This summer I deployed star charts in hopes of gaining skills and acquiring better habits. The star charts started on the 13th of July and ended whenever I realized they were no longer working. In this post I will try to identify why.

This qualitative review of my progress will …

Finding the location of photos and paintings of real places around the world.

On July 7 UNESCO announced this year's additions to the list of World Heritage sites. Among the newly added locations we find the mountain range of Qinghai Hoh Xil

Qinghai Hoh Xil

Qinghai is a large province in western China.

Hoh Xil means "Blue Ridge" in Mongolian. (A friend tells …

You can find the paper here

I frequently make the mistake of reading HN comments. Many of the comments on this study had nothing to do with the study. The top comment makes a reference to archaic bards and the detrimental effects of writing information down. But the paper doesn't …

I discovered a new subreddit today. Take a look at r/AccidentalWesAnderson. Wes Anderson directed the award winning Grand Budapest Hotel as well as Moonrise Kingdom. Both of these films are among my favorites.

So what makes a Wes Anderson film?

• pastel
• symmetry
• 60s decor
• backgrounds that intentionally look like …

Today in the Sunlab a student ran into a problem. His program ran faster in Eclipse than on the command line. Actually, to clarify the program initially didn't run at all on the command line. Only after increasing the heap size did it run (this should give you a hint …

Ok, you have a spare computer. You want to setup SSH. Maybe this is because your laptop is Windows and WSL doesn't yet support the Go compiler (or Elm compiler for that matter. Edit: It does now). So you want a Linux box always on in your dorm.

Problem: The …

Today Matt Perault visited the Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs. Matt has been the head of Facebook's Global Policy Division for the past five years. Here I provide some commentary on his comments today.

Snowden

Perault claims that the Snowden revelations were wrong. Specifically he pointed to an …

If you're curious about how Typescript implements 'extends' for classes in vanilla Javascript code, check out this tutorial.

Typescript Deep Dive

First, That the idea or belief of a word of God existing in print, or in writing, or in speech is inconsistent in itself for the reasons already assigned. These reasons, among many others, are the want of an universal language; the mutability of language; the errors to which translations …