[Composed on March 12th, 2010, at 2:17 in the morning.] I’m very tired. I’m writing, though, to keep a streak alive: one hour per day, every day. Last month I did twenty-four days in a row. Tonight will be my sixth. I’m shooting for hundreds. Writing under these conditions can have you producing crap in [...]
Of the 142 Project Euler problems I’ve battled so far, it may just be that #191 has put up the most interesting fight, not because the problem itself was all that difficult or unusual or enlightening, but because the road to solving it—seven to ten hours of work, seven sheets of paper, several trips to [...]
I don’t seem to get bored anymore. I mean that I no longer get the feeling that I want to do something, but not any of the things I can think of doing. Of course I still get bored of individual activities. What happened? I think that the biggest change as I’ve gotten older is [...]
“The Record” Data storage is now cheap enough and file transfers fast enough that you could walk around with a voice recorder that was always on, periodically shuttling your audio to a server when the local drive started to fill up. On its own this already has serious implications. You’d never have to worry about [...]
“Technology” On the one hand the way the word “technology” is used is overly narrow. It refers essentially to electronic gizmos when it could refer to any kind of artcraft, including bookshelves, water bottles, RAID arrays, Markdown, magazines, keyboards, LEDs, pizza boxes, windowing systems, driveways, Bayes’ rule, door handles, languages, Occam’s razor, software, pens, lists, [...]