Progress

Again, work. Excellent! I'm getting more used to working with the team and the technologies and I'm already thinking about some smaller side-projects I could do with my new knowledge.

Also, more progress on the contracting front, which is always great.

PlantEd

Planted on Monday, 11:00. Plants became visible on Thursday morning and are growing nicely. I'll produce a timelapse of the events once the experiment concludes.

I only had a few minutes to re-pot them, and I did a shoddy job. The plants are now colder and are not growing as well as before, one is pinched and will probably not survive, some others are bent. Well, this is quickly becoming a learning experience.

NTS

Had a short meeting with the team. One member made great progress, but not me.

Articles

• [2201.09621] Swelling, Softening and Elastocapillary Adhesion of Cooked Pasta: Finally, a way to perfectly time cooking pasta using only a ruler.
• Why Tensors? A Beginner's Perspective: Even though I am not a beginner, this article explains very nicely why tensors are all the latest rage (and how they relate to our favourite linear functions, matrices).
• How I Discovered Thousands of Open Databases on AWS: spoiler alert: by simply scanning for them.
• Why is it so hard to buy things that work well?: Note that this is not about buying things as a customer, but about buying services as a company.
• How on earth I became an entrepreneur - Deep South Ventures
• Eisenbahnunfall von Elsterwerda – Wikipedia: A massive train crash because some guy didn't correctly check the brakes on a train filled with fuel.
• The Operations Order Edition - Why is this interesting?: "the 5-Paragraph Operation Order or OPORD: more a communication model than a strictly mental one, the format ensures the leader communicates everything that's important- no more and no less. Intended to be read or briefed, it’s used across every branch of the US Army and Marine Corps at every level."
• Mushroom Fruiting Chamber Controller : 5 Steps (with Pictures) - Instructables
• Visualizing Black Holes with General Relativistic Ray Tracing – Sean's Projects: We had similar pictures some years back when Interstellar came out, didn't we?
• Collections: Nuclear Deterrence 101 – A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry: "If you're not worried, you're not paying attention."
• Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien – Wikipedia: "Worse than a crime, it was a mistake."
• The Zen Of Python, One-Liners and Being Pythonic – Pat Viafore
• Food for healthy life: A calculator for your life expectancy given your consumption of different kinds of foods. The science is sound and the findings are easy to digest, but the URL is sus AF. Via Jochens weeknotes.

Libraries, programming, etc

• Manim Community: Amazing math animations with python.
• Zipy.ai -- Fix What Matters!: "Debug instantly with Session Playback and Monitoring in one"

Books

After wondering what I should read next, I've loaded two new books on my phone: * Diaspora by Greg Egan * Mindbridge by Joe Haldeman

Games

Backlog

• In Sound Mind (from free EGS)

Recipes

• I'm trying a Caramilla this week, a sort of vegan Crème Brûlée. Not because I must, but because I can. It was good, but improvable. Adding a caramel note to the main pudding would be a good idea. Shallow bowls are important to add more surface caramel. Further research is needed.

Other media

• Matt Parker: Can we calculate 100 digits of π by hand? The William Shanks method
• The Problem with The Problem -- David Beazley: Excellent introduction to teaching programming and making things more complicated than necessary.