Brad Spencer - Project Gallery
These sculptures are really cool!
Sam Harris and Nick Bostrom: Will We Destroy the Future?
Sam Harris speaks with Nick Bostrom about the problem of existential risk. They discuss public goods, "the vulnerable world hypothesis," the history of nuclear deterrence, "turnkey totalitarianism," the Doomsday Argument, and other topics.
Making a Rover For My Kid!
I can (and do) spend hours watching competent people build with appropriate tools...
Reply All #136: The Founder
Crazy story, kind of Elon Musk crossed with Ross Ulbricht.
TED: Greta Thunberg - The disarming case to act right now on climate change
Ouch. She has one hell of a point.
Sam Harris and Douglas Rushkoff - Digital Capitalism
Sam Harris speaks with Douglas Rushkoff about Team Human and the digital economy.
TED: Douglas Rushkoff - How to be "Team Human" in the digital future
Join Team Human.
3Blue1Brown: Ever wonder how Bitcoin (and other cryptocurrencies) actually work?
This is a very good intro/refresher on how cryptocurrencies/block chains work.
Resin-in-resin: how to make a literal "embedded" device
A Raspberry Pi with a display completely encased in a block of clear epoxy, but still able to be updated and used.
toothpick-like sequence exploration
These are some pretty neat patterns.
via Numberphile
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.