- Farm Drones
- A very good rain / noise generator
- Life in bubbles / a quiz (I got six out of ten)
- What is the hardest langauge to learn (infographic)
http://www.proprofs.com/quiz-school/story.php?title=how-thick-is-your-bubble
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Jun 13
Monday Links of Interest
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Jun 13
My massive health insight of the past week
In the past three years I
- have given up smoking
- have given up alcohol
- have given up artificial sweeteners
- no longer view sleep deprivation as heroism and get much more sleep than I used to
- have gone paleo (i.e. no sugars/starches, minimal carbohydrates and high fiber) in my diet
And while I haven’t stopped aging the signs of aging have more or less vanished. I now think that aging, up to about fifty or so, should be viewed as not forgiving you for damaging it.
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Jun 13
Why I like Hannibal
I think part of my enjoyment of Hannibal is seeing the creepy lairs and hideouts, it makes my basement workshop seem not so bad.
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Jun 13
My mild problem with evolution
In the beginning there was creationism. Then knowledge expanded and science proved itself useful and people realized that many of their original ideas were wrong. Evolution was a fine advance in the theory of everything. Since then though progress on that theory has stopped and people have replaced it with endless waves of confirmation bias.
Both creationism and evolution are unprovable, after all, it’s not like we can recreate either one in a lab. Any evidence that comes up can be cherry picked and rationalized, I can come up with several plausible theories on why birds have feathers, why women are (supposedly) more monogamous than men, why we have genders, etc. But it seems like Darwin came up with the theory of evolution lo those many years ago, and everyone stopped looking for theories on the origin of the species, and just set out to defend it against creationism, and never put any effort into coming up with something better. It’s as if someone discovered that it was easier to haul crops into town on a wagon, and then committed himself to the wagon, and no one ever thought of the truck.
Why hasn’t there been anything new?
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Jun 13
Quote of the day
From MMM
The older I get, the more I realize that the future really does arrive on a regular basis.
The ability to image is a crucial part of day to day functioning…
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Apr 13
First ride of the year
I did a fairly slow eight miles at a reasonable intensity. Now to get my heart rate under 50 by the end of summer (which will probably take eliminating caffeine, which is time I do that anyway). Caffeine is awareness on credit.
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Feb 13
Wednesday Insight from Colonel Blotto
The more I think about it – the Colonel Blotto Problem explains a lot – check it out.
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Feb 13
Thought for the day
Engineers create value, designers reveal value.
I had that thought while watching a documentary on the early history of Silicon Valley – it was entirely dominated by hard core engineers, all of them making components, not products.
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Feb 13
Let’s see if this will post to facebook
I’ve finally gotten around to linking my blog and Facebook accounts, the better to bore the rest of you on the social network. This is the test post.