I just submitted a little web app I’ve been working on this summer for Sunlight Labs’ Apps for America 2 programming challenge. The idea of the contest is to build an app around one of the datasets provided by our friendly US government on the new Data.gov website. My app is called Eureka and it generates inventions.
The app is built around a Markov processor … Read the rest
I’m finishing up reading Edward Tufte’s canonical The Visual Display of Quantitative Information and the following quote about typography seemed postable:
With regard to typography, Josef Albers writes:
“The concept that ‘the simpler the form of a letter the simpler its reading’ was an obsession of beginning constructivism. It became something like a dogma, and is still followed by ‘modernistic’ typographers…. Ophthalmology has disclosed that the … Read the rest
Subject to amendment.
Make chai from scratch
Spend more time reading (books)
Work out at least three times per week, consistently
Learn more about stocks, trading, economics
Redesign this website
Write more consistently for this website
Start doing research within the CSE department at UW
Get really good at cooking
Get a spice rack
Be mindful
Finish learning CakePHP
Be able to taste the difference between english and irish breakfast
Get a drum set
Play a show
Keep being … Read the rest
Among my share of presents this Christmas was Kurt Vonnegut’s Armageddon In Retrospect, a collection of his writings on war and peace. Having so far read only the introduction written by Vonnegut’s son, I’m already ripe with material to write about:
When I complained about being paid fifty dollars for an article that had taken me a week to write, he [Kurt] said I should … Read the rest
As fall quarter winds down and the rush of finals gets into high gear, I find myself thinking broadly in terms of my place in the world and the economy instead of focusing in on linear algebra, fluid dynamics, and electromagnitism. A diet of Vaynerchuk, Godin, and Calacanis has me thinking about the future of technology and its place in whatever economy emerges from … Read the rest