Rusty Deadlocked Vise - Perfect Restoration
More hypnotic slow-tv... not just slow, competent well equipped tv.
The Future of Education - Yuval Noah Harari & Russell Brand - Penguin Talks
These two complement each other well, an interesting session.
Continuous paths across minor junctions
This is a very neat urban design technique.
Sam Harris and Chris Anderson - The TED Interview
Good interview of Sam Harris by Chris Anderson for his TED interview podcast.
After On Podcast #38: Laurie Santos - The Science & Practice of Happiness
Yet another interesting After On episode.
Omnibus Entry Entry 714.1CH0910: The Letter J
This one is fascinating. Also the letter &!
TED: Alex Honnold - How I climbed a 3,000-foot vertical cliff -- without ropes
It's hard not to get sweaty hands every time Alex Honnold is on video...
UpTown Spot
Also has surprisingly good comments for a youtube video...
openDog Dog Robot #9 - Kinematic Model XYZ
It's rather ironic that our brains do inverse kinematics so easily, and kinematics is hard, but it's the reverse when programming a robot...
Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari: Reality and the Imagination
Sam Harris and Yuval Noah Harari: The Edge of Humanity
Julia Galef - Soldiers and Scouts
By now we take for granted overriding the evolutionary programming of our bodies (e.g. reproduction), cognitive biases are indicating where we need to do that for our brains.
Fixing an IBM 1401 mainframe from the 1960s
Some pretty hard-core debugging, and certainly plenty of "layers in the call stack" to get your head around, even back then before bloated dependencies.
Writing Fast and Efficient MicroPython by the Creator of MicroPython
Some inside tips on MicroPython optimization.
TED: DK Osseo-Asare - What a scrapyard in Ghana can teach us about innovation
Very ingenious.
The Curiosity Show: The Magical, Mystical, Mind-boggling Ames Window
This is a fascinating optical illusion, and The Curiosity Show was great!
PyCon 2018: Larry Hastings - Solve Your Problem With Sloppy Python
Stop writing crappy shell scripts—write crappy Python scripts instead! Good stuff :)
What If English Were Phonetically Consistent?
Wow, that's a mouthful!
How Some Words Get Forgetted
This is brilliant. Explains so much.
Triangulation #354: Virginia Eubanks - Automating Inequality
This is concerning. "The future is already here — it's just not very evenly distributed" William Gibson is usually taken to be referring to a bright future the rich are already enjoying, but it could be that the poor are already experiencing what is to be our distopian future...
The Memory Palace ep 129: Uplift
The Guinness Book of Records no longer accepts balloon release records.
1986 Cleveland, Ohio Balloon Launch
1.5 million helium balloons - and quite a few unintended (but in hindsight kind of obvious) consequences...
via The Memory Palace ep 129: Uplift
http://www.viralforest.com/never-release-1-million-balloons/
rockstar - The Rockstar programming language specification
FizzBuzz in idiomatic Rockstar is truly crazy!
TED: James Bridle - The nightmare videos of childrens' YouTube
This is bizarre stuff (and I see you there Jacinta!) and the implications are pretty concerning...
Steal This Show s04e01 - Building Botnets For Fun & Profit, with Abhishta
Very interesting and rather scary...