulator suite made entirely from NAND gates
washingtonpost.com
“Nina has numbers on her arm, and they make her sad,” Aija said again, pointing to the inside of her forearm. Then she added: “Nina misses her family. Nina was taken away from her family.”
It wasn’t just the words that sent a jolt of adrenaline through Marie’s body, or the way her child said them — clear and certain, with the letter R pronounced correctly, which Aija usually couldn’t manage — but there was also something about Aija’s expression in that moment.
Nearly three years later, Marie tries to explain it: “There was just —” she pauses. “There was such deep pain there.” It seemed beyond what a toddler should know: “The look on her face, it was too old,” Marie says. “Does that make sense?”
github.com
A KeePass/Password Safe Client for iOS and OS X
github.com
A firmware platform aimed at quick prototyping, built around FreeRTOS and a feature-packed CLI
washingtonpost.com
“I thought, ‘This is ridiculous,’ and my first reaction was to leave a nasty, nasty message at the city hall,” he says. “And then I thought, well, I might as well build a screen … I’ll do what they want, but I’m not going to do it their way.”
github.com
A remote-operable smart Sauna. Why Not?
washingtonpost.com
When the pouches first arrived, “everyone was miserable and no one was talking to each other,” he said. Now he can hear the difference at lunch and in the hallways. It’s louder. Students are chatting more “face to face, in person,” Gabe said. “And that’s a crucial part of growing up.”
youtube.com
I’m honestly not super into the space at all, but I found this video talk by Bertrand Serlet about why AI works to be very interesting, especially at a mathematical level.