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Six Months of Tiny Projects
In this post I'll give an update on how my Tiny Projects are performing six months on, and the pros and cons of launching micro-businesses.
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The Most Common Errors in Undergraduate Mathematics (2009)
This page describes the errors that I have seen most frequently in undergraduate mathematics, the likely causes of those errors, and their remedies.
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Write Code Like You Write a Recipe
It starts innocently enough - the business needs you to write a program to automate creating peanut butter cookies (yum).
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On Learning Chess as an Adult – From 650 to 1750 in Two Years
I caught the chess bug as a college student, twenty-one years old, and it’s become my favorite way to unwind since then, as I’m now working at VisioStack and starting a master’s i…
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Every thought about giving and taking advice I’ve ever had
It’s easy to give useless advice that feels profound. For example, one of the pieces of advice I give most often to people is to write more. So a few months ago I suggested to a friend of mine that they should write about the situations in which they started procrastinating and explained that writing forces you to…
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I Ripped Out a £6k Lighting System
I took me 7 years to admit I'd made a mistake in choosing a Z-Wave Wireless Lighting System. Finally I've taken stock and replaced it!
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Why I teach vim
The why of why people use vim has been covered fairly extensively, so I thought I would spend a little time explaining why I teach vim to my high school students, even in 2020. It all began when I …
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A Pretty Good Mathematical Model of Perfectionism
I struggle with perfectionism. Well, not so much “struggle with” — I’m f*cking great at it. It comes naturally. There are some upsides, but perfectionism is also associated …
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Everything Is an X
Analysis and examples of the popular high-level pattern of making all the things in your system conform to a common interface.
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An updated daily front page of The New York Times as artwork on your wall
As a news junkie, tech journalist and founder of an online news platform called Blendle, I love a good old front page of a newspaper. When…
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A US Visa in 937 Days
Here's the complete timeline of events. From my first denial to travel to the US until I eventually received a tourist visa. And then I can't go anyway. December 5-11, 2016 I spent a week on Hawaii with Mozilla - my employer at the time. This was my 12th visit to the US over a … Continue reading a US visa in 937 days →
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The Tao of Programming (1987)
Note: I copied this from http://misspiggy.gsfc.nasa.gov/tao.html and stripped out all of the IMHO extraneous formatting. ---Alex
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Start with pen and paper
Notes on building and operating software
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Cool Machine Learning Books
awhile ago i posted my list of cool machine learning books , but it's been awhile so it's probably time to update it...
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Is this Mahler? This sounds like Mahler
One of the most delightful parts of being a software engineer and hardware tinkerer is having the ability to solve my own specific (and often niche) problems. In this post, the particular problem I’ll be solving is the burning need to know what is currently playing on WQXR , NYC’s classical radio station.
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Prestige in US Today
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Turning my smartphone into a boring productivity tool
Tools do their job then get out of the way.
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A divorce in Italy destroyed my researcher career
Preface:I have worked in the United States and England as a researcher for most of my life, I am Italian and a few years ago I became the father of a beautiful daughter. Unfortunately, for reasons …
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So you want to buy a farm?
I get a few calls every week these days from folks wanting to buy a small farm, start growing food, and even maybe settle down there now…
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As a former social media analyst, I'm quitting Twitter
Yet Another Quitting Twitter Story
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The Complete Idiot’s Guide to the Independence of the Continuum Hypothesis
A global pandemic, apocalyptic fires, and the possible descent of the US into violent anarchy three days from now can do strange things to the soul. Bertrand Russell—and if he’d done no…
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How to deal with extreme physical pain
I'm in a LOT of pain right now. It's hard to say that, especially considering ...
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The Remarkable Number 1/89 (2004)
The Fibonacci series is a famous example of an object with a simple mathematical description, but a nearly inexhaustable list of bizarre and complicated properties. Originally, the series was described by Fibonacci in the 15th century in connection with the following problem:
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Looking Back on 35 Years as an Amiga User
Thirty five years ago I became an Amiga user. One of the first, actually. This is a meandering and reminiscent post of sorts, written to mark the Amiga’s 35th birthday and the 35 years I have known and loved the … Continue reading →
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Steps to Improve Your Writing
“There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed.” – Ernest Hemingway Introduction Looking back, I always struggled with writing. I felt pain every time I try to…
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A Guy Walks into an Apple Store
"Hello, I'd like to buy one of the new iPhones, please!" "Sure thing, here's the new iPhone 12. It's fast, beautiful, and is generally awesome." "Sweet, I'll take it. This box is really small." "Yup, that's because Apple is making the environmental move to reduce