Progress

A (short) work week.

We continue setting everything up at home. This week: VR in a clean(er) office.

Articles

• Neal.fun: Space Elevator
• The Universe of Discourse : I found the best anagram in English
• Seaflooding - by Tomas Pueyo - Uncharted Territories: What a weird and wonderful idea: let's create a lake by flooding below-sea-level areas in deserts.
• Thermal grill illusion - Wikipedia
• Index of Ice Experiments on Alcademics - Alcademics: how to make clear ice. I'll have to try this.
• GitHub - hendricius/the-sourdough-framework: Open source book dedicated to helping you to make the best possible sourdough bread at home.
• A Mutation Turned Ants Into Parasites in One Generation -- Quanta Magazine
• What were the worst jobs for poor Romans in Ancient Rome? - Quora
• Stability AI Releases StableStudio, the Open-Source Future of DreamStudio — Stability AI
• everyday life - Why is my dryer radioactive? - Physics Stack Exchange
• Google Photorealistic 3D Tiles & Unreal Engine – Nils Bakker
• Counterintuitive Properties of High Dimensional Space
• No, the King doesn't own all the swans in Britain: uh, well, actually, he kind-of does?!
• How Much Memory Do You Need to Run 1 Million Concurrent Tasks? -- Piotr Kołaczkowski

Libraries, programming, etc

• GitHub - dotnet/maui: .NET MAUI is the .NET Multi-platform App UI, a framework for building native device applications spanning mobile, tablet, and desktop.
• GitHub - s-JoL/Open-Llama: The complete training code of the open-source high-performance Llama model, including the full process from pre-training to RLHF.
• GitHub - autorope/donkeycar: Open source hardware and software platform to build a small scale self driving car.
• GitHub - ipyflow/ipyflow: Next-generation IPython kernel with reactivity, execution suggestions, syntax extensions, and more.
• Typer, build great CLIs. Easy to code. Based on Python type hints.: like click+rich+types. From the people at tiangolo, who seem to be doing all the stiff recently. Thank you to Olaf for the recommendation.

Games

• Sea of Thieves
• Superhot VR

Backlog

• Tchia (from waitlist)
• Operation: Tango (Humble Monthly)
• Rollerdrome (Humble Monthly)
• Life is Strange 2 (Humble Monthly)
• Founder's Fortune (Humble Monthly)

Recipes

• (accidentally vegan) Asia-inspired vegetable wok dish
• L&S&S

Other media

• DIY Flight Simulator Joystick - YouTube
• How Singapore Airlines Makes 50,000 In-Flight Meals A Day -- Big Business -- Insider Business - YouTube
• Who Releases 3,000 Pounds of Confetti on Times Square By Hand Every Year? - YouTube
• How to Identify a Seal -- William Burwin - YouTube
• The Explosive Power of Blanks at 82,000FPS - The Slow Mo Guys #slowmotion - YouTube
• How these impossibly thin cuts are made - YouTube
• The Steam Turbine: The Surprising Relationship of Engineering & Science - YouTube
• it's nesting season - YouTube: so silly
• The Statistics of Microwave Popcorn - YouTube: How to wait optimally for microwave popcorn with statistics and math and signal detection.
• Wind-Powered Waterslide! Storm Force 1 [NEW 2018] AquaMagis Plettenberg - YouTube
• How Belgium Nearly Invented The Internet - YouTube